Sng Ee Mei (left) announced on Jan 5 that she was cutting ties with her sister, Mandopop star Stefanie Sun. Photo: Stefanie Sun/Facebook
Two days after announcing that she is severing ties with her famous sister Stefanie Sun, Sng Ee Mei has raised another possible reason why she is doing so.
“I’ve come across posts on Xiaohongshu about how my behaviour was due to my parents’ favouritism,” Sng wrote in Chinese on social media on Jan 7, referring to the Chinese social media platform.
“There is indeed a little bit of favouritism, but it’s more accurate to say that they are siding with power.”
Sng, 40, is the younger sister of Singaporean singer-songwriter Sun, 45, and both of them have an elder sister.
“No love for the person with power. As for the love I want, there is only the Lord, hence @geneandgod,” Sng added, referring to her username on Chinese microblogging site Weibo.
“I have figured it out a long time ago and I wish you all the best in your search for love.”
Sng dropped a bombshell in a Weibo post on Jan 5 when she appeared to announce she is severing ties with her sister Sun. Photo: WeiboShe dropped the bombshell in a Weibo post on Jan 5 when she appeared to announce she is severing ties with the Mandopop star.
“I’ve been living in the shadows for over 20 years, and from today, I just want to find liberation,” Sng wrote on the eve of her birthday. “I’m not a celebrity, and yet I could not live privately. I just want to say that I’m no longer sisters with a certain person.”
She also used the hashtag #estrangednotstrange in her post on Jan 5. Sun has not reacted publicly to Sng’s recent social media posts.
Sng now resides in Australia. She has hinted at her complicated relationship with her family in some of her previous posts on Weibo.
“I had a really hard time in Singapore. I lived between the ages 18 and 36 in the shadow of my sister’s fame. It’s the reason I don’t associate being in Singapore with happy memories,” she wrote in English in a post on Weibo in August 2022.
“My parents may not understand this, and have chosen to go travelling instead of visiting me in Australia even though I have invited them many times. That is disappointing for me.”
She added: “I’m not the golden child, I know. I never really wanted to be a doctor and made no qualms about voicing that and trying many times to do what I love instead – economics and law (anything commerce-related). Being a doctor was my parents’ dream for me, not mine.” – The Straits Times/Asia News Network
