Jackie Chan's mother was an opium smuggler and his father was a spy

One of the most interesting facts about Jackie Chan is about his parents. When Jackie Chan visited his father in Australia, he found that his mother, Lee-Lee Chan, was an opium dealer and a renowned gambler in Shanghai, while his father was previously a Nationalist agent and gangland boss.

According to some reports, Charles, a Chinese nationalist agent, fled from China to Hong Kong to escape the rival Communist Party and spent years in exile in Australia. His father, Charles met his mother after he detained Lee-Lee for smuggling opium—one of the ways she made money to maintain her two daughters from her previous husband, who perished in a Japanese bombing raid. She engaged in racketeering and gambling as well. Lee-Lee had the nickname of "Third Sister" in Shanghai's underworld and rose to fame as a great gambler.

After they got married, the Communists seized power in China. Charles left for Hong Kong, followed by his wife, who left their daughters from their prior marriage behind. Jackie Chan was raised in ignorance of his parents' past because they had constructed an entirely different life by the time he was born in 1954. The actor was the only one to learn the truth about his past during the documentary's filming.