Rosamund Kwan opens up about love life: 'Every one was my favourite'

The Straits Times
Feb 23, 2017

In a rare interview, actress Rosamund Kwan opened up about her varied love life.

When asked by talk show host Chen Luyu which of her relationships was with the love of her life, Kwan, 54, answered: "Every one was my favourite. That's past, it's history."

Which break-up was the most painful then?

Hinting at her divorce from billionaire Pierre Chen, she said: "In the past, it was more dramatic. I might be sad one or two days. This time it's longer because we lived together for a long time - seven years!"

So she was sad "maybe more than two days".

Although the beauty is no longer active in cinema, intimations of her love life still keep the media busy.

A year after she announced her split with Chen, 59, in 2015, she was rumoured to be dating Super Junior-M singer Zhou Mi, 30, but she said they were just friends.

In the interview for Phoenix TV's A Date With Luyu, which was due to air on Wednesday night (Feb 22), Kwan also talked about money and family, said Oriental Daily News.

Addressing rumours about her materialism, she said: "People say I'm greedy for money, what does it mean? Who doesn't have to eat? If my boyfriend is rich or more successful, does it mean I'm greedy for his money? Can't it be that he's greedy for my fame?"

Her marriage to Chen was her second.

She had been briefly married to businessman Chris Wong in 1981, said Apple Daily.

Her boyfriends, rumoured or confirmed, include tycoon Joseph Lau and model Jimmy Wong.

Kwan, the daughter of actors Kwan Shan and Chang Ping-sie, said she had a sad childhood and was no pampered princess, contrary to what other people believe.

Her parents divorced when she was 18. When they later left Hong Kong, she lived alone.

When she was 13, her father was not home when her little brother, playing with lighters, started a fire in the study, she said. She had to put it out with an extinguisher herself.

Because her parents were not good at investment, she started working part-time from a young age to support the family and also entered show business.

"Actually, it was really hard. In the first year, I shot five to six TV dramas, and two movies. I was really going crazy, sleeping only two to three hours a day, drifting to and fro like a ghost. I didn't enjoy that process."

She said she had no money to go to university, and to realise her childhood dream to become an interior designer.

"I dreamt a lot, but didn't realise it," she added. "I had no choice."

In 1984, she was rumoured to be the third party in businessman William Ma and actress Maggie Chan's marriage, which ended, said Apple Daily.

Asked about it, Kwan answered: "I didn't take the initiative. I can't stop people from doing anything for me."

But she added that she had regrets because she hurt someone.