"My husband, Mr. Bruce Lee accidentally fell to his death at home, please stop being suspicious, no one needs to be responsible for his sudden death."
On July 26, 1973, in the face of a crowd of reporters, Bruce Lee's wife Linda said these words categorically, but no one seemed to believe Linda's statement.
Bruce Lee was a generation of movie stars, but he died at the age of 32, which shocked many fans and naturally cared about the reasons for his violent death.
There is plenty of evidence that Bruce Lee died at the home of his lover, Ding Pei, on July 20. But many insiders are silent about it, as if they are hiding something.
It was not until 2015 that Ding Pei told the truth about Bruce Lee's sudden death. So how exactly did Bruce Lee die?
The death of a kung fu superstar
In 1973, Bruce Lee was filming the movie "Game of Death".
The producer of this film is the well-known filmmaker, Zou Wenhuai, the owner of Hong Kong Jiahe Films.
Zou Wenhuai can be called Bruce Lee's "Bo Le" in China, Bruce Lee returned to Hong Kong from the United States in the early years to develop, and it was with the support of Zou Wenhuai that he stepped onto the throne of Hong Kong kung fu superstar.
Therefore, Bruce Lee and Zou Wenhuai have a deep relationship and often discuss the production of movies together.
On July 20, Bruce Lee and Zou Wenhuai came to Ding Pei's home in Hong Kong, and Bruce Lee was ready to ask Zou Wenhuai to let Ding Pei play a role in the movie "Game of Death".
The three chatted from the afternoon to the evening, chatting very closely, and Zou Wenhuai was also impressed by this actress with outstanding appearance and sexiness, and readily agreed to Bruce Lee's request.
At about 7 p.m., Zou Wenhuai had an appointment with a friend and left Ding Pei's house first.
A few hours later, Zou Wenhuai received a call from Ding Pei, he thought that Ding Pei wanted to talk to him about some more things in the movie, but he didn't expect a panicked voice on the other end of the phone: "Xiaolong, he doesn't seem to be able to do it, I'm so scared!" ”
Hearing this, Zou Wenhuai immediately rushed to Ding Pei's house, only to see Bruce Lee lying quietly on the bed at this time, no matter how he called him, there was no response.
Zou Wenhuai felt that something was wrong, and quickly asked Ding Pei to contact the doctor, because Bruce Lee's personal doctor could not be contacted, Ding Pei contacted his personal doctor Zhu Bohuai to treat Bruce Lee.
After Zhu Bohuai came to the scene, he found that he could not do anything, because at this time Bruce Lee was not breathing, and his heartbeat and pulse had stopped.
But Bruce Lee was still in body temperature at this time, and several people quickly called an ambulance and quickly sent Bruce Lee to Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Hong Kong.
However, after eleven o'clock at night, the hospital still regretted that Bruce Lee died after ineffective rescue.
This news was like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, which plunged both Zou Wenhuai and Ding Pei into the abyss of pain.
At this time, Bruce Lee was only 32 years old, and the movie "Raptors Across the River" starring him at the end of last year had just set a new record at the box office of Hong Kong movies, and he was at the peak of his career, why did he suddenly die?
Soon, journalists with a sensitive sense of smell inquired about the news of Bruce Lee's death, and on July 21, a piece of news instantly detonated the whole of Hong Kong, and kung fu superstar Bruce Lee was "violently killed"!
For a while, no one could accept this fact, and some people even thought that Bruce Lee was suspended animation and wanted to use it to hype up the new movie.
Unfortunately, kung fu superstar Bruce Lee did suddenly leave fans in this form.
It was not until July 24, when Bruce Lee lay quietly in the coffin to meet the world, that people understood that Bruce Lee was really gone.
More than 20,000 fans spontaneously gathered on the street to see off Bruce Lee, and countless Hong Kong celebrities also personally went to Bruce Lee's coffin to bid him their final farewells.
It's just that when people say goodbye to Bruce Lee, they can't help but ask a question: How could Bruce Lee die suddenly?
Dead in a lover's bed?
After many people learned that Bruce Lee died in Ding Pei's home, they asked Ding Pei to prove how Bruce Lee died.
Dante Pei insisted that he was not related to Bruce Lee, who died in his home.
Zou Wenhuai also stood up to speak for Ding Pei, claiming that Bruce Lee had something to do in his own home.
However, the powerful reporters collected and listed a lot of evidence that Bruce Lee must have spent his last years in Ding Pei's home.
Police records confirmed that Bruce Lee had an accident at Ding Pei's home. Ambulance records also prove that paramedics carried Bruce Lee to the ambulance from Ding Pei's home.
For a time, the storm of public opinion swept towards Ding Pei, and all kinds of evidence showed that Ding Pei and Bruce Lee had a close relationship, and some people even suspected that Bruce Lee died in Ding Pei's bed.
However, on July 26, when Bruce Lee's wife Linda took her husband's body and boarded a plane to Seattle, USA, Linda said this to many reporters:
"I hope that friends in the media, stop speculating about the death of my husband Bruce Lee, who accidentally fell to his death at home, and no one is responsible for his death."
This seems to be a decisive word, but once again exploded in the media industry, in the eyes of many people, whether Linda or Ding Pei, are covering up some kind of truth, Bruce Lee's death must be strange.
In fact, Bruce Lee and Ding Pei have a close relationship, and people's suspicions are not groundless.
Ding Pei is 7 years younger than Bruce Lee, and the two first met in 1972, at the birthday party of Bruce Lee's wife Linda.
At that time, Bruce Lee was already a generation of kung fu superstars, starring in many movies that set box office records, and Ding Pei was still an unknown actor, who could only rely on playing some sexy and hot beautiful characters to eat.
This first meeting led to a bad fate.
Ding Pei fell in love with Bruce Lee, who was handsome and muscular in appearance, and her personality was also enthusiastic and unrestrained, and she quickly expressed her love for Bruce Lee.
But Bruce Lee was already married at this time, had a very good relationship with his wife Linda, and had a pair of children, and naturally did not react to Ding Pei's pursuit.
However, Bruce Lee and Ding Pei are both insiders in the film industry, and it is inevitable that there will be times when they meet, and Ding Pei has always been stalking Bruce Lee, and finally Bruce Lee fell and became a lover with Ding Pei.
Ding Pei did not hide his love for Bruce Lee, and publicly stated in public many times that he loved Bruce Lee very much.
Linda soon learned about this, but she thought that Bruce Lee was just a momentary brain fever and would not have any results with Ding Pei in the end, plus she lived in the United States, and Bruce Lee filmed in Hong Kong all year round, so she turned a blind eye to his relationship with Ding Pei.
These anecdotes were well known in the Hong Kong entertainment industry at that time, but Bruce Lee's sudden death made Bruce Lee's wife Linda and lover Ding Pei silent about it, as if they had reached some kind of alliance, deliberately hiding something from the outside world.
It's just that no matter how people ask these two insiders for verification, they still refuse to reveal half a word.
When Linda returned to the United States, she immediately faded from public view.
Ding Pei also met the well-known actor Xiang Huaqiang later, and married him and had children. With the passage of time, the cause of Bruce Lee's death has become an unsolved case in people's hearts, and they have searched hard, but they have never been answered.
It was not until the 42nd year after Bruce Lee's death that Ding Pei revealed some clues in his autobiography "Bruce Lee and My Old Time: Half a Life of Practice, A Lifetime of Remembrance".
So how exactly did Bruce Lee die?
The truth about Bruce Lee's death
In Ding Pei's autobiography, she boldly admitted her lover relationship with Bruce Lee and presented everything that happened on July 20, 1973.
On that day, Ding Pei hosted Bruce Lee and Zou Wenhuai at home, mainly discussing some of the production details of the movie "Game of Life and Death".
In the evening, Bruce Lee suddenly said: "I don't feel very well, my head hurts a little." ”
Seeing Bruce Lee like this, Zou Wenhuai and Ding Pei quickly stopped discussing the movie, Ding Pei went to the room, took a painkiller to Bruce Lee, and served him to take the medicine.
But the effect of the medicine was not obvious, Bruce Lee still felt a headache after taking the medicine, so Ding Pei helped him to his bedroom to rest, Bruce Lee didn't even have time to take off his shoes, fell on the bed, and began to fall asleep.
After a while, Zou Wenhuai said that he would go to the dinner first, let Bruce Lee and Ding Pei come later, and left first.
Ding Pei couldn't bear to disturb Bruce Lee's rest, so he sat alone in the living room and watched TV. However, after watching TV for a while, I didn't see Bruce Lee wake up.
At eight o'clock in the evening, Zou Wenhuai called to ask when Bruce Lee would pass, and Ding Pei looked at Bruce Lee and saw that he was still sleeping, so he said that it would be some time later.
At 9 o'clock, Ding Pei tried to call Bruce Lee to get up and eat, but no matter how she shouted, Bruce Lee did not react at all.
At this time, Ding Pei felt that something was wrong, and quickly called Zou Wenhuai to come over.
After Zou Wenhuai came to Ding Pei's house, he couldn't wake up Bruce Lee, and later after a doctor's examination, Bruce Lee was dead.
This is the whole process of Bruce Lee described by Ding Pei in his autobiography before his death, and people can't help but wonder if Bruce Lee died because of the medicine Ding Pei gave her.
Ding Pei said that what she gave Bruce Lee was nothing more than a common painkiller.
In fact, in the autopsy after Bruce Lee's death, the forensic doctor extracted aspirin and marijuana from Bruce Lee's stomach, and there were no other substances that could cause death, which ruled out the possibility of Ding Pei's murder of Bruce Lee.
But Bruce Lee's unusual headache response before his death suggests that there seems to be some kind of disease in his body. This is puzzling, because Bruce Lee is a generation of kung fu superstars, and he is famous because he knows real kung fu.
Bruce Lee was inherited from a generation of grandmasters Ip Man, and his obsession with martial arts was beyond people's imagination, and he created a martial art called "Jeet Kune Do".
Bruce Lee's physical fitness is also very comparable, his body fat rate has reached an astonishing 3%, in addition to several major muscle groups on the body, every small muscle of his is properly exercised, which can be called "every muscle can do kung fu".
It is difficult to accept that such a seemingly strong person has a physical illness that has led to death.
However, Bruce Lee's body did have some unimaginable wear and tear.
After Bruce Lee arrived in the United States in his early years, he was not able to gain a foothold in Hollywood, and he could only fight "black boxing" in underground gyms at first.
Fighting black boxing is an extremely terrifying thing, just like gladiators in ancient times, the fight will only end if one of the two sides completely loses the ability to fight.
Although Bruce Lee has a real kung fu body protection such as Wing Chun, there are many masters of black boxing and many tricks, so Bruce Lee's body left some wounds that could not be healed at that time.
Bruce Lee's training for himself has also reached the point of "perversion", he will train himself devilishly, often do a lot of actions beyond the limits of the body, often exhaust himself to exhaustion, which seriously consumes his own energy and physical strength.
In addition, he would also use electric shocks to promote the growth of his muscles, which was not yet developed at that time, and although it did make his muscles grow a lot, it also left sequelae.
Therefore, Bruce Lee often felt dizzy when making movies, especially when he had a lot of exaggerated martial arts movements during filming, which consumed a lot of his physical strength.
But he was very dedicated to film, and when he was dizzy, he would only take a short break and then continue to shoot.
Later, Bruce Lee needed to carry some drugs to treat dizziness and headaches, and when he felt that he could not support it, he would take medicine to relieve it.
These drugs often contain marijuana components, which is equivalent to making Bruce Lee smoke marijuana in disguise, although it can play a short-term pain relief, but also constantly hollowing out his body.
In this way, Bruce Lee's health deteriorated, and even though he was still in the prime of his 32 years, he often felt headaches.
On July 20, 1973, Bruce Lee had another headache attack, and after he took painkillers, his battered body became allergic to the drugs, resulting in cerebral edema and eventually death.
A generation of kung fu superstars fell like this, making countless fans sigh for it.
Although Bruce Lee has been dead for 50 years, his image has always lived in people's hearts, and whenever people talk about Chinese Kung Fu, they can think of the image of sharp eyes, muscles and Kong Wu, and he has become synonymous with Chinese Kung Fu.
Bruce Lee made the world realize the charm of Chinese kung fu, and although his life was short, it bloomed with eternal brilliance and deserves to be remembered by all.
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