SINGAPORE singer Ho Yeow Sun revealed a dark secret to the media in Taiwan last week - she said she had been sexually abused at the age of six.
Then she and her husband, City Harvest Church founder Kong Hee, scrambled to break the news to her mother before the latter found out from the papers last Friday.
Ho, now 36, told a local daily: 'I never told her because I knew she would have a meltdown - which she did tonight.'
Ho, who is in Taiwan to promote her album Embrace, had shared her story with reporters there last Thursday to reach out to other victims.
She said the culprit was a man she knew, though she did not specify how they were related.
She was playing with her siblings at his home when he asked her to sit on his lap.
She then felt pain, she said.
When she tried to tell her mother later, she could not find the words and ended up keeping her in the dark for decades.
The singer said she sank into depression as a teen and would even cut her hands with a razor.
But religion helped her put the episode behind her. She also became a counsellor at the church.
