Crocodile Dundee actor Paul Hogan recently commented on why he feels like he can’t come back to Australia despite missing ‘home.’
Paul Hogan, who is now 83, has been living in the US for more than two decades and often speaks about how he feels “homesick.” While talking with The Daily Telegraph, a conservative UK news outlet, Hogan expressed a certain disdain for the Venice Beach neighborhood he’s currently living in.
Hogan revealed that the main reason he remains in the US is that he believes his son, Chance Hogan, needs him to be there for him.
“I’ve been homesick for years,” he told the publication.
“I miss the people, the ambiance – and there’s something you just can’t put your finger on, but there’s something about Australia that is friendlier and more laid-back.
“I’d rather be there, but I have my last child [Chance] who is an American – he only has me, whereas my tribe at home, they’ve all got each other.”
Hogan first moved to the US in the 90’s with his wife Linda Kozlowski, the couple divorced in 2014.
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“Then the years have slipped by, and I’m sort of stuck here,” Hogan added.
“I’ve got 10 grandchildren and they are all adults – but for Chance, the only family he’s got is me. All his friends, his band, musician mates, girlfriends, everything – they’re all American.
“So I’m hanging in there a bit longer, but eventually I’ll get back.”
Hogan said he’d barely left his $4.5 million home in Venice Beach during the pandemic, which was factor among others for why he wants to go back to Australia.
“The crime’s up. I don’t go anywhere. The minute I can come home without being locked in a hotel for two weeks, I’m back,” he said.
“I’m surviving. I’m homesick, but I’ll be back for Christmas … Looking forward to the end of this stupid disease,” he said at the time.
