‘Not enough’: A-list star’s sad confession

The hollywood actress has opened up on the biggest regret in her life, and in doing so shared a tragic personal tale.

Hollywood star Michelle Yeoh has opened up about the “biggest sadness” in her life.

Yeoh has shared insight into her first marriage to Dickson Poon, a Hong Kong entrepreneur and CEO, whom she wed in 1988.

While they were only married for three years, their short-lived life together became a hugely pivotal moment in Yeoh’s own personal journey for a heartbreaking reason.

Yeoh had originally decided to retire from her acting career so she could start a family with Poon.

Michelle Yeoh attends the Los Angeles premiere of Wicked. Photo: Amy Sussman/Getty Images.

“It was my choice. I felt that if I wanted this to work I had to give it my all. I’d had a good career, a good run of what I was doing. I was in a very good place and that is the time when you decide what is important. I really wanted to start a family,” said Yeoh.

However, the Oscar winner soon learned that despite her wishes, she was unable to carry children of her own.

“Maybe that is the biggest sadness in my life, that I cannot have kids,” she told The Times. “But the beauty is that I have six godchildren, many nephews and nieces.

“I have always given it my 110 per cent . I did everything to make it work, and sometimes even that is not enough,” she said, adding: “You have to learn to let go, and sometimes letting go helps you move forward.”

Yeoh is one of the stars of the musical Wicked. Photo: Gilbert Flores/Variety via Getty Images.

She went on to share that it led the end in her marriage, explaining: “I knew my ex really wanted a big family … not just one son, but two sons or three even better. He was working hard for a big empire and he needed sons to carry on his lineage.

“I don’t know how women in our line of work juggle being pregnant, having a baby, going back to work … I’m not a multi-tasker.”

Yeoh found her happy ending eventually when she married Jean Todt, a former Ferrari CEO, last year.

In January, she celebrated becoming a grandmother to her stepson’s child.

Meanwhile, Yeoh plays the role of headmistress Madame Morrible in the highly anticipated big-screen version of Wicked, which hits cinemas on November 21. It marks one of her first major roles since her Oscar winning turn in Everything Everywhere All At Once.