After previously opening up about the ill-treatment and abuse she received while filming “Xue Se Lian Qing” in 2010, 44-year-old mainland actress Sun Feifei decided to share the inside story of the violence she allegedly encountered while filming the TV series.
On 22 July, Sun shared in a video posted on Weibo and said, “Today I will answer the doubts of netizens, that is, why did they beat me? Some dramas are not for the purpose of making a good drama. The purpose is to go through the motions and put the country’s money into their own pockets. The drama “Xue Se Lian Qing” came into being for this reason.”
Sun recalled that during filming, she repeatedly pointed out logical inconsistencies in the script and continuity errors in the sets, which slowed down the production’s rushed schedule. As a result, she became a target for hostility from the director and others.
She claimed to have been violently attacked by the assistant director and the producer, suffering facial fractures and a concussion, with medical bills exceeding RMB 800,000. She also claimed that when her assistant Liu Lei tried to call the police, her phone was taken away, and witnesses were threatened into silence.
In the past, after the above-mentioned violent incident was exposed, state media painted Sun in a negative light, accusing her of “skipping work, overstepping authority” and “fabricating the story for fame.”
Although she eventually withdrew from acting, Sun has continued to expose the “unwritten rules” of the Chinese entertainment world, saying in a recent post, “I’m not afraid, because I’ve already experienced the worst kind of defamation, that ‘Sun Feifei fabricated being assaulted on set just to gain fame’. This accusation echoed throughout all of China in 2010–2011. There’s no slander more disgusting than that! I was clearly beaten, yet I was labelled as someone who made up a violent incident just for publicity.”
“If someone did it, they did it. If they didn’t, they didn’t. I’m not afraid of false accusations!” she added.
She added that if her case can serve as a wake-up call for the Chinese film and television industry, then she will have no regrets, even in death.