[YouTube channel 'Saeroptge Hasoseo']
[YouTube channel 'Saeroptge Hasoseo']

Lee Ji-hye, a former member of the mixed-gender group S#arp, has opened up about her long-running feud with fellow ex-member Seo Ji-young and how the two eventually made peace.

A video titled "Even if I'm an attention-seeker, I'm loved just as I am" was posted Monday on the YouTube channel Saeroptge Hasoseo.

In the video, Lee was asked how things stood between her and Seo following S#arp's disbandment. "When people heard that Ji-young and I had reconciled, a lot of them said, 'What? Really?'" Lee said, noting the surprise the news had generated.

MC Joo Young-hoon then recalled the height of the tension between the two. "To be honest, when things were bad between you two, both of you would call me at one or two in the morning and spend an hour pouring out your frustrations about S#arp," he said. "There was a lot of crying and venting."

Lee acknowledged that the difficulties had not been one-sided. "Ji-young must have had a really hard time too," she said.

Lee said she had been eager to share the story of their reconciliation. "I really wanted to talk about Ji-young. We went to a church retreat, and she was there. We just held each other and cried so much. It wasn't 'Why did you do that back then? Why did you say those things to me?' — we just held each other and cried, and everything melted away. We came to understand each other without any lingering bitterness," she said.

Lee also gave an update on Seo's life, saying the two remain in regular contact. "She came to my house not long ago and even did the dishes before she left. Ji-young's daughter has grown up to be such a good kid," Lee said.

Lee added that when Seo's daughter asked the two to sing a S#arp song, she and Seo performed together in front of their daughters.

Lee Ji-hye and Seo Ji-young debuted together as members of the mixed-gender group S#arp in 1998, but the group disbanded in 2002 amid internal conflict.


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