By Breaking Celebrity News Staff

Hugh Jackman has opened up about the devastating day his mother walked out on the family and never came back.

The Wolverine star shared the heart-wrenching details of the day his English-born mom left him and his four siblings without saying goodbye, to return to her homeland for good.

Aussie Jackman was just eight when his mom Grace, who had suffered post-natal depression, upped and left him, his two brothers, two sisters and his dad.

She broke the tragic news to them by telegraph the following day and Jackman said that it took him until he was about 13 years old to fully accept that she wasn’t coming back.

However Jackman, told Australia’s Women’s Weekly magazine that he is now reconciled with his mother but that as a child he was terrified that people treated him differently because his mom had walked.

The hunky 44-year-old Real Steel star told the magazine: "At the time it was difficult. 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.