Sharing the experiences of her being bullied, to help make the students more aware, to help put an end to bullying, from the Front Page Sections, translated…
The actress, Vega Chamder Tsai was invited to Keelung All-Girls’ High School, and disclosed to the audience, that she was physically bullied by her classmates when she was still in school, they’d pulled her hair, and called her “pig”, and as she passed through the hallways, everybody who was their shouted, “you’re so ugly!” as she got off school, behind the cameras, she’d told, of how awful her life had been “before sixteen”.
The Keelung All-Girls’ High School worried that the students may come across troubles as they weather through their teenage years, and the counselor at school thumbed across Vega Chamder Tsai’s book, “Murder of the Sweet Girl”, she’d felt that her words rang true, invited her to share her own experiences with the students. Tsai told, that this was the very first time she was invited to a school to lecture, she felt very honored.
She’d told, that she started acting when she was only five, that there was only three channels on T.V., and the show she’d taken a role in had thirty-percent viewers to begin with, that almost all the families would see her when they turned on their televisions, she’s also in a lot of the commercials back then too.
Being envied by most as a “child star”, Vega Chamder Tsai disclosed, that her schooling career was so miserable, and all the students in the audience were so surprised and asked her why, “how is that even possible?”. She’d told them, she was a child actress, and that although she was very well-behaved on set, loved by everybody on set, but in the schools, she’d become, the head target, and everybody would gossip about her.
“Nobody was willing to be my friend”, she’d told, that she’d always eaten her lunches alone, and the classmates would pull on her hair at nap time, and called her bad names too; even as the school lets out, they wouldn’t let her off, as she passed the hallways, the other students called her to a halt, and, as she’d turned her head around, everybody shouted, “You’re UGLY!”, it’d made her feel so bad.
Vega Chamder Tsai told, that back then, she’d hated that she had to be around those people, hated everything, wanted to murder her own images as a “sweet little girl” on screen, and wanted to be someone who’s liked by others in real-life.
She’d turned her own dark thoughts into a source of her creativity, and on the birthday card she’d written to a guy she’d liked, she’d drawn a cake, with a knife, and red all over it, she’d made fun of herself, “I was, rather unique, wasn’t I?”, all the students in the audience burst out laughing.
Vega Chamder Tsai told, that as she’d told of her experience of being bullied, she’d felt elated, she wanted the students to live out their own lives, just like she had too, turning everything bad in her past, into everything that’s, made her into who she is today.
And so, this, is the journey of this woman’s becoming, she was bullied, because she was a child star, and that must’ve been very difficult, being “different” from the rest of her classmates, and, they’d made it worse for her, but she’d still worked hard, to overcome, and she’s now, turned her experiences of being bullied into something positive, and used the experiences in her childhood years, to help others.