Who is Jackie Chan’s estranged daughter, Etta Ng Chok-lam? The love child of the martial arts star and Elaine Ng, she married influencer Andi Autumn and once claimed to be ‘homeless’ in Hong Kong

Jul 4 , 2022

It may surprise some to learn that Etta Ng Chok-lam has never spent time with her famous dad, Jackie Chan. Photos: @ettazen, @jackiechan/Instagram

Chan may reportedly be worth US$400 million thanks to films like Rush Hour and Shanghai Noon, but his only daughter claims she was left homeless in 2018

Etta said she has ‘never wished to see her father’ and the two remain strangers, while her mother has her issues too, courting controversy due to ‘bad parenting’

Remember Jackie Chan’s infamous affair – and subsequent love child of the 90s?

Well, that “Little Dragon Girl”, as the media once called her, is all grown up now at 22. Born and raised in Hong Kong with a relatively private existence, Etta Ng Chok-lam is the child of Hollywood superstar Jackie Chan and former beauty queen Elaine Ng Yi-lei. The relationship between the three is complicated, and each one of them is no stranger to being the subject of headlines in local Hong Kong media.

In recent years though, Etta has openly criticised her celebrity parents through her social media channels, often making the remarks with her wife, Andi Autumn, by her side.

Etta Ng never speaks to her famous father Jackie Chan, and appears to have a tumultuous relationship with her mother Elaine Ng Yi-lei. Photo: @infostories/Instagram

But what do we know about the kung fu legend’s daughter, and what’s her relationship with her parents like now?

She was born out of wedlock

Jackie Chan and Elaine Ng in their youth – the actor’s extramarital affair became a huge scandal in the 90s. Photos: @jackiechan/Instagram, Handout

Jackie Chan rose to fame in Hong Kong in the late 70s, and made it big globally 20 years later with films such as Police Story, Who Am I?, Rush Hour and Shanghai Noon. He married Taiwanese actress Joan Lin in 1982, and the pair – who are now both 68 – remain together today.

However, in 1999, Chan found himself in hot water when he confirmed to the world that he’d had an affair with Elaine Ng Yi-lei, a beauty queen 19 years his junior, and that the 1990 Miss Asia winner was pregnant with their love child. According to various sources, Chan cut off contact from Ng when he found out the news.

Nevertheless, the actor and stuntman later admitted his regret in his memoir Never Grow Up, saying that he’d “screwed up royally”: “When the news broke about an affair I’d had that resulted in a love child, the media frenzy was like a bomb going off,” he said. “It wasn’t a mistake I could fix by saying, ‘I’m sorry.’”

Eventually, he apologised to his wife and son, Jaycee, who’s now 39, and “it was never mentioned again”. According to multiple reports, love child Etta didn’t know her father growing up, and she never took her biological dad’s last name.