Edison Chen Scandal Photos: Star Speaks Out About Sex Pictures

by Tina Kells | June 1, 2009 at 01:11 pm

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Edison Chen, the subject of an international sex scandal after photos of him with no fewer than eight different Hong Kong actresses surfaced on the web in 2008. Dicky Sze Ho-chun released the sex photos, that he had obtained illegally, killing Edison Chen's burgeoning career. Edison Chen had taken the photos himself.

Dicky Sze Ho-chun has since been convicted of illegally obtaining and distributing the Edison Chen sex photos and is serving time in a Hong Kong prison. With that trial behind him Edison Chen is finally speaking out about the sex scandal that ruined his career.

Edison Chen will speak for the first time on CNN TV June 1, and online on Wednesday, June 3. Chen's exclusive interview with CNN's Anjali Rao will address the women involved in the photographs, why he took the images, the effect the scandal had on his health, his family and his career.

While Chen issued his own apology for any hurt or embarrassment caused soon after the photos surfaced, he maintains he was a victim in the whole affair.

"I believed I was a victim. I believed that I was hurt by this a lot. I believed that...I knew that I had nothing to do with the spreading of these photos," he told CNN.

"I can't say I didn't do anything wrong. I've admitted that I was wrong and I wouldn't say sorry if I wasn't wrong, but I also believe that at the same time that I wasn't the perpetrator and I had suffered a lot from this as well."

Chen has suffered a spectacular fall from grace, and some of the starlets in the photos have endured similar public disgrace and for some their careers have been ruined, unable to work in Hong Kong's entertainment industry again.

Chen admits not having spoken to any of the girls identified in the photos since the scandal broke.