Lee Ji Hoon has come forward to reveal that the whole controversy was due to a misunderstanding. He wrote:
“Hello. This is Lee Ji Hoon. I’m sorry for only speaking up honestly now. Firstly, regardless of reason, I’m sincerely sorry for the conflict that arose between my friend and the on site floor director. To be honest, I’m not sure what conversation flowed between the two. But it was my mistake that my friend came on set to pass me a gift.. I’m sorry if during that process, the floor director felt uncomfortable. I sincerely apologize. I will take sure caution to make sure friends do not visit the site in the future. However, if it is okay, I hope you will listen to what I have to say…because I want to speak honestly.. There have been many distorted words and exaggerations… I think it cannot go on so I am speaking.. I have always gotten along fine with other staff on site during filming, without any large issues.. Although I’m lacking in terms of skills, I still struggle and try my best to be good at acting… If I were to speak honestly, the floor director has actually treated my manager, the extras and even the reporters that came on site for interviews, and myself, roughly.. After seeing that, as I am human too, I was not feeling great. Those other people are also working together with him, so it is true that I was in doubt as to why he could not speak to them nicely or why he treated them so roughly. I tried to think of it positively as the staff, actors and managers could all be uncomfortable on site. If there had been no happenings prior, I wouldn’t have thought of the floor director like that either. I still keep in contact with the other floor directors, staff and camera directors that I’ve worked with during these 9 years.. How can you say I’m power-tripping.. Watching the videos and reading the posts about me, to be honest, when my company first released a statement, I only apologized to the parts which were my mistake.. It was not right for me to apologize for things I did not do. But because I kept seeing things being made up, I thought it could not go on and am writing a post…truthfully.
The first thing that was distorted was that day, it wasn’t a birthday party for me set up by my friend but thankfully, it was my fans. Two of my fans prepared meals for all of the staff from early morning and they came to congratulate me at the basement carpark, after morning filming concluded, for a very short time. Second, the issue about me removing my pants and throwing a fit, I can swear on my name that it never happened. This is the truth that all staff on site will have witnessed and known. During outdoor filmings, whenever there was no place for me to change clothing, I’ve always changed in the cars, toilets, on the streets or corridors, and whenever that happens, my staff would cover me.”
