Actress Shim Eun Woo expressed regret and went to explain herself after getting criticized for school violence.
Recently, as the Netflix original “The Glory”, which deals with school violence and revenge against the perpetrator, is in trend, celebrities who have been involved in school violence in the past or who have been suspected have become a topic of discussion online.
“It has been more than two years since I’ve been labeled as a school bully,” she said. “Since the day the drama ‘The Glory’ aired in January this year, there has been an additional label called ‘The Second Yeon Jin’.”
Previously, Shim Eun Woo was at the center of the school violence controversy in March 2021 and stopped activities. At the time, in an online community, a netizen claimed, “I was bullied under the leadership of Shim Eun Woo in middle school.” Shim Eun Woo said, “I apologize to my friend who was hurt by my immature attitude in the past.” At the time, Shim Eun Woo drew attention as ‘Min Hyeon Seo’ in the JTBC drama “The World of the Married”, which caused a syndrome.
Shim Eun Woo, who failed to talk about the alleged school violence at the time, said,
I apologized to the friend. When I first heard about it, I had no idea who the writer was. As soon as I found out who it was, I asked for the friend’s contact number without thinking about it, and I got the friend’s sister’s contact number and talked to her on the phone.
I contacted the person who was hurt by me and had a hard time so far because I thought it was right to listen to the friend’s story first, not to deny it unconditionally and ignore it because I don’t remember it. However, the person said, “If you can’t remember, you should file a complaint. Why did you call?”
After the phone call, the next day, countless articles of suspicion were posted on the portal, and I couldn’t even have a conversation with that friend, so I and the agency at the time couldn’t unconditionally admit something we couldn’t remember. We had no choice but to deny it.
At the time, I was filming the drama ‘Fly Up, Butterfly’ for 6 months, and the drama team was afraid of the situation where everyone was being harmed because of me and the pressure was high. I thought carefully over and over again, I wonder if this battle for the truth, which may end at any time, is correct or whether I am doing well.
The drama team was able to drop me off from the drama, but they agreed to apologize so that my friend’s heart wouldn’t get hurt and chose not to drop me off, and the PD visited my friend’s parents in Donghae and apologized. I sincerely apologized with an open apology on my Instagram at the time.
After that, I looked back on my life every day, and I was not a model student, of course. If I had done so, I wouldn’t have had this issue. I confess that when I was in the first grade of middle school, I was greedy, selfish, and jealous, and I wanted to stand out.
Since I watched the musical performance in the second grade of middle school, I’ve been busy practicing after-school singing every day with that dream, and I was always frustrated. I don’t want to deny everything. If I’m in that friend’s hard memory, I’m really sorry, and I’m sincere.
However, I was misunderstood as a perpetrator of school violence throughout my school days, and now it is very upsetting and difficult to be stigmatized as the ‘second Yeon Jin’ in ‘The Glory’ who inflicted physical harm mercilessly. I also think that school violence should be eradicated, and I am the same person who thinks that the bad guys in ‘The Glory’ must be punished. I am asked for time for self-reflection with no end in sight, I don’t get work opportunities and I am attacked by countless people who do not even know my face.
I’ve been through a lot of bad comments and posts, I’ve also deleted Instagram and deleted comments so I can’t see them. I’m so sorry to everyone, I want to get along well, and I’m really sorry if there are people who have been hurt even a little bit in the past because of me, who is always lacking.
Source:(A)
