Ella Chan reveals how she ‘lost’ herself in character role

Compiled by JUNAID IBRAHIM and LIEW JIA XIAN

TAIWANESE singer Ella Chen, 40, admitted that she fell into depression as she was too attached to the role she was playing in a movie, Guang Ming Daily reported.

The member of the popular Taiwanese all-girl trio S.H.E said she played the role of a female journalist who had a lot of inner conflicts.

Although Chen doesn’t like the journalist’s dark personality, she decided to take up the challenge as the role deviated from her own personality.

However, during the filming process, she got depressed as she was too attached to the role, which made her husband quite uncomfortable.

“My husband could clearly feel my unhappiness and I was surrounded by negative emotions,” she said.

She described that she only saw the world in black and white during that period.

She said she was relieved she had got over it and admitted teared up while watching the rough cut of the film as it brought back a lot of memories.

> Oriental Daily reported that another member of S.H.E, Selena Jen, revealed she found her new love after being divorced for more than five years.

Jen posted on social media recently that she was dating.

She wrote that her “spring has arrived” indicating that her new romance was blooming.

Jen was spotted being close to a bespectacled man recently.

She married lawyer Richard Chang in 2011, but divorced in 2016.

When asked by the media, Chang said Jen introduced her new lover to him but refused to comment further.

Jen’s manager revealed that her new partner was not from the entertainment industry.

It is learnt that he is seven years younger than her.

The above articles are compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a >, it denotes a separate news item.