63-year-old Golden Horse Award-winning actress Chen Chong, who played Empress Ulanara in "Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace," recently gave an interview to the American magazine "People," where she spoke for the first time about being sexually assaulted while studying in the U.S. However, netizens dug up her past controversial history, accusing her of adopting twin daughters in China because of infertility and then abandoning them after successfully conceiving.
Chen Chong revealed her experience of being sexually assaulted by a school doctor during her college years in the United States, stating that she never told anyone about it, not even family or friends, as if she had denied it to herself. "It was a shame that I consciously wanted to forget. I originally just wanted to write about some memories of when I first arrived in America, but as I was writing, it all came up."
Chen Chong recounted that at the age of 19, she developed a rash and went to the school's medical office. A doctor in his 30s asked her to undress for a check-up. Hesitantly, she asked which clothes to remove, and he said all of them. Reluctantly complying, she was shocked when the doctor opened the curtain to bring in another man in a doctor's coat. Being young at the time, her mind went blank. Years later, she realized that what happened in the school's medical office was sexual assault, and this experience became a psychological trauma that she had sealed away.
In 1991, Chen Chong met American-Chinese doctor Peter Hui and got married. Unable to conceive for a long time, they decided to adopt twin daughters from China. The sisters were born in 1996 and stayed in an orphanage in Nanning, Guangxi. Chen Chong returned from the U.S. to China to bring the children, but after completing the adoption process, she unexpectedly became pregnant, giving birth to her first daughter in 1999 and the second three years later. In the U.S., having biological children doesn't suppress the care for adopted ones, but Chen Chong's twin daughters suddenly disappeared from her life. Reportedly, she later "transferred" them to a wealthy couple in New York for adoption. This act remains a piece of Chen Chong's history that she has been unable to confront authentically.
Source: United Daily News