According to Taiwan media outlets including ETtoday, Hsu said at the taping of a local variety show on Sunday that her sister’s death left “a long period” of emptiness in her life and that she felt so lost she did not even know what she was doing.
She said she drank with their mother and talked about her sister, calling those conversations the only way to ease the sadness.
Hsu also said she had suggested the trip her sister took before she died. Fighting back tears, she said she was tormented by the thought that the tragedy might not have happened if she had listened to her mother, who opposed the trip at the time.
She said her mother tried to comfort her, telling her never to think that way, but that the pain remains.
Barbie Hsu was a Taiwanese star who worked as an actor, singer and TV host. She rose to fame in 2001 after starring as the female lead, Shan Cai, in “Meteor Garden,” a drama based on the Japanese manga “Boys Over Flowers.”
She married Chinese businessman Wang Xiaofei in 2011, divorced in 2021 and remarried in 2022 to Koo Jun-yup.