In the February issue of The Hollywood Reporter, actor Hugh Jackman said his wife is bothered whenever she hears people talking about her husband being gay.

The Wolverine star spoke candidly about how gay rumors, which are untrue, have affected his relationship with his wife Deborra-Lee Furness. The couple has been married for 16 years.

The Les Miserables star said that tackling these rumors is especially hard on Furness, and his wife continues to ask him why TV shows and magazines constantly talk about it when there is no basis for it.

"Just recently, it bugs her," he said. "She goes, 'It's big. It's everywhere!'" 

Unlike most celebrities, Jackman does not spend a great amount of time apart from his family when shooting for a film. In fact, the first time he was away from his wife was during the making of Les Miserables, for which the actor earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. Jackman and Furness also have two children - Oscar, 12, and Ava, 7.

Lauren Shuler Donner, producer for Jackman's action film X-Men, also denied the gay rumors.

"I have seen him with Deborra since the beginning of their trip to Hollywood, and I've been on five movie sets with him and have never seen him stray, have never seen him eye anyone," Donner told the publication. "I met him when he did Oklahoma! [at London's Royal National Theatre in 1999]. He was genuine, hugely talented. He was in love with his wife that day and still is."

Jackman and Furness, who is 13 years his senior, first met on the set of Correlli, a TV series that was set in a prison.

The actor recalled how meeting Furness was better than his single life.

"She was very beautiful. She was unbelievably fun-this energy, this spirit-irrepressible. And she had a confidence in herself. I had a massive crush on her instantly," Jackman said.

When Jackman was asked if whether he will continue the X-Men series after just finishing the sixth installment, he did not give a clear response, stating that he prefers to spend some time with his family and especially his son who has dyslexia.