Christine Ng, a Hong Kong actress, was just 21 when she decided to marry Yung Kuong Pui despite the 31-year age difference between them.
Yung, however, died of a heart attack just two weeks after the couple tied the knot. Christine, now 53, said Yung’s death left her devastated when she appeared on the Hong Kong TV show Bong Bong, Amigo! last Saturday (June 18).
She was informed of Kwong Pui’s critical condition while performing on stage in Shenzhen, China in December 1990 and immediately rushed to the hospital.
Christine admitted that she was scared when she saw medical staff perform cardiopulmonary resuscitations for Yung.
When she learned that Yung wouldn’t make it, Christine removed her wedding ring and shut her husband’s eyes with her hand, watching helplessly as he passed on.
But that wasn’t the end of her troubles.
“At that time, many people said I brought bad luck to my husband,” the Silver Chamber of Sorrows actress said. “There were a lot of unpleasant words as they vented all their negative energy on me.”
Christine quit her job after a half-year and took refuge at bars. She drank to soothe the pain. To make matters worse, Yung’s family did not let Christine inherit her deceased husband’s estate.
While the rest of the world believed the actress inherited HK$170 million (S$30 million), Christine shared that she only wanted a pen that Yung often used when he was alive and she wasn’t even allowed to have it.
According to Christine, a lawyer representing Yung’s family also contacted Christine multiple times to request that she hand over all properties and cars that Yung had bought her because his assets had apparently been frozen.
“He asked me a few times and I said I didn’t have any — he even told me to tell the truth,” Christine recounted, insisting that she really didn’t have any properties or cars to give.
The actress added: “It felt very painful — it’s terrible to be slandered by others.”
Christine said that she had known Yung long before she took part in the 1989 Miss Asia Pageant. In fact, it was Yung that encouraged Christine to participate in the competition.
She said that she loved him very much and wanted him to marry her and have children with her.
Christine came out of a decade-long lawsuit with Yung’s family in 2000 and was awarded HK$9 million.
This article was published for the first time in Asiaone.
Source: Her World
