[2024.03.03] 58 YEAR OLD AMY YIP PLANS TO RETURN TO FILM

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Amy Yip Chi Mei has retired from show business for many years. In recent years she has become active again, as many in the business have caught glimpses of her. The 58 year old was still in great shape. Yip Chi Mei earlier revealed on a Commercial Radio interview that she would return soon. She said that once Philip Chan Yan Kin asked her if she would consider a comeback, she said that she was not interested. Later when more friends in the business asked her whether she would act again, she realized that she still had the acting bug. This year she would plan to return to film, for a character with potential and would not sell sex.

Yip Chi Mei in 1988 entered the film scene. Her first category III film SEX AND ZEN made over HK$ 10 million. Despite being an erotic star she has never performed in the nude. In 1992 she met her chiropractor boyfriend Liu Shek Chiu. Two years ago she retired from show business per her boyfriend's request. He had a family. They lived together for 26 years, until 2018 when Dr. Liu  passed away while on a business trip to Japan from heart disease. Yip Chi Mei said that her boyfriend gave half his asset to his wife in the divorce, even his home. "My boyfriend and I were financially independent, the unit we lived in was under my name." She did not ask for any title then, she did not ask her companion to write a will. After he passed the clinic went to his son. "I don't mind. First we were never married, secondly perhaps he felt he owed his son because of me."

Yip Chi Mei said that her boyfriend knew about his heart problem long ago but refused surgery. Over the years he kept it under control with medication. She said that before her boyfriend left for Japan she seemed to have a premonition. When it happened, her boyfriend's sisters were afraid that she would not be able to take the news. They came to her home in person to tell her. She tried to stay strong but in the end still succumbed to tears. In the interview she broke down when she recalled the past. "No matter how strong a woman is, ultimately we were together for 26 years. Luckily I exercised, which kept me happy and the depression away. Now I am back, all the friends have been great to me. I am at my happiest now."