On October 2, 2008, the news that South Korea's 39-year-old "National Queen of Heaven" Choi Jin-jin hanged himself shocked the South Korean people.
Her death was contagious, and in the years after her death, her brother and ex-husband committed suicide one after another, at the same age as Cui Zhen, who was 39 years old.
Her last agent also committed suicide due to depression.
About her deeds are bizarre and strange, most of the people who have a close relationship with her have tragic endings, and the Korean media once used "Choi's real curse" to describe her deeds.
Cui Zhen's family is also known as the "cursed family".
If Choi Jin is still alive, she will turn 54 this year, and according to her strength, she should now be a Korean national treasure actor.
The younger generation may think she is unfamiliar, but her national status in South Korea is the level of diva, and she is the star of the first wave of Hallyu that spread throughout Asia.
In 1988, the 20-year-old Choi Jin-jin made his official debut in the historical drama "500 Years of the Joseon Dynasty".
At the age of 22, he won the Blue Dragon Film and Popularity Double Award for "Southern Army".
From 1990 to 1997, Cui Zhen won the Best Newcomer Actress, Popular Star, Best Acting Award, Film Queen and other awards in seven years, and she won 17 acting awards in seven years, a record that has not yet been broken by an actress.
Cui Zhen is a real film, TV two blossoms, in addition to the appearance of pure, very affinity she is also the queen of advertising, in her 20s, Cui Zhen ushered in the peak of her career.
In 1997, a collaboration with Ahn Jae-wook on "The Adventure of a Dream" pushed Choi's career to a new level.
Choi Jin-jin became a South Korean star who became popular throughout Asia.
Later, K-pop stars such as Song Hye-joo, Kim Hee-sun, Jeon Ji-hyun and Lee Young-ae, who were popular throughout Asia, had to call her predecessors.
It is worth mentioning that this Korean drama that tells the story of Cinderella is the first Korean drama officially introduced by the mainland, and the later "Blue Life and Death Love" will be ranked behind it, which opened the era of Chinese people watching Korean dramas.
In the same year, she and Song Seung-hyun starred in "The Most Loved One is You" in South Korea with a rating of 61%, such a strong performance made Choi Tru become a national diva.
Ten years after his debut, Cui Zhen can be described as a star and a frank path, with remarkable achievements.
However, under this appearance, there are also many risks and crises hidden, and Cui Zhenzhen has even been involved in murder cases.
Cui Zhen's ability to become popular is not unrelated to her agent Pei Bingshu.
However, the agent was brutally murdered in 1994 by Cui Zhenzhen's driver, which caused an uproar, and Cui Zhenzhen was also summoned by the police as an eyewitness, and the driver was eventually sentenced to 25 years in prison.
The agent was killed, and Cui Zhenzhen himself has encountered many dangers.
In 1995, Cui Zhen suffered a car accident, and in 2000, he encountered an elevator kidnapping case and was almost kidnapped by gangsters.
After entering the 30-year-old Cui Zhen also began to face the crisis of her career, the number of roles to choose was reduced, she encountered a bottleneck, and she chose to die in the desire for marriage and family.
In 2000, Choi Jin-jin and Cho Sung-min held a grand wedding, and the guests present were the top artists in the Korean circle.
Zhao Chengmin, a professional baseball player 5 years younger than Cui Zhen, met in 1998 on a variety show, and the two had been secretly dating for two years before getting married.
After the marriage, the two ushered in a pair of children, and Cui Zhen lived the life of a husband and a godson.
The media once called their combination the most perfect combination in the field of style, and perhaps they also thought so.
Beautiful fairy tales generally end with the male and female protagonists living happily together after marriage.
However, real life is not a fairy tale, and reality is much harsher.
Growing up in a single-parent family, cui Zhenzhen, who was poor in childhood and tasted the cold and warmth of the world, was not cured in this marriage.
Less than two years after the marriage, the news of Cui Zhen's domestic violence continued to come out.
After Cui Zhen gave birth to his eldest son, Zhao Chengmin was frustrated by an accidental injury and had to choose to retire, so he lost his business resources and his income plummeted.
Since then, Zhao Chengmin's temperament has changed greatly, and he no longer has the gentleness and elegance of the past, but is furious at every turn.
Zhao Chengmin, who has high self-esteem and a nest, transferred all this anger to Cui Zhen's body, and if he did something slightly unpleasant, he punched and kicked Cui Shunshi.
In order to give her children a complete family, Cui Shunshi still chose to be patient, but her tolerance did not exchange for her husband's introspection, but intensified.
A month before Cui Zhenzhen's second child was about to give birth, her husband also punched and kicked her and pushed her down the stairs, causing her to almost miscarry.
The unbearable Cui Zhen ran back to his mother's house to raise a fetus, but her husband still refused to let him go, ran to her mother's house to beat her, beat Cui Zhen into the hospital, and he also beat Cui Zhen's brother together.
The former national queen of heaven was beaten to the nose and blue face, and the public looked distressed and angry, even so Cui Zhen still did not choose to divorce.
So condescending and seeking perfection, she still did not save her husband's heart, Zhao Chengmin unilaterally announced her divorce, no matter how she pleaded, Zhao Chengmin did not change her mind.
After hearing that Zhao Chengmin already had a new love, she completely agreed to the divorce.
In 2004, the two formally divorced, ending a four-year marriage.
But when it comes to the custody of the child, the two people have a serious disagreement, Cho Sung-min fights with her for custody, and in order to get the custody of the two children, Choi Real paid Cho Sung-min 187 million won.
Zhao Chengmin, who got a huge amount of money, happily flew with Xinhuan, and Cui Zhen moved to his mother's big house with his two children to start a new life.
The tragic marriage experience made Cui Zhen deeply realize that the closest lovers may betray you, and only the career can be relied on, so she returned to the show business and restarted the acting career.
At the age of 35, her life experience is more abundant, her grasp of the role is more accurate, and the bottleneck before retirement no longer exists for her, and she is directly transformed.
In 2005, Cui Zhen starred in "Rose Life" as an untidy woman who was crazy for love, domestic violence and divorced.
This drama has a partial overlap with her own life experience, and many people have said that Cui Zhen is the true color after watching it.
With his outstanding acting skills, Cui Zhen effortlessly won the Best Acting Award of the Baeksang Arts Awards and returned to the ranks of the Queen of Heaven.
In 2008, with "The Last Scandal of My Life", Cui Zhen won the Qinglong Popular Star Award and the Special Merit Award of the Acting Award, and re-entered the peak of his acting career.
Everything was moving in a good direction, but the next suicide and what happened to a good friend dragged her straight to hell.
On September 8, 2008, South Korean media broke out a suicide case that shocked the entertainment industry: actor Ahn Jae-hwan committed suicide by burning honeycomb coal in a car parked in Seoul's residence alley, and there were suicide notes and three bottles of shochu at the scene, and the body showed signs of corruption.
Based on clues provided by residents, police speculated that Ahn Jae-hwan's death was 10 days ago, and preliminarily concluded that it was suicide.
After the incident, the police informed Ahn Jae-hwan's wife, Jeong Sun-hee, and she hurried to the hospital where her husband was placed.
However, Jeong Sun-hee is not the first to arrive at the hospital, but Choi Jin-jin. (This is a very important detail, which will be mentioned later)
Chung Sun-hee, who was recording the show that day, received a call from the police, and she did not dare to identify the body, but asked Choi Soon-sil and Lee Dai-young to go on their behalf.
Ahn Jae-hwan and Jeong Sun-hee have been friends in Choi-jin's circle for many years, and Jeong Sun-hee is also one of Choi's bridesmaids at Real's wedding.
What Jeong Sun-hee did not expect was that his unintentional move would push Cui Zhen into a dangerous situation in the future.
At that time, there were many voices about Ahn Jae-hwan's death, such as why her husband disappeared for nearly half a month, why her wife, who had just been married for a year, did not feel any abnormality, Ahn's father raised the issue of handwriting in his son's suicide note, and Ahn Jae-hwan's creditor's statement.
However, according to the investigation of the South Korean police, An Jae-hwan committed suicide, probably because of the financial shortage of entrepreneurial failure, resulting in excessive psychological and mental pressure, and later borrowed usurious loans and could not repay, and finally embarked on the road to suicide.
As a good friend of the couple, Choi Zhen often speaks in place of Jeong Sun-hee, who is in a bad mental state, and is also busy with Ahn Jae-hwan's aftermath, and this move has been recorded by the media and has become "evidence" pointing to her in the future.
Choi Real falls at Ahn Jae-hwan's funeral
Meanwhile, posts on a forum in South Korea are fermenting.
The post reads that the person who forced Ahn Jae-hwan to the end of the road was Choi Jin-jin, who began to make loan sharks very early on and lent him when An Jae-hwan was depressed.
Cui Zhen was the first to rush to the hospital because he was worried that he would not receive the money and went to confirm the identity of the deceased.
This post is very really packaged, all kinds of details are pinched accurately, coupled with Choi's words and deeds since An Jae-hwan's accident, South Korean netizens have begun to speculate, and rumors have spread more and more violently.
The instigated netizens frantically insulted her, demanded that she retreat, and even said that she was the murderer who indirectly forced her friends to die, and a large number of media reporters crouched at the door to report.
At first, Cui Zhen was immersed in the sadness of the death of his friend and did not care.
But as the rumors spread more and more outrageously, she came out angrily to explain that her mother was taking care of her property, and she did not touch her own funds and stocks, let alone lend usury.
After the police investigation, the originator of the rumor was Bai Mou, an employee of the securities company, and the police arrested her, and Cui Zhen intended to prosecute her.
But even so, the online bad words about her have not stopped.
Twenty years after her debut, she survived the storms and waves, and her husband's domestic violence and betrayal did not crush her, but the verbal violence of the past month completely broke her psychological defense line.
In the past month, in addition to being busy with the aftermath of her friends, she also has to endure the condemnation and violence of public opinion on her, and she does not understand that she has done nothing wrong, why everyone should do this to her.
She takes antidepressant medication every day and must drink a little alcohol before going to bed to fall asleep.
On October 1, she received a call from Bai, in which they quarreled fiercely, Bai threatened her to withdraw the lawsuit, Cui zhen described it as a devilish voice, and this phone call also became the last straw that crushed the camel.
She drank some wine in the middle of the night and came home to complain to her mother that she was disappointed in the world, and she didn't know why others were making such rumors.
After crying, she came to the bathroom and locked the door, sending a message to her friend, "If something happens to me, the child will please you, I'm sorry."
He then hanged himself with a bandage, less than a month after the death of his friend Ahn Jae-hwan.
When Cui Zhen left, she weighed only 31 kilograms at 1 meter 63, which made people speculate whether she suffered from depression before she died.
With the suicide of Zhang Ziyan the following year, The list of artists exposed by Zhang Ziyan included Cui Zhenzhen, and some people speculated whether Cui Zhen's experience before his death was forced to a dead end.
But there is still no conclusion, and the truth can only be left to time.
More tragic than that, more than a year after Cui Zhen's death, her grave was cut open by a mental patient, and her ashes were also stolen by him, although it was later recovered, but the insults and offenses she received after death could not be erased.
And what is even more bizarre is that people around Cui Zhen have also died one after another.
In 2010, Cui Zhenzhen's younger brother Cui Zhenying hanged himself, in the same way as Cui Zhenzhen, and both were 39 years old.
In 2013, Cui Zhenzhen's ex-husband Zhao Chengmin also hanged himself, also at the age of 39.
At the end of Zhao Chengmin's suicide note, he wrote: "Poor children, do not forgive your incompetent parents."
In the same year, Choi's last agent also committed suicide due to depression.
People who are deeply under the pressure of public opinion are relieved, but this pain is still being endured.
After the parents of the two children died, the children's grandparents tried to encroach on the property that Cui Zhen had left for the children in the name of love.
The loss of two children in old age, cui mama, who raised two grandchildren alone, still has to go to court with them, which can be described as bleak and sad in her later years.
The two children who have lived in the spotlight and public opinion since childhood and lost their parents have also been greatly affected psychologically.
The youngest daughter, Cui Junxi, has a rebellious personality, has had suicidal thoughts since she was a child, and even accused her grandmother of preferring sons to daughters on the Internet in order to win attention, abusing her, and letting netizens save her.
When the police arrived, they realized that she was only doing this to gain attention.
When she grew up a little, she turned her attention to starting a family, she said: "One by one, the family died, the family was very deserted, I wanted to get married and have children early, and have a new family." ”
In 2019, before the age of 17, she shared wedding photos with her boyfriend online.
Cui Huanxi, the son of Cui Zhen, despite his grandmother's strong opposition, entered the entertainment industry and officially debuted as a singer.
Many people envy the brilliance of stars, but they do not see the price of fame, and Cui's real tragic experience still cannot stop people with star dreams from pouring into this circle one after another.
In the Internet age, everyone has a microphone, and those who are suppressed by public opinion and cannot survive, no matter what they say or do, they can be found by people to find loopholes and attack them.
As early as a month after Choi's suicide, the South Korean government drafted the "Choi Se-jin Act" to prohibit the abuse of anonymous messages.
But sadly, in the 14 years since Choi's death, online violence in South Korea seems to be intensifying, and every once in a while artists go to the brink of extinction because of online violence and depression.
And such tragic cases are not only happening in South Korea.
In today's more open and free speech, I hope that everyone can be cautious in words and deeds.