Take a seat, Jackie Chan fans: Riveting revelations abound in a three-page letter said to have been penned by Jaycee Chan to his Mum while holed up in detention.
For starters, it looks like Jaycee is finally ‘fessing up to some hard-hitting Daddy issues – which may just have shaved time off his jail sentence for drug-related shenanigans.
So what did the letter to Mummy dearest contain? A fair bit of finger-pointing and navel-gazing, apparently: The prodigal son says he suffers from “insufficient love” from his detached Dad, and that it was the prospect of forever cowering in the supersized shadow of his father which ultimately drove Jaycee to his current sorry state of affairs. The 32-year-old signed off by swearing to sober up in the slammer.
And if Hong Kong gossip rag Apple Daily is to be believed, Jaycee’s suitably penitent postcard was cited by a Beijing court as sufficient “proof” of his remorse – enough to warrant slashing his two-year sentence for marijuana possession to just six months.
Does Jaycee’s cannily timed sob story pass the smell test? To be fair, this is the boy who spent his childhood being cold-shouldered by his action hero father, who was apparently unwilling to risk alienating his fans by disclosing his paternal status.
Then there’s the widely reported public denouncement by Jackie Chan himself, who said he was “very angry” and would not be bailing out his son. That has got to suck, right?
In any case, the relatively lenient sentence means Jaycee will be officially jail-free come February 14 this year – in time for some Valentine’s Day father-son bonding, we hope. Stay strong, kiddo, see you out and about in a bit!