Jason Donovan

It's had fractious times, but it's on a sort of a good keel now.

I think, you know, I understand that she, you know, there's been –

A lot of issues in the past.

I think, and you will find this with family and kids, and there's sort of a, not a change in the guard, but a change in the generations where, you know, certain people, I'm the oldest.

I'm the oldest.

I'm the only one from my parents' marriage, but I have three stepsisters from my mother's subsequent marriage and one brother from my dad's subsequent marriage.

that all the old problems tend to sort of disappear a little bit and your parents almost become your children.

Yes, this is what happens.

That is sort of what happens, not just psychologically but physically, you know.

Funny enough, my grandmother, a lady called Joan, who was my mum's mother, played a big part in my upbringing.

Yeah.

Even though my mother and I didn't see a lot of each other.

You know, it's difficult.

She started another life with someone else, lived in a different part of town in Melbourne.

But in the same town?

In the same town, yeah.

Wow.

Yeah.

I mean, a lot of people would say –

You know, there's issues that probably haven't been resolved as a result of particularly maybe a mum leaving.