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I’ve had enough of you, Edison Chen, says sex-photos victim
Cecilia Cheung Pak-chi yesterday broke her silence on last year’s internet sex-photos scandal - using a TV interview to launch a blistering attack on the star at the centre of it, Edison Chen Koon-hei.
I’ve had enough of you, Edison Chen, says sex-photos victim
Martin Wong 28 February 2009
Cecilia Cheung Pak-chi yesterday broke her silence on last year’s internet sex-photos scandal - using a TV interview to launch a blistering attack on the star at the centre of it, Edison Chen Koon-hei.
Addressing her words to the exiled actor, she said: “I’ve had enough of you. You are now talking about justice and you want to protect us? I am very disappointed ... You are lying with your eyes wide open.”
She told her interviewer: “He has done nothing. The photos are still circulating online. How can we live a healthy and happy life? How can we put ourselves back on our feet?”
The actress recorded the interview for iCable on Thursday after Chen testified before a Hong Kong magistrate in a Vancouver court ahead of the trial of computer technician Sze Ho-chun, accused of leaking nude photos of the actor with eight actresses and singers - all former lovers.
She said she had chosen not to speak to the media until now - or, as she put it, had “sentenced herself to jail” - not out of shame but because she believed she had to shoulder the blame for her own actions. She had decided to come out now because of Chen’s words in Vancouver, she said.
Chen, 28, said in court: “I am determined to protect [the girls’] innocence. They have suffered enough.” Outside court, he said: “I hope every one of the victims can become healthy again and be happy again.”
During the hearing, Chen for the first time identified Cheung, Gillian Chung Yan-tung, Bobo Chan Man-woon and Rachel Ngan Wing-sze as being among the women featured in the hundreds of photos uploaded to the internet 13 months ago from a laptop computer Chen had taken for repair.
Cheung, who at several points during the interview was on the verge of tears, accused Chen of pretending to be kind and merciful.
“He has never apologised to us personally and only says it to the public,” she said.
She said her manager had called Chen immediately after getting wind of the photos’ release. “But he merely said he was in a meeting, dealing with the incident, and would call us soon, before hanging up. Then he turned the phone off,” Cheung told iCable.
“He should at least have called us to say sorry if he genuinely admitted his mistake,” she said.
Recalling the night she knew the photos were circulating, Cheung, who is married to actor Nicholas Tse Ting-fung - they have a baby son, Lucas - said: “I was so scared ... I went to my son’s room - he was then seven or eight months old - and I hugged him.
“I was so frightened I do not know how to describe it. My legs turned to jelly. I nearly lost my balance.
“But then I thought to myself that if I, as an adult, could not get back on my feet, how could a helpless child stand on his own? I yelled, ‘I have to stand up for the sake of my son’.”
Asked what else she wanted to say to Chen, she said: “Please respect us women. Please give us dignity. We have suffered so much.
“You should not have come out [now] ... saying one thing but doing another in a bid to win the public’s forgiveness whilst hurting us.”
Cheung said she had received the unconditional support of her whole family, including her parents-in-law Deborah Lee and Patrick Tse Yin.
“I only cried two or three times because of the incident, and then not because of myself but the worries my family have had to bear,” she said.
Meanwhile, Chen was in Singapore yesterday to take part in a promotional event for a fast food chain.
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I’ve had enough of you, Edison Chen, says sex-photos victim
Martin Wong
28 February 2009
Cecilia Cheung Pak-chi yesterday broke her silence on last year’s internet sex-photos scandal - using a TV interview to launch a blistering attack on the star at the centre of it, Edison Chen Koon-hei.
Addressing her words to the exiled actor, she said: “I’ve had enough of you. You are now talking about justice and you want to protect us? I am very disappointed ... You are lying with your eyes wide open.”
She told her interviewer: “He has done nothing. The photos are still circulating online. How can we live a healthy and happy life? How can we put ourselves back on our feet?”
The actress recorded the interview for iCable on Thursday after Chen testified before a Hong Kong magistrate in a Vancouver court ahead of the trial of computer technician Sze Ho-chun, accused of leaking nude photos of the actor with eight actresses and singers - all former lovers.
She said she had chosen not to speak to the media until now - or, as she put it, had “sentenced herself to jail” - not out of shame but because she believed she had to shoulder the blame for her own actions. She had decided to come out now because of Chen’s words in Vancouver, she said.
Chen, 28, said in court: “I am determined to protect [the girls’] innocence. They have suffered enough.” Outside court, he said: “I hope every one of the victims can become healthy again and be happy again.”
During the hearing, Chen for the first time identified Cheung, Gillian Chung Yan-tung, Bobo Chan Man-woon and Rachel Ngan Wing-sze as being among the women featured in the hundreds of photos uploaded to the internet 13 months ago from a laptop computer Chen had taken for repair.
Cheung, who at several points during the interview was on the verge of tears, accused Chen of pretending to be kind and merciful.
“He has never apologised to us personally and only says it to the public,” she said.
She said her manager had called Chen immediately after getting wind of the photos’ release. “But he merely said he was in a meeting, dealing with the incident, and would call us soon, before hanging up. Then he turned the phone off,” Cheung told iCable.
“He should at least have called us to say sorry if he genuinely admitted his mistake,” she said.
Recalling the night she knew the photos were circulating, Cheung, who is married to actor Nicholas Tse Ting-fung - they have a baby son, Lucas - said: “I was so scared ... I went to my son’s room - he was then seven or eight months old - and I hugged him.
“I was so frightened I do not know how to describe it. My legs turned to jelly. I nearly lost my balance.
“But then I thought to myself that if I, as an adult, could not get back on my feet, how could a helpless child stand on his own? I yelled, ‘I have to stand up for the sake of my son’.”
Asked what else she wanted to say to Chen, she said: “Please respect us women. Please give us dignity. We have suffered so much.
“You should not have come out [now] ... saying one thing but doing another in a bid to win the public’s forgiveness whilst hurting us.”
Cheung said she had received the unconditional support of her whole family, including her parents-in-law Deborah Lee and Patrick Tse Yin.
“I only cried two or three times because of the incident, and then not because of myself but the worries my family have had to bear,” she said.
Meanwhile, Chen was in Singapore yesterday to take part in a promotional event for a fast food chain.
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