Korean singer Ali came out with her second album, putting an end to 13 months of hibernation.
The singer, who composed the song “Nayeongi,” inspired by the heinous 2008 rape case against an eight-year-old girl, came under harsh criticism in 2011.
The incident, in which the girl was kidnapped to a church restroom, and brutally raped by a 57-year-old man, left her organs ruptured.
The public fumed with anger, denouncing how insensitive the singer was.
They said the song would remind the victim and their family of the pain. Others said she was trying to make money out of a tragedy.
Then in 2011, she confessed she was also a victim of rape.
Ali, accompanied by her father at a press conference, said," I wanted to keep it to myself until the dying day. But, in order to clear the air, I picked up the courage to say it in public."
A year has passed since then. Her time out of public eye was not like the ordinary singer's, at all.
It was constant moments of self-healing and struggling, to pick up her shattered self and restart to sing.
"I made the song with the hope that she will forget the incident and live on. But that was wrong. Since then I suffered emotionally and physically, to the point that I had ringing and shingles in my ears," said the singer.
"Without my mother, I probably could be as strong as I am now. Even the time I was fallen victim to the crime, my mom urged me to go and get driver's license.
This time also reassured me that I could overcome the ordeal."