{"id":624,"date":"2010-11-29T03:00:51","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T11:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=624"},"modified":"2013-06-09T18:58:59","modified_gmt":"2013-06-10T01:58:59","slug":"jack-nicholsons-supposed-sister-was-actually-his-mother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/11\/jack-nicholsons-supposed-sister-was-actually-his-mother\/","title":{"rendered":"The Woman Jack Nicholson Thought Was His Sister Was His Mother"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Today I found out<\/a> that the woman Jack Nicholson thought was his sister for a good portion of his life, turned out to be his mother.<\/p>\n

In 1974, Jack Nicholson’s movie Chinatown<\/em> was opening in theaters and Time Magazine chose to do a cover story on him.\u00a0 Someone working at Time Magazine called Jack up to verify some facts that would be in the article; among these, was the fact that the person who he’d thought was his sister, June Nicholson, was in fact his mother.\u00a0 Nicholson knew nothing about this, so denied it.\u00a0 At this point his “sister” was dead, and so was his “mother”, dying in 1963 and 1970 respectively.<\/p>\n

He did, however, call up his “brother-in-law”, Shorty, the husband of his supposed other sister who was in fact his aunt, to verify that this wasn’t true.\u00a0 Shorty knew nothing about this, so told him that it wasn’t true and they ended the conversation.\u00a0 Several hours later though, he got a phone call from Shorty: “Jack, it’s Shorty, I’m gonna put Lorraine on the phone.\u00a0 I just want to say one thing – she’s been crying all night.\u00a0 Here she is.”\u00a0 Lorraine, who he now found out was his aunt, not his sister, then told him his mother was in fact the deceased June, who he had thought was his sister and the woman he had thought was his mother, was in fact his grandmother.<\/p>\n

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Nicholson was 37 years old at this point and both his real mother and the woman he had thought was his mother, were already dead;\u00a0 both had chosen not to tell him.\u00a0 Indeed, he even spent time with his “sister”, who was his mother, at the hospital just before she died.\u00a0 He was filming one of his first movies at the time and shooting in Mexico, so he had to leave her as he desperately needed the money and it was his first major film.\u00a0 Her last words to him were “Should I wait?” and he said “No” and left.\u00a0 She died shortly thereafter succumbing to cancer; he got the call when he arrived in Mexico on location.<\/p>\n

The initial reason for keeping up this charade was that his mother, June, had gotten pregnant with him at the age of 16 with someone unknown (he still doesn’t know, but doesn’t care to find out either).\u00a0 June’s mother wanted June to continue to pursue her promising dancing career, thus she would take care of Jack posing as his mother, with June as his sister.<\/p>\n

Nicholson is on record actually as saying he’s glad they kept this secret to their graves, “I didn\u2019t have to deal with it with them. They were dead.”; “I am that kind of person-what do I feel-and had the tools to know what I feel. Gratitude. I\u2019ve often said about them: Show me any women today who could keep a secret, confidence, or an intimacy to that degree, you got my kind of gal.”<\/p>\n

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