Joshua Jackson was on George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight and he talked about everything from Fringe to Dawson’s Creek to Pacey Con being his idea to recently catching up with Katie Holmes after she got divorced, but the biggest reveal came when he talked about his personal life.
Stroumboulopoulos told him a story about how when Billy Connolly was on the show, he shared an experience that happened to him. The story was that a woman came up to him and he asked if she wanted an autograph. She then said she was his mother. After Stroumboulopoulos shared that with Jackson, the Fringe star said he had a similar experience. He was doing a play in London and one night the stage manager said a man was there claiming to be his estranged dad. Jackson thought it was just someone some wacko saying they were the man he hadn’t seen in 20 years, but when the manager gave him some of the details that guy gave him he realized the man was actually his father. The two had an awkward meeting, as one would expect.
I can’t even imagine how weird that must’ve been for him and how strange it must be to him to this day. I mean his expression when Stroumboulopoulos told the Connolly story says it all.
