The actor discovered the truth about his family at the age of 37, in 1974, shortly before the release of “Chinatown”. Jack Nicholson said it was “the most shocking thing” he had ever heard in his life.
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The Hollywood star, born in 1937 in Neptune, New Jersey, spent his entire life believing that the woman who raised him was his mother, but in reality, she was his grandmother.
Jack Nicholson’s real mother was the woman he believed to be his sister.
The story was uncovered while journalists from Time were preparing a profile report about the actor.
The biological mother of Jack Nicholson, June Nicholson, was 18 years old when she became pregnant, but his father, a man named Don, was already married. His grandmother, Ethel May, raised him as her own son.
June was introduced to Nicholson as his sister, as was June’s sister, Lorraine.
Now 88 years old, Jack Nicholson doesn’t talk much about the subject.
In an interview with Rolling Stone in 1986, he said he had traveled to Los Angeles to meet June, without knowing the true nature of their relationship.
“Since my only relative in the world was June, who was here, I came to take a look,” he recalled.
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