‘Mermaid’ star Zhang Yuqi divorces after knife attack
SHANGHAI: Star of The Mermaid ( 2016) Zhang Yuqi and her husband have divorced after an alleged knife attack. Zhang had allegedly wounded her husband Yuan Bayuan with a fruit knife on Monday evening, a claim she denies. Police have confirmed the details of the report. Med i c a l sources said Yuan suffered two scratches to his back, around one cent imetre long. According to the police report, an
A relationship from start to finish is only the couple’s business. Today it is over. I hope the dust will settle and that nobody will privately investigate further. Yang Tianzhen, spokeswoman for the feuding couple
argument over trivial domestic matters had escalated into physical conflict. Yuan had alerted the police soon after the incident. The couple was taken to the Ruijin Second Road police station in central Shanghai for mediation.
Police did not find the knife in the couple’s home, and Zhang, 31, denied attacking Yuan, 44, with a knife.
According to police, the case is in the mediation stage.
A spokeswoman for the couple, Yang Tianzhen, later released a statement on their behalf announcing that they had divorced.
“A relationship from start to finish is only the couple’s business,” Yang wrote on her official Weibo account.
“Today it is over. I hope the dust will settle and that nobody will privately investigate further.”
Zhang is best-known for her role in Stephen Chow’s 2016 smash-hit fantasy film The Mermaid, which broke Chinese box office records.
Originally from Shandong province, Zhang rose to fame after she was picked to star in Chow’s science fiction film, CJ7 after graduating from acting school in Shanghai.
She married Yuan, a businessman, in 2016 after divorcing her first husband, the film director Wang Quanan in 2015.