The once famous actor suddenly knelt down in front of the TV station and begged to be allowed to act in a movie because he had no job!
Alcoholism causes the actor to have no job, a miserable life, and a decline in spirit.
On June 20, page 163 reported that on the evening of the 19th, actor Tang Zhi Ping knelt in front of the television station to ask for the opportunity to act in a movie. According to sources, after his mother’s death, some of Tang Zhi Ping’s roles and images were cut.
According to 163, in early June, Taiwanese and Chinese police discovered Tang Zhi Ping’s mother dead on the rooftop of the building. The initial reason was said to have been that she committed suicide due to her miserable life, she could not pay the rent for three months and her son was deteriorating day by day.
The police asked Tang Zhi Ping to come and claim his mother’s body, but the actor denied that the person who died was his mother. According to ET Today, Tang Zhi Ping did not dare to come and confirm his identity because he did not have money to organize a funeral. However, the incident of his mother’s suicide also greatly affected Tang Zhi Ping’s reputation, causing the actor to have his role cut by the film crew. Tang Zhi Ping had to put down his pride and kneel down to ask the TV station to give him a job.
Zhi Ping, who got his start in showbiz as a model, became a household name after starring in 2006 idol dramas like The Hospital and Hanazakarino Kimitachihe.
He was nominated for best actor in a television series at the 2021 Golden Bell Award for his role in drama My Beautiful Family, but has since disappeared from the limelight.
Zhi Ping has been out of work for the past three to four years and has reportedly been borrowing money from friends and relatives to make ends meet.
In 2021, he revealed that he was “millions of dollars” in debt.
According to reports, he lived with his mother in a rented house and had owed nearly six months in rent, totalling around NT$100K (S$4.2K).
Mother and son reportedly had a big argument over his unemployment just three days before her death.