Canto-pop star and actor Nicholas Tse Ting-fung denies that his actress wife Cecilia Cheung Pak-chi has developed prenatal depression. 'This [rumour] has been written about more than a dozen times, but she's fine,' he said.
Cheung was earlier reported to be hiding at home because she was upset about having gained weight during her pregnancy and was worried about seeing her husband hurt on the set of Benny Chan Muk-sing's action thriller, Invisible Target.
The mother-to-be is due to give birth next month, and Tse said at a recent celebration dinner with the Invisible Target crew that he was calm about his baby's arrival.
'I'm trying not to work overnight in case the baby is delivered early,' he said. 'It's lucky I'm now like a freelancer so I can have more time to be with my wife.'
Despite this, he then flew to Shanghai to shoot a commercial. 'When I'm not around, I worry about my wife. But she understands this is part of my job and we keep in touch on the phone.'
Tse said he wasn't sure whether he would stay with his wife through her labour as Cheung had yet to decide whether she wanted him there. But he was ready to do so. 'I've acted in many violent films and I've watched a doctor stitching me up, so I think I should be all right,' he said. 'But witnessing a birth could be a totally different experience.'