Dicky Cheung has recently responded to reports that he and wife Jess Zhang have haphazardly thrown cigarette butts into a row of planter boxes containing flowers.
The whole issue sparked recently, when a netizen shared a video showing the couple smoking outdoors and then carelessly throwing their partially extinguished cigarette butts into the planter box.
Many took to social media to blast the couple, saying that a half-extinguished cigarette could easily ignite dried leaves and pose serious fire hazard.
Following the controversy, on 21 October, Dicky provided Hong Kong media with photos of himself at the said venue in the day, using the photos to illustrate that there was an ashtray on the banister in front of the rows of flowers.
According to him, the environment was too dark at the time, which led people to mistakenly believe that a cigarette butt had been thrown into the planter box.
He even jokingly used lyrics from his hit song “True or False” to clear his name, saying, “True, true… false, false… as long as you believe him.”
