Before he was a Hollywood legend, Jack Nicholson was a Jersey boy, raised in the town of Neptune City by window dresser John Joseph Nicholson and beautician Ethel May. But in 1974, an interviewer for Time Magazine revealed a family secret that the then-37-year-old actor couldn’t have anticipated: June, the woman he thought was his sister, was actually his birth mother. And the people he believed were his parents? Were really his grandparents. By the time Nicholson discovered the truth, both June and May were dead.
