The 61-year-old Oscar-winning actress Michelle Yeoh recently accepted an interview with her friend and fellow Oscar-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow. In the interview, she admitted that the reason for divorcing her first husband was that she could not have children.
When her acting career just started, Michelle Yeoh married Dickson Poon, a Hong Kong businessman and owner of Debao Film Company. The outside world has always believed that the reason for Michelle Yeoh and Dickson Poon's divorce was that the woman wanted to come back to filming, but Michelle Yeoh said that was not the case. She said that in fact, after getting married, she focused on being someone else’s wife and worked hard to get pregnant and have children. “This is not the pressure my first husband put on me, but my own choice, because I know that between work and family, I just Choosing one, I wanted a real family life at that time."
She said that her ex-husband Pan Dickson really wanted a big family and needed a son to pass on his career. The marriage lasted for four years. During these four years, she tried various methods in the hope of giving birth to a son and a half daughters, but unfortunately she failed to do so. Michelle Yeoh said: "We love each other very much, but we have been together for almost ten years and have not been able to give birth to a child. The other party's huge business empire needs an heir, which cannot be achieved by falling in love. Now it seems that it is wise for us to separate. Divorce was hard, and it was the right thing for me to be able to leave (the marriage) and not pretend everything was going to be okay. Yes, we love each other, but forcing it wouldn't make our relationship better."
Pan Dickson's first wife was Yang Minde, a daughter of a wealthy family, and they had a daughter, Pan Chuying. In the interview, Michelle Yeoh talked about her relationship with Dickson Poon's ex-wife. She said with a smile that the two were like best friends. They would go abroad for vacations when they had time and accompany each other to attend events. "There are many things, as long as you know how to let go, it may be difficult at the moment. But in the end there will be good results."
Text | Reporter Shao Ziheng