Ryu Hwayoung said, “It’s a shame. Thinking about it now, it’s something that can definitely happen between girls. Looking back, we were still young and inexperienced. I, also, wasn’t an adult.” When asked if she ever cried, she responded, “I locked myself in my room and cried a lot. I had lost a lot of weight at the time, and my sister, choking up, told me to stop losing weight.”
Ryu Hyoyoung, Hwayoung’s sister, added, “My sister was watching a music program, and she was spaced out [thinking about something else]. It made me think that I should work harder.” Ryu Hwayoung, hearing her sister say this, started crying.
However, following this broadcast, a T-ara staff member from the time of the scandal spoke up online, revealing their account of what allegedly really happened.
The staff member said, “I saw yesterday’s broadcast of ‘Taxi.’ I saw that Ryu Hwayoung and Ryu Hyoyoung cried, too. [Hwayoung] said ‘It’s something that can definitely happen between girls’? That they didn’t know better? As if what happened was nothing? What, exactly was it that ‘could have just happened’? The threat that [Hyoyoung] would scratch up someone’s face?”
The staff member posted images of an text conversation — which have been confirmed as real — between Hyoyoung and Areum, T-ara’s youngest member at the time.
Translation of texts above:
Hyoyoung: “Areum, it’s Hyoyoung.”
Areum: “Hi (Hyoyoung) unni! ^^”
Hyoyoung: “Areum, when someone takes care of you, you say ‘thank you’ and be grateful. If you don’t want to take a beating, get it together. Rumors in the industry spread fast. And don’t go blabbing. Be classy ^^. I’m really mad right, now, so let’s not run into each other?
“If there’s something that I’ve misunderstood, do you want to meet and talk, or do you want to apologize now?”
Areum: “I’m not sure what you’re talking about exactly, but I’d like to meet and talk. Unni (Hyoyoung), I haven’t done anything so bad as to be hearing this from you.”
Hyoyoung: “Babe, you should just go.
“Let’s give you a beating at ‘Music Bank.’ There will be dust everywhere.
“I’ll scratch up your face so you can’t be on TV.
“Hahaha just wait~ ^^
“I’m not going to be a singer haha so you wait ^^ Dogs need to be hit to come to their senses.
“Stupid bitch. Show up in front of me, we’ll see what happens.”
“Okay, you’re doing a gre~~~at job tattling.”
Statement from Hyoyoung’s agency
February 9, a source from Ryu Hyoyoung’s agency, B.A.M Company, explained the text messages included above: “At the time, Hyoyoung was very young, and because her twin sister Hwayoung was having a hard time due to the ‘bullying scandal,’ she stepped in as family. Hyoyoung didn’t know everything that was going on between the T-ara members. As an older sister, she simply reacted emotionally to the fact that Hwayoung was upset. There was no other reason behind the text messages.”
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