Hugh Jackman cries on CBS 60 Minutes

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In a recent TV interview with 60 Minutes Sunday, the Australian actor, Hugh Jackman opened up about his childhood. Talking about the day his mother left their home in Australia for the UK brought the 'Les Miserables' actor to tears.

"I can remember the morning she left, it's weird the things you pick up," Jackman said with tears in his eyes.

"I remember her being in a towel around her head and saying goodbye, must have been the way she said goodbye. As I went off to school, when I came back, there was no one there in the house."

"The next day there was a telegram from England, Mom was there. And then that was it. I don't think she thought for a second it would be forever. I think she thought it was, 'I just need to get away, and I`ll come back.'"

The loss of his mother brought him and his siblings closer to their father, Chris. Jackman was the youngest of five and Chris took full responsibility for raising them. In the interview he said,"Dad used to pray every night that Mom would come back."

"My father is a rock. My father is my rock. It's where I learned everything about loyalty, dependability, being there day in, day out, no matter what."

Hugh and his siblings only saw their mother once a year and the whole experience, and his relationship with his parents instilled in him strong family values.

“It’s always about the family,” he said, speaking of his father: “It’s not about work and I think that’s him living with probably some of his regrets. And feelings of maybe he at the wrong time put too much in his career. And he doesn’t want me to make me that mistake. In his gentle way, he always reminds me this the most important thing.”

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Hugh Jackman reveals that he was abandoned by his Mother at Age of 8

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One of the main things I remember is that horrible feeling that people were talking about you and looking at you because it was odd for the mother to leave,' he told the Australian Women's Weekly.

He was '12 or 13' when it dawned on him that his mother would never return home.

The star revealed his secret pain in the Australian Women's Weekly magazine After his parents divorced, his sisters, Zoe and Sonia, moved to England to live with their mother. The actor and his brothers, Ralph and Ian, stayed on in Sydney, Australia, with their father, Chris.

Still, Jackman never questioned his mother's love for him. 

'The thing I never felt - and I know this might sound strange - I never felt that my mum didn't love me,' he explained. 'I've spoken about it at length with her since and I know she was struggling. 'She was in hospital after I was born suffering from post-natal depression. There wasn't a support network for her here.'

The star, who has two children, Oscar, 12, and Ava, 7, with his wife Deborra-lee Furness, 56, says he was able to forgive his mother when he became a parent himself.

'There comes a certain point in life when you have to stop blaming other people for how you feel or the misfortunes in your life,' the star says. 

'You can't go through life obsessing about what might have been.'

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