Jackie Chan's estranged daughter suspected to have attempted suicide
HONG KONG: Rumours have it that Etta Ng, the estranged daughter of Jackie Chan, may have attempted to commit suicide after she checked herself into a hospital.
According to reports, the Chan family has been undergoing filial crisis for the past few weeks and this might have prompted Etta to take matters into her own hand.
After her mother Elaine Ng was arrested for the second time, Etta was said to have left Hong Kong on Friday Mar 31 for a Thailand getaway with her mother’s friends. However, she decided to cut the trip short, secretly returning to Hong Kong two days later and checking into a hospital soon after landing.
When asked by Oriental Daily if Etta had tried to kill herself, Ng did not reply, only sighing and saying “I’m really sorry.”
Posts that Etta has made on her social media accounts in the past have raised concerns about the teen’s mental health. According to Asia One, before leaving for her Thailand trip, Etta wrote on Facebook: “Leaving HK for a bit tomorrow. I’m still alive, for those who are wondering.” Additionally, last year she shared a number of articles about depression and suicide on social media, Ming Pao reports.
Last month, Ng was detained after allegedly fighting with some of Etta’s friends. Ng later said that the dispute started when she found a packet of sedatives in her daughter’s room.
Ng was first arrested last year after her daughter accused her of child abuse. Later, Etta explained that she had reported her mother because she was worried about her drinking problem.
Etta was born in 1999. She was raised in Shanghai before moving to Hong Kong with her mother in 2011. She has never had a relationship with her father, calling him “just a stranger,” in a 2015 interview.
For his part, Chan admitted that his affair with former beauty queen Ng had been a mistake, saying that he had “only committed a fault that many men in the world commit.” Ng decided to raise Etta on her own, and Chan has said that he doesn’t plan to leave anything in his will to his daughter.
Chan married Taiwanese actress Joan Lin back in 1982. The couple have one son, Jaycee Chan, who infamously was arrested in 2014 when police raided his Beijing apartment, seizing more than 100 grams of marijuana. He was later sentenced to six months imprisonment.