Lee Ji-hyun, a former member of the group Jewelry, revealed the details of her two divorces.
On the 5th, JTBC’s ‘Divorce Reflection Camp’ featured Lee Ji-hyun discussing her two divorces.
On this day, Lee Ji-hyun said, “I dated for about three months before my first marriage. Once we got married, things I didn’t know about came out like onion layers, and I couldn’t handle it. I didn’t want the children to know about the divorce, so I went through mediation five times without litigation.” This surprised everyone.
She continued, “Men can’t express their demands because of their pride. When we went to the fifth mediation, my husband mentioned the amount he wanted. He said he would be fine with me taking everything, as long as we got divorced. That’s how it ended.”
Regarding remarriage after her divorce, she said, “It’s not easy to love someone who has two children. He loved me a lot and said he would embrace the children well, which is why I decided to remarry. However, as soon as the marriage began, my in-laws called me and said I could never be their children’s mother. They even secretly met my mother and asked if she could raise the children. They told me to just send them to my husband.”
She added, “What was really difficult was that my husband couldn’t firmly communicate with his family against their wishes. We remarried and registered our marriage, but our households couldn’t merge. It seemed like my husband was just waiting for me to leave the children behind. But what kind of mother would leave her children? In the end, my husband was the one who sent the divorce papers first.”
Lee Ji-hyun also spoke about the reality of divorce litigation. She said, “I married for love, but it’s a fight where I have to drag the person I loved down to the bottom. If the other person pulls me down, I have to refute everything one by one. Then, I receive more rebuttals. Going back and forth like that feels like my insides are being torn apart and tears are flowing from my bones.”
She continued, “Do you think it’s over once you break up? No. If mom and dad separate in a bad emotional state, visitation doesn’t go smoothly. They make all sorts of excuses not to show the children. In the meantime, I, as the custodian, sent the children to their dad on visitation day, but he sometimes sees them with his girlfriend. Just because you’re getting divorced doesn’t mean the fighting ends. There’s no such thing as a beautiful breakup in this world.”
She advised, “Whatever decision you make, I hope you didn’t divorce for yourself. I believe it’s most important for the children that their mom makes the best decision.”
[Lee Se-bin, Star Today Guest Reporter]
