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Jack Nicholson grew up not knowing the truth about his family. His parents and siblings were not who he thought they were. Nicholson found his real mother at the age of 37. Jack Nicholson’s life story would make a good movie.
The legendary actor has been through a lot in his personal life. In fact, for 37 years, Nicholson was kept in the dark about the shocking truth about his family. Jack Nicholson’s family lied about who his mother was. For three decades, Jack Nicholson unknowingly lived a lie in his own home.
The woman he believed to be his sister… was his mother. And it goes even further: what he thought was his mother all those years was his grandmother. So what happened?
The Hollywood star was born in 1937. His mother June Frances Nicholson was then only 16 years old and unmarried. As a result, his grandmother pretended to be his mother to give her daughter June an everyday life.
So Jack Nicholson grew up believing that his grandmother Ethel was his mother and June was his older sister. The star of The Shining didn’t learn about his true origins for a very long time – in fact, for a whole 37 years. If Nicholson hadn’t become famous, he probably never would have learned the truth…
June, his 19-year-old sister, had quit her job as a dancer to pursue a career as an actress. When he was 17, Jack moved to Los Angeles to follow in his father’s footsteps.
June died of cancer in 1963, and Nicholson’s grandmother, Ethel, died seven years later.
Jack, however, bears them no bitterness.
“I didn’t have to deal with it with them,” he is reported as having said. “They were dead. I am the kind of person-what do I feel-and had the tools to know what I feel. Gratitude. I’ve often said about them: Show me any women today who could keep a secret, confidence, or intimacy to that degree, you got my kind of gal.”
Despite this long-held family secret, Jack has become one of the most well-known and successful actors ever.
It’s character-defining that he doesn’t blame his family for withholding information from him; it shows a level of understanding that few people have.
