Wang to quit show business for now

Hours after saying that he was never unfaithful in his marriage, Taiwanese-American singer Wang Leehom apologised and announced that he would be temporarily quitting the entertainment industry.

In a social media post around noon yesterday, he wrote in Chinese: "It is my fault for not managing my marriage properly, causing trouble to my family and not living up to my image as an idol."

He said he would no longer issue any explanations or defence as it was meaningless arguing about the past now that he and his wife Lee Jinglei, 35, have split.

The couple married in 2013 and have two daughters, aged seven and five, and a three-year-old son.

Wang announced his divorce on social media last Wednesday, but Lee told Taiwan's Apple Daily yesterday that they are still husband and wife, as they have yet to complete the divorce proceedings.

"I will take note of my words and actions from now on, shoulder my responsibilities as a father, son and public figure, as well as take care of Jinglei and our children in life and financially as much as possible," the singer wrote.

"I am going to quit my work temporarily and set aside time for my parents and children to make up for the damage caused by this incident."

He added that he would also transfer to Lee the house she and their children are currently living in.

The issue of the house was raised after Lee included in a post a snapshot of a message from Wang last Saturday, in which he said he would give her the condominium if she apologised and told the media that her accusations were groundless and that she had not been thinking clearly.

"The issue has been mainly mishandled by me and I apologise again to everybody," Wang wrote at the end of the post.

On Sunday night, he had hit back at Lee's nine-page post two days earlier accusing him of multiple infidelities, solicitation of prostitutes and bullying her during their marriage.

In the four-page post, he denied cheating on her. He wrote: "I can say with absolute certainty that I was never unfaithful in our marriage."

Yesterday morning, Lee rebutted Wang's claim that going public was the only way he could communicate with her.

She included screenshots of rejected and unanswered phone calls she had made to him.

She urged him to stop blaming other people for his problems.

She also expressed her hopes that she would not have to expose more private matters in response to his false accusations or his unwillingness to admit to his mistakes, and added that she has almost become an "online writer of serialised stories".

Meanwhile, Yumi from Singaporean twin pop duo BY2, who was rumoured to be involved in an extramarital affair with Wang, released a long statement on Sunday as well.

She denied seeing the singer-songwriter after he got married and claimed that she was Wang's former girlfriend.

She said they had begun dating in 2012 and broke up in 2013, before Wang got married.