Exclusive | Hong Kong star Coco Lee’s husband Bruce Rockowitz speaks out after singer’s fans confront him at cremation service
- Bruce Rockowitz tells the Post he has ‘100 per cent nothing to do with’ the death
- He speaks out after Lee fans from mainland China hurl vile abuse at him at service
The husband of late Hong Kong pop diva Coco Lee has defended himself against accusations from her fans that he was responsible for her depression and death and said that he had nothing to do with her decision to end her life.
“I have 100 per cent nothing to do with her death,” Bruce Rockowitz told the Post on Tuesday.
He was speaking after fans of the star confronted him at the Cape Collinson Crematorium in Chai Wan earlier in the day and blamed him for the suicide attempt that led to Lee’s death.
The finale of a two-day funeral descended into chaos in the late morning when several fans from mainland China hurled abuse at him, calling him a “murderer” and someone with “no conscience”, and demanding that he “give me back my Coco”.
Rockowitz told the Post: “I don’t know what was said to me during the cremation because I don’t know Chinese very well. That was not very nice.”
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The businessman, 64, who arrived in Hong Kong in the late 1970s, said his relationship with Lee, who was 48, lasted for 20 years before she took her own life earlier this month.