Actress Lee Ui-jeong revealed her current status after recovering from a brain tumor.

Episode 691 of MBN ‘Special Scoop World’, which aired on the 12th, revealed Lee Ui-jeong’s daily life as she suffers from the aftereffects of her brain tumor.

Lee Ui-jeong went on a broadcast to work out with her boyfriend Jang Su-ho, who is 9 years younger than her.Lee Ui-jeong confessed, “It’s so hard to lose weight.But I did lose some weight.” Jang Su-ho said, “It’s okay.You’re pretty even if you don’t lose weight.” Lee Ui-jeong replied, “You used to tease me all the time, telling me to lose weight, but now you say I’m pretty even if I don’t.”

Lee Ui-jeong is currently on a diet.It is for her health.Her boyfriend Jang Su-ho, a former judo athlete, is helping her diet.Jang Su-ho explained, “I am only carefully making her do the three most basic exercises, simple back exercises, waist exercises, and pelvic exercises.”


Lee Ui-jeong, who followed her boyfriend into lower body exercise, complained of pain as soon as she started.Lee Ui-jeong said, “It’s been over 10 years since I had hip surgery, and it’s all worn out now.He said, ‘I wish I could live 10 more years by working out and building up the muscles around it.’ I’m scared because if the second surgery goes wrong, I’ll end up ‘having to be in a wheelchair for the rest of my life.’”

Lee Ui-jeong was diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor in 2006 and given three months to live.This is a fact she has mentioned on several broadcasts.Lee Ui-jeong revealed, “I went to the emergency room, had CT scan, and an MRI, and they told me my condition was so bad that I didn’t have much time to live.I was given three months to die.I started marking an X on the calendar as each day passed.It was almost like living a day.Because of that, my left side became paralyzed, and five years later, necrosis developed on the other side.That was hip necrosis.” Although she was diagnosed as completely recovered from her brain tumor, the aftereffects are serious.She had hip necrosis and underwent artificial joint surgery, and has been in rehabilitation for 15 years.

In addition to rehabilitation exercises, she is still taking medication.Lee Ui-jeong said, “After the surgery, I was completely healed and recovered, but my sleeping function was damaged.I have a non-organic sleep disorder.My brain doesn’t sleep.Since my brain doesn’t sleep, it becomes overloaded.Then, the same disease can come back,” and “I have to take 18 pills a day for 15 years to sleep.”


Due to the drug, Lee Ui-jeong has a hard time waking up.Lee Ui-jeong said, “If you take a drug that puts your brain to sleep, you won’t remember anything.And there is a time when your brain rests.Until that time, you will continue to sleep.That’s why the drug and(symptoms)are different from other people.”

Lee Ui-jeong couldn’t even eat as she pleased.Lee Ui-jeong said, “The gallbladder has completely lost its function.Its function was completely dead, so I had my gallbladder removed.In the case of my uvula, because I injected a lot of steroids into my blood vessels, the muscles became stretched, and I was told that if I did it wrong, it could block my airway, so I had my uvula removed while I had my tonsils removed.”

Hong Se-young, reporter for Donga.com projecthong@donga.com

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