Actor Jiang Houren Defends Girlfriend Amid Fraud Claims
Translated from Chinese, summarized and contextualized by DistantNews.
At a glance
- Taiwanese veteran actor Jiang Houren held a press conference to defend his younger girlfriend, Tong Xin, against accusations of fraud related to her family's care for a cancer patient.
- Jiang claims Tong Xin's family provided free medical assistance, housing, and meals for five months to a woman named Jiang, who later invested in Tong Xin's company after recovering.
- He vehemently denies the fraud allegations, calling the accusations "returning kindness with enmity" and offering his lifelong reputation as a guarantee of their innocence.
Veteran Taiwanese actor Jiang Houren, 71, has publicly refuted fraud allegations leveled against his 24-year-old girlfriend, Tong Xin, and her family. The controversy stems from a postcard Tong Xin sent in her childhood, which Jiang shared on social media, inadvertently igniting a firestorm of accusations involving cancer insurance payouts and alleged financial impropriety.
This matter, I have studied a bit of criminal psychology.
At a press conference, a visibly angered Jiang Houren directly addressed the claims, which he described as a complete distortion of facts. He detailed how Tong Xin's family allegedly provided extensive, unpaid care for a woman named Jiang, who was battling stage three to four cancer. According to Jiang, Tong Xin helped find doctors, her parents offered their home in Tainan for five months, her father provided transportation for medical appointments, and her mother prepared six meals daily. Tong Xin herself reportedly communicated with doctors nightly to discuss the patient's condition.
Jiang Houren emphasized that the family provided this care for five months without receiving any payment. He stated that the woman successfully underwent surgery, her cancer cells were cleared, and she even wrote over 20 thank-you notes expressing gratitude to Tong Xin's family. Jiang Houren presented this timeline to counter the narrative of fraud, arguing that if the family had intended to defraud the patient, they would have done so during her most vulnerable period.
You didn't cheat them out of a penny when they were sick, but eight months after they recovered, they voluntarily became a shareholder. Is that fraud?
The actor further highlighted that the woman in question reportedly invested in Tong Xin's company eight months after her recovery, using insurance payout funds. Jiang Houren questioned the logic of the fraud accusation, stating, "You didn't cheat them out of a penny when they were sick, but eight months after they recovered, they voluntarily became a shareholder. Is that fraud?"
This situation is 'returning kindness with enmity'.
Jiang Houren concluded by expressing his deep frustration, labeling the situation as "returning kindness with enmity." He pledged his lifelong reputation as collateral, asserting his 71-year-old self was willing to "take on" anyone making these accusations, and appealed for basic human decency, stating, "The last bottom line of society is that people's hearts should be kind."
The last bottom line of society is that people's hearts should be kind.
Originally published by Liberty Times in Chinese. Translated, summarized, and contextualized by our editorial team with added local perspective. Read our editorial standards.