“Told Them She Was My Wife”: Jackie Chan’s Ardent Fan Once Risked Her Life Pretending To Be Martial Arts Fame’s Partner

Published 12/07/2022, 2:45 PM EST

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One of the world’s greatest personalities, Jackie Chan, has a huge fan base. Chan’s impact as an actor is massive in the eastern and western parts of the world. His fans have done some of the craziest and most adorable things for him. However, there is one such incident that he has mentioned in his autobiography, ‘Never Grow Up’ by Zhu Mo.

Jackie Chan has acted in more than 150 movies. He entered the Hong Kong film industry as a stuntman and eventually became the most loved actor ever. Chan successfully cast his magic in Hollywood and other film industries globally.

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A fan claimed to be Jackie Chan’s wife

Being an actor with great looks, Jackie Chan had a larger fan following, especially among females. For an actor, it is great to acknowledge his fan’s craziness. However, there was an incident that he could never forget.

In his autobiography, Chan mentioned that while shooting in Hong Kong, a female fan would greet him with good luck wishes written on small notes. Initially, Jackie sweetly acknowledged them. However, soon it became very unusual. The context of those messages changed. They read, “I know can’t acknowledge me openly, but that’s alright, as long as you keep looking at me. I’ll know the connection between our hearts is still alive”.

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For Chan’s sake, his fan also learn Chinese and would write those messages in Chinese with some grammatical errors. Surprisingly, before her messages would begin from Yumiko, later changed to ‘Mrs. Chan’. She would introduce herself as Mrs. Chan in the studio. She was in Hong Kong on a tourist visa. Jackie’s fans would frequently visit Macau and return to Hong Kong.

However, at one point she stopped doing so. The police tracked her down, but she extended her visa, saying she was Jackie Chan’s wife. After several such instances, the police cleared the matter with Jackie’s office. Chan stated in his autobiography, “By the end, she started running out of money and was staying in worse and worse hotels. I knew she couldn’t go on like this, and I couldn’t bear to let her continue throwing her life away on a delusion.”

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His fan became obsessed with him and followed him everywhere he went. Chan knew it was quite abnormal. So, he sadly had to send her back to Macau.

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Muskan Sharma is a US Sports author for EssentiallySports. She has a degree in journalism and mass communication from the University of Calcutta. Muskan has worked as a writer for 3+ years but has a knack for filmmaking, too.
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