Sue McIntosh reveals that her famous son no longer speaks to her after ‘betraying’ his family to make millions, Rose Fydler reports.
Jason Donovan’s mum Sue McIntosh was home alone in Melbourne the day she found out she was going to be a grandmother for the third time. In what would be a surreal moment for most people, Sue heard the news from a radio bulletin rather than an excited phone call from her son, the dad-to-be.
But from him, there has been only silence. Former Neighbours star Jason lives in London with wife Angela and children Jemma and Zac and has shut his mother out of his life.
“Jason and I haven’t spoken for three years – not since his visit to Australia in 2007 to publicise his autobiography. Nor was I invited to his wedding,” reveals Sue, a former TV news presenter who divorced Jason’s father, actor Terence Donovan, nearly four decades ago.
“I’m thrilled to bits for them that they’re having another baby, because Ange is a really normal and nice person who has grounded Jason, and the children they have are beautiful. But, the way things are, I’ve become used to finding out things like that in the media.”
A devastated Sue blames Jason’s book – Between The Lines: My Story Uncut – for the rift that has torn her family apart. “I was appalled and upset by his book. It was a cruel effort on Jason’s part and I told him that in the last conversation we had.
