I've Finally Got My Mom Back!
Woman's Day Australia|24 April 2017

The actor puts his tortured past behind him writes ZARA ZUBEIDI.

ZARA ZUBEIDI
I've Finally Got My Mom Back!

At first glance, it looks the perfect portrait of a mother and son enjoying some quality time together – but behind Hugh Jackman and Grace McNeil’s happy smiles is a heartbreaking history of abandonment, and one the actor has only now finally learnt to live with.

Over the past decade, Hugh, 48, has worked hard to repair his fractured relationship with his mum who, in a shock move, walked out on him, his four siblings – Ian, Ralph, Zoe and Sonia – and their father, Christopher, when Hugh was just eight years old.

As well as cooking up a storm with Grace earlier this month – the pair baked cashew flapjacks – Hugh was spotted treating his mum to dinner at London’s swanky Chiltern Firehouse in February. Grace was also in the audience when he appeared on The Graham Norton Show to promote his final turn as Wolverine, alongside Star Trek favourite Patrick Stewart.

On top of bonding with her son, the loving grandma often spends time with Hugh recently posted this shot saying, “Mum’s visiting, which means flapjacks!”

Hugh’s two children, Oscar, 16, and Ava, 11, with the actor revealing the family get together “three or four times a year”.

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