Late-blooming star Lee Ae-ran reveals past poverty
Singer Lee Ae-ran / Courtesy of her official website
Singer Lee Ae-ran, who has shot to stardom with “100-Year Life,” has disclosed that her poverty meant she did not have the money to take her sick father to hospital.
Lee, 52, is a leading Korean singer these days and a video for “100-Year Life” has garnered about 2 million views.
But she was a virtual unknown for 25 years and she elaborated on what that meant for her family while on a Korean cable talk show on JTBC. The full version of the show will air on Sunday. Her father died in May last year, she said, and that she could not afford one hospital treatment because of her poverty.
“My father passed away without ever finding out what his illness was,” Lee was quoted in the talk show as saying.
She also talked of her youngest sibling who is battling leukemia.