Due fights melee claims, cops 'rear-ended me', it's a boy

Actress denies she started fight

Due

Bad girl actress Arisara “Due” Tongborisud denies she started a fight in a city pub as claimed by her alleged victim, the daughter of a former Pheu Thai Party MP,  who has now lodged a police complaint.

Due, 27, who has a well-publicised history of getting into fights, including a schoolyard scrap caught on video about 12 years ago in which she forced a fellow teen to prostrate at her feet by way of apology, has found herself at the centre of a new fight controversy, but denies she was the aggressor.

Kawisara Na Kalasin, daughter of the ex-MP, laid a complaint with Thong Lor police claiming Due assaulted and injured her in a nightclub tussle about 2am on Oct 7.

Due, who went before the media last week to show off bruises which she claims she suffered in the melee, said news reports had suggested she was to blame.

Netizens dug up an old clip of her fight with the teen, and also recalled a pub fight about seven years ago in which Due and a group of friends attacked the younger sister of Miss Maxim 2009 winner Patchuda “Maple” Panpipat after she drew close to a former tomboy girlfriend of hers.

“I am actually the injured party, not the other way around. I live my life like any other teen,” Due insisted last week.

The actress said she was heading to the toilets with a couple of her younger friends when the fight broke out. The place was crowded. As she was waiting, the complainant bumped into her, so she pushed back. 

She recognised Kawisara, 25, who was accompanied by a bodyguard, as the friend of a friend. Due claims the young woman poked her in the head and forced her onto the ground, where she, the complainant, her bodyguard and several guards from the nightspot joined the melee. 

“We hit each other, and she was with a bodyguard, so those from the nightspot joined in until we had 8-9 people involved in the tussle, but no one was helping me,” she complained.

“People pulled at my arms and legs, and I suffered bruising to both,” she said, hiking up her dress to give reporters a look.

“A junior of mine jumped in to help. She wouldn’t let go until my junior bit her, when she finally released me. I asked her: Are you so fashionable you have to bring a bodyguard? I was angry because I didn’t start it. She took off her Rolex and asked someone to look after it, then challenged me to bring it on ... she was still showing off.”

Due, often cast as the female villain in soap operas, said Kawisara also threatened to get her father involved. 

The drama ended without further incident, despite both sides vowing to clear the matter the next day. The actress said a friend of Kawisara’s called her later and offered an apology, as did the nightspot. 

She agreed to meet the young woman and thought the matter had died, only to get news that Kawisara had since laid a complaint. 

“I have evidence, as I saw a doctor after the fight,” Due said. “I didn’t know what to expect as she had threatened me with her dad.

“I don’t want people judging me on my past, as I have changed. Society has to give me another chance. I am doing the same for her, offering her the opportunity to apologise.”

The actress, who sees Pai “One Point” Lik, a former Pheu Thai MP under the Yingluck Shinawatra government, said the two had drawn closer after her fight drama.

While he was content to let her fix the problem, as it was a matter between women only, he had told her that if a man tried to step into the fight row, he would come to her aid.

“It is comforting to have him there, even though we have differences over age and the people we mix with. I tend to be on the strong side, so much so we almost broke up a short time ago, but I am now trying to appease him,” she said.

The young woman who laid the complaint has yet to comment to the media.

DJ tries to salvage reputation

Keng, above, and his vehicle mishap, left

Disgraced DJ Pattarasak “Keng” Thiemprasert, caught out lying after claiming a motorist rear-ended him in a famous road rage attack last year, now has legitimate reason to complain about his vehicle being mistreated.  

Keng last week took a poke at police for damaging his pickup at the centre of the dispute.

Din Daeng police have been holding on to his black Toyota Vigo pickup as his case makes its way through the courts. Last week Keng, who makes occasional visits to the station to check on his vehicle, said he was dismayed to find police had parked another vehicle up its rear.

Keng is trying to rehabilitate his reputation after the road rage melee, in which he rammed his pickup into a Toyota Yarris but blamed the other driver for the scrape, only to find his actions had been filmed. 

In remarks left on social media, the DJ said he turned up at the station to find his vehicle had been moved along with several others to the side of a nearby water treatment pond. His post shows the front of a patrol car jammed against the back of his truck.

“I am not sure whether to feel defeated, angry, or sad,” he declared. “I have just found out that this is how they park vehicles!” Police had crushed his vehicle’s rear, damaging the bodywork.

The Bangkok North Municipal Court in March last year sentenced Keng to three months in jail for the road rage attack, which was caught on security cameras. Keng is appealing against the ruling.

“They took an old patrol vehicle no longer in use and parked it up my pickup’s rear. I see it also has a smashed tail light and dents which weren’t there before,” Keng said. “I hope they can do a better job than this, as even vehicles involved in legal action still have owners who care for them.”

Responding to his complaint, Din Daeng police said they had taken delivery of some new police cars and made room for them by moving three or four vehicles involved in legal cases from the car park to the side of the pond.

A certain amount of damage could be expected as vehicles were being stored, as space was limited, they said, while denying, mysteriously, that they had damaged it. 

Since Keng’s complaint, police said they had towed his vehicle back to the car park where it was stored originally.

Keng thanked them for their efforts and said he did not intend to pursue the matter further.

Actress’s mum still ‘up in the air’

Mukda, Neung

The mother of a former Channel 7 actress who absconded from home eight months ago and has since fallen pregnant to her airline captain husband says she believes her daughter is expecting a boy.

Mukda Boonthong said she had yet to hear from her daughter Panthothong “Gunjaezol” Boonthong since the young woman published an image of her taking a meal with husband,  Chanat “Nat” Lertpattanathai. She appears heavily pregnant.

The image was republished widely, prompting an anguished response from the young woman’s parents and younger sister, who said Gunjaezol, or Zol, had left home eight months ago in a huff and refused to contact them since. 

Mrs Boonthong, married to veteran actor Nukkid “Neung” Boonthong, said she had sent Zol a message telling her she could come home if she was no longer happy with the airline captain. She had not replied.

“A member of Zol’s fan club heard she has been for an ultrasound scan and has a baby boy, but I’m not sure when she is expecting,” she told the media.

“We have also tried contacting Nat’s family. Even though they know where the couple are holing up, they won’t say. We can’t accept it. He took our daughter and now they are covering it up. If she comes back as a result of social pressure, but still feels no remorse for causing our family so much hurt, I am not sure I can forgive her,” she said frankly. 

Earlier, her husband Neung said Zol and his would-be son-in-law walked out of their lives when they were discussing the young couple’s plans to get married.

The actor said her daughter left home on Feb 8. Later, he found out the couple quietly registered their marriage on Feb 14. 

Later still, Nat took Zol to Channel 7 where they asked to be let out of her contract. One report earlier this month said Zol, who has yet to talk to the media, is expecting within days.