HONG KONG - DISGRACED Hong Kong pop star Edison Chen has said that all the hundreds of sex photos of him with a string of starlets were taken with the women's full consent, in the latest twist to the celebrity saga.
In an interview with CNN's Talk Asia, the Canadian-born star said the explicit pictures, which caused a huge scandal when they found their way on to the Internet last year, had been agreed with the stars.
'Everything was mutual. It was all consensual,' he said in the interview. 'If I have a camera in front of your face and there's a flash, do you know that I'm taking a photo of you? That's as simple as it is.'
More than 1,300 photos, which show Chen and the starlets in compromising positions, shocked many in the celebrity-obsessed but culturally conservative city and ruined the careers of some of the actresses and singers involved.
Chen apologised to one of the actresses, Cecilia Cheung, who had earlier criticised Chen for not saying sorry.
'I wasn't allowed to talk to her in the initial because of the police request and they were investigating me, which already had troubled me a lot... I really do feel sorry. I really am sorry to her.'
A Hong Kong computer technician was last month jailed for eight-and-a-half months for stealing the photos from Chen's laptop when he sent it in for repairs, but it is still unclear how the pictures made there way onto the Web.
Soon after Chen, whose albums and film appearances made him one of Asia's biggest entertainment stars, announced his retirement from the Hong Kong entertainment scene and fled to his childhood home of Canada.
SO WHOM DO WE BLAME? THE MEDIA; THE CELEBRITY; THE TECHNICIAN; WE, WHO LAP IT ALL UP;OR SHOULD WE BE FINGER-POINTING IN THE FIRST PLACE?
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