Rocker’s back in care
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| Sek |
Rocker Sek Loso has been admitted to psychiatric care after his family feared his bipolar disease would result in his taking his own life.
Sek’s former wife, the couple’s 21 year-old son and Sek’s live-in lover pulled off a plot last week to get him into care after Sek’s marathon Facebook session conducted from home looked like it might end in danger to himself or others.
The veteran rocker is now getting help at Srithanya Hospital in Thon Buri after his former wife, Wiphakorn “Kan” Sukpimai, their son Sua, and Sek’s lover Apisaya “Eve” Pattanaworasap on Aug 18 managed to persuade three men from the hospital to enter his Sai Mai townhouse on the pretext they were from a charity foundation and had come to pick up donated goods.
Sek had spent the previous five days in a live Facebook session before the men in the van turned up. The rocker, who feared for his safety and had started hallucinating, had given instructions to security not to let anyone in without his consent.
Sua, whose name appears on the title deed and is his only relative with the legal authority to enter the property, had earlier spoken to the juristic entity which agreed to let him in. However, when he turned up later that night, the security guard refused access.
They had to revise the plan on the spot. Under this plan, men from the hospital would turn up in a van and pass themselves off as charity workers there to pick up goods donated by Sek’s fans.
Kan, Eve and Sua, who appeared on television later in the week to discuss how the plan unfolded, said the men from the hospital charged at Sek, who initially put up resistance but when he realised he was outnumbered agreed to go with them. His live broadcast abruptly went dead, though like an irrepressible spirit Sek popped up again three hours later to tell fans he was okay and would be back with them soon.
Sek had earlier burst into tears and admitted he was unwell, promising fans he would seek treatment for his condition to put their worries at rest. “I know I am mad. I will see a doctor at Srithanya; if that doesn’t work, I will try somewhere else. If I still can’t get cured in Thailand I will look overseas,’’ he said.
The rocker, whom ex-wife Kan said had suffered from bipolar disease for 10 years, was last treated as an in-patient at the hospital in 2014, after Kan outed him on social media for taking heroin.
She said she feared for his safety after psychiatrists, remarking on his general condition based on his FB live session, suggested he had entered the “final stage”. Eve, who was holed up alone with him after Sek fired his staff, said she had hidden knives and other sharp objects from the home during one of the few moments during his FB session when Sek caught some sleep.
The trio revealed they had earlier plotted to give Sek a knock-out drug, and had ordered it from the internet. They also obtained some sleeping pills from a local hospital but were afraid they would be too weak to work when secretly mixed with his food or drink.
Under this plan, Eve was supposed to lace his food with the drugs, and once Sek had fallen asleep they were to enter his home and take him to hospital. Sua said he turned up outside his father’s place on Aug 16 waiting for the plan to take effect, but found his father did not fall asleep as expected.
On the TV show, Eve confessed she did not have the courage to lace his food with the drug, to the surprise of the other two. “You were worried he’d die, weren’t you,” Kan joked. “You deceived us!”
Sua, who studies in the United States and has been in Bangkok on a three-month break, said he last visited his father at the end of May. “I couldn’t stay in that house. It’s filthy. The place was full of dog and cat poo,” he said.
Sua asked his father why he spent his days in the tiny room in which he filmed his FB live session. Sek, he said, thought the room was actually a temple. “Cleaning it would bring bad luck,” he told his son.
When Sua suggested his father was seeing things, Sek replied that Sua had not made enough merit in life so wasn’t “blessed” enough to see the things he could.
Asked why she decided to help, Kan said she knows she risks another tirade of abuse from her former husband, with whom she has been at loggerheads for years. However, he was still the father of their three children, including two school-age youngsters, and she couldn’t bear to see netizens making fun of Sek as he carried on his FB live sessions.
Sua added: “I want people to see my father as unwell. People who make fun of his condition and treat him as a figure of fun do not understand the disease.”
Eve said Sek had last been to see the doctor about his bipolar condition late last year. Perhaps unwisely, the physician told the patient that he was almost better, so Sek stopped taking his medicine.
By week’s end, the family was in better shape, with the trio visiting the ailing rocker in hospital. Kan, who hailed Sua as the hero of the saga, said her son bought a bunch of flowers for his father which they took with them to the hospital, shortly before she dropped off Sua at the airport for his return trip to the US.
In a moving scene, the two secretly watched Sek as he tried to arrange the flowers to his liking.
“When we had left him alone, we took a look back at him to see how he behaves when alone,” she wrote on social media. “Sek took the flowers and put them by the side of his bed. He turned them this way and that until he found the right place. We watched and were almost in tears.
“Seeing this, Sua, who will be away for months, asked me to arrange a basket of flowers for him every week...on a Thursday, because Sua was born that day. He also wanted big flowers, but just seven of them, because his dad was born on the seventh.
“Please do this until he comes out of hospital. Also tell him that Sua asked you to arrange it every week,” his son told her. Kan added: “I hope you will feel better, Sek, and we can wait for our son to come home.”
She also published pictures of Sua at the airport, and their children when they were much younger. “No matter how much we may hate each other at times, misunderstand each other and get angry, the ties which bind a family together can never be rendered asunder,” she wrote. Doctors say Sek is still getting treated and cannot say when he will be released. The saga continues.
Marriage in air for Mike’s ex
Italian-Thai model Sarah Casinghini has found a new lover, and hopes to marry in coming months after she told her mother she wanted this love to be the last in her life.
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| Sarah, Christian |
Sarah, who has a son, Maxwell, born to her former love, singer and actor Pirat “Mike” Nitipaisankul, said her status as a single mum was no deterrent to her new man, a US-based doctor born to a mix of Thai, Chinese, Dubai, and Vietnamese ancestry, called Christian.
She said the two had known each other as friends for two years, so when they started talking about romance, they just clicked. “He is a doctor in the US working in the field of stem cells, though his family is involved in business. However, I don’t want him just because he’s rich. I want someone I can be with into old age, not the type who plays around,” she said.
The two had started talking about marriage and met each other’s families. If they did get hitched, she would probably move to the US, which leaves unclear the question of how often Mike would get to see their son. “Mike has met him, and asked me if I was okay with him, as he is worried about me,” she said. Maxwell liked Christian, and parents on both sides were discussing the couple’s engagement plans.
Asked about a dowry, Sarah said that was up to Christian. “I don’t expect anything, as I live day to day, but ask that this be the last love for me,” she said.
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