Comedian Cho Hye-ryeon revealed that her family strongly opposed her remarriage.
On the 3rd, comedian Cho Hye-ryeon and actor Cho Ji-hwan, siblings, appeared on the YouTube channel 'I Am Happy Every Day,' where they conversed with MCs Park Si-eun and Jin Tae-hyun, a married couple.
During the broadcast that day, Cho Hye-ryeon stated, "My grandmother believed in a different religion. It is so-called Japanese Buddhism. She had believed in that religion for a long time. Our entire family believed in it. Our family was far from Christianity."
She said, "I first came to believe in God 11 years ago. This household has only changed within the last 11 years."
MC Park Si-eun asked, "Your family believed in a different religion, but your husband is a Christian. Did they not oppose it?"
Cho Hye-ryeon replied, "We didn't even see each other's faces," explaining that she faced family opposition due to her husband's religion. She continued, "When my mother heard that my husband was a Christian, she said, 'I am not going to see him. We have our family religion, and it is confusing,' and told my younger brother to investigate the background as well. She said it was very uncomfortable and told me not to come."
Cho Hye-ryeon said, "Because my husband spoke politely to me, I went to church once, and from the next day, I started reading the Bible."
Cho Ji-hwan mentioned that he received a call from his mother while traveling alone. He shared, "My mother said, 'They keep telling me to believe in Jesus. I am going crazy.' I immediately called my sister and said, 'You all can believe if you want. Why are you tormenting our mother who is just sitting quietly?'"
However, Cho Hye-ryeon did not counter the angry reaction of her younger brother Cho Ji-hwan at the time; instead, she immediately acknowledged it by saying, "I understand," and subsequently, the family began to change. Cho Hye-ryeon shared, "It took time, but (my mother also changed) naturally."
Cho Hye-ryeon married in 1998 and had a daughter, Yoon-a, and a son, Woo-ju, but divorced in 2012. She remarried in 2014 and converted to Protestantism at her husband's suggestion. It was previously known that Cho Hye-ryeon had believed in an emerging religion in Japan.
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