CY Leung’s daughter Chai-yan ‘lays her heart bare’ in first television interview

Leung Chai-yan, the eldest daughter of Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying, promises to tell all about her relationship with her father when the she makes her first television appearance tonight in the first instalment of a seven-part interview on Cable TV.

The 23-year-old will “lay her heart bare” according to a preview of the interview, which airs over seven nights on entertainment news programme CEN.

That relationship has come under the spotlight in recent weeks as Chai-yan, a law student at the London School of Economics, admitted she had suffered from depression and was “pretty familiar with the insides of a London ambulance”.

“People say that a major cause of depression comes from introverted anger. That’s why people cut themselves, because it’s an expression of anger and pain,” she told HK Magazine.

Chai-yan made headlines last June when she posted photos on her Facebook page showing cuts to her wrist and asked: “Will I bleed to death?” Her photos and comments were widely covered in the media. The chief executive and his wife then flew to London to visit her.