“I can remember the morning she left, it’s weird the things you pick up.

The next day there was a telegram from England.

And then that was it.

Hugh Jackman smiling

I don’t think she thought for a second it would be forever.”

Jackman’s mother leaving hit Jackman hard.

“She was in hospital after I was born suffering frompostnatal depression,” he explained.

Hugh Jackman smiling

“There wasn’t a support internet for her here.”

Grace McNeil and Hugh Jackman embracing and laughing