“Widowed from Ahn Jae-hwan,” Chung Sun-hee: “After losing a loved one, I lived as if I were the protagonist of a tragedy” [Star Issue]

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Comedian Chung Sun-hee shared that she had been living as if she were the protagonist of a tragedy after losing someone she loved.

On the 6th, a video titled “How to Enjoyably Read Even Boring Books While Living a Godly Life Like Kim Young-chul (Follow Along)” was uploaded to the YouTube channel “Kim Young-chul Original.”

On that day, Kim Young-chul revealed that he deeply resonated with the book “Just One Word” by Chung Sun-hee and author Park Wan-soo. Introducing the book, Chung Sun-hee said, “There is a heartbreaking background behind why Park Wan-soo wrote this. She had four daughters and one son, but she lost her young son at age 26,” adding, “It is said that she poured out her emotions as if vomiting them up from the empty space left by her child who departed suddenly.”

Kim Young-chul noted that the book contains passages where author Park Wan-soo, who had lost her son, describes enjoying food in daily life while suffering.

Hearing this, Chung Sun-hee said, “That is the moment we first face self-loathing. After losing someone, the moment you feel emotions like ‘I am eating’ or ‘This rice is sweet and delicious,’ you fall into self-loathing. You begin to be consumed by the guilt of the living.”

Chung Sun-hee stated, “In this book, Park Wan-soo realizes that ‘I am not a great person’ in the moments when she continues her daily life of eating, vomiting, and forcing herself through it,” adding, “Park Wan-soo stayed briefly at a convent. While taking time to grieve her sorrow at the convent, she heard a young nun lamenting that her ‘younger brother caused an accident.’”

She continued, “Hearing the young nun say, ‘I live with the awareness that wishing my brother were not one who causes problems and only makes accidents is ultimately arrogance,’ made the back of her head feel prickly.”

Chung Sun-hee confessed, “We often think, ‘Why me?’, ‘Why do I have to endure this pain?’, ‘Why specifically me?’” and added, “I stayed angry at God for a long time and also felt betrayed.”

She then said, “But I came to wonder if there is sufficient reason for another person to receive misfortune. It is a problem we cannot simplify through calculation. In that moment, I felt a lightness,” adding, “I lived as if I were receiving the spotlight of sorrow and being the protagonist of a tragedy. I realized that belittling, mocking, and ridiculing myself alone in the midst of a life where others also live after losing loved ones is not a courtesy to life.”

Meanwhile, Chung Sun-hee married actor Ahn Jae-hwan in 2007 but was widowed the following year. It is known that Ahn Jae-hwan suffered from financial difficulties due to multiple debts during his lifetime.

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