‘ How I learned to TRUST AGAIN

On August 23, Hugh Jackman shared an intimate image to Instagram that showed the actor beaming while wrapping his arm around his mum, Grace McNeil. While the picture might have looked like one of the thousands of fun family snaps that were shared on social media that day, the pair’s megawatt grins showed just how far their relationship has come since the star’s “traumatic” childhood.

Jackman, 52, was just 8 years old when he came home from school to find his mother had left. McNeil had back to her native UK without saying a word. She left a devastated Jackman behind in Sydney with his dad Chris and four older siblings, Ralph, Ian, Sonya and Zoe (his sisters would later join their mum in England afterstar told . “The next day there was a telegram from England, mum was there. And then that was it. Dad used to pray every night that Mum would come back,” he explained.