Bowie Tsang grateful that parents were honest about divorce, 'never bore much resentment'
The Taiwanese actress was discussing her childhood with Singapore host Quan Yi Fong, and also shared how she handled Mother's and Father's Day celebrations.
Many might expect that a kid from a broken family hopes that their parents had stayed together, but that’s not the case for Bowie Tsang.
The veteran Taiwanese host admitted on the latest episode of the meWATCH talk show Hear U Out that she was grateful her parents were “honest with themselves”.
Tsang, 50, was only three when her parents, Hong Kong actor Eric Tsang and Taiwanese actress Wang Meihua, split.
The younger Tsang then moved to Taiwan with her paternal grandparents. She told host Quan Yi Fong that she didn’t see her parents very often and they were “unfamiliar” to her.
Tsang also shared that she was aware they had divorced “as soon as I was old enough to comprehend things”, which was around five to six years old.
When asked if she resented her situation, the Taiwanese actress replied, “I was relatively fortunate. By the time I was old enough to comprehend things, I was already living in such an environment. So I never had the disappointment of losing things I had previously.
“As soon as I could understand everything, I accepted my circumstances. So I never bore much resentment or felt that society was unfair to me.”
The only regret she has is that she couldn’t grow up with her parents because “our relationship, our feelings, and our memories would have been different”.
How she celebrated Father’s Day and Mother’s Day in school
Given her childhood, Quan asked Tsang if she felt bothered when she was participating in Father’s Day and Mother’s Day school activities as a child.
The question came about as Quan, who was raised and educated in Taiwan, pointed out that Taiwanese schools had this tradition of making students draw, fold paper carnations, and write stories about their parents on those occasions.
Tsang said that, fortunately, it was only one day a year for each celebration, and it just reminded her that she “had to do certain things”.
However, she saw her grandparents, who raised her, as more of her parental figures so she would fold carnations for her grandmother or aunt.
If she wrote compositions about her father, she would “fantasise about what he was like” and when she was older, she “applied my impression of my grandfather to him”.
These were ways she coped as a child, she confessed.
When I grew up, I could understand why they decided to separate when I was three years old. And I knew that had they stayed married just to keep up a front for their family and children, we wouldn’t have been happy either.Bowie Tsang
“I’m actually grateful to them for being honest with themselves in making this choice.”
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