Back in 2018, Hongkong actress Elena Kong came under massive fire after the media found out that she had secretly gotten married and divorced. Almost three years since the big reveal, she has decided to clear the air.

Elena and her ex-husband Ng Kwan Cheung, who is actress Sandra Ng’s brother, registered their marriage in Seattle back in 2006, but Elena claimed that she had “forgotten” that she was married.

The 49-year-old also clarified that she and Kwan Cheung had been separated for “some time” before the reports were published in 2018, but that she couldn’t bring herself about it to the press for the longest time because of her panic disorder.

“I was afraid that I wouldn’t be able to handle the intense pressure and scrutiny that would come with it,” she confessed. “I didn’t know if I would be able to deal with all the questions and probing that would come with the [divorce] announcement (…) which was why I kept it a secret for so long.”

She shared in a recent interview that rumours that a third party caused their divorce are completely false. Elena explained, “We were based in different cities for work. He was in Beijing and I was in Hongkong. It’s as simple as that.”

She continued, “I didn’t know what to say and who to talk to [about the split]. Some people think that divorce is triggered by one big incident, but that’s not always the case. It could be the little things that piled up over the years that make you wonder if you should continue living [together when you’re no longer happy].”

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