Kenneth Tsang’s Daughter Says The Late Actor Complained About Chest Discomfort While In Quarantine The Night Before His Death

Late Hongkong actor Kenneth Tsang, who was found dead in his quarantine hotel room in Kowloon on Wednesday (Apr 27), had complained about chest discomfort the night before his death, revealed his daughter, theatre actress Musette Tsang. 

Musette, his daughter from his second marriage to model Barbara Tang, told Hongkong media that Kenneth had called her saying that his chest felt tight.

Her husband immediately brought medication to the hotel and asked the staff to pass it to him.

The next morning, Musette telephoned her dad, but there was no answer, so she called the hotel and asked them to check on him. 

As he was undergoing quarantine, the hotel needed to get approval from the Department of Health before opening the door. And when they finally managed to do so, Kenneth was already unconscious. He was later pronounced dead at the scene.

The cause of death has not been disclosed.

When Musette met with the media after identifying her dad’s body at the public mortuary in Kwai Chung yesterday (Apr 28), she declined to say whether he was given timely medical help at the hotel.

“There were not many things the hotel could do … there could be a lot of emergencies everyone needed to respond to,” she said.  “We don’t need to make too many speculations.”

She thanked everyone for caring about her father. "I hope he left behind good memories and stories for everyone and that you would remember his young, handsome and wonderful side," she said.

According to Musette, her father was playful, enjoyed life, and often shared snippets of his travels with his family.

To Kenneth, the most important thing in life was to enjoy himself, eat good food, and to get to do what he liked, and he managed to spend his last days doing all that.

When asked about her father's wellbeing before he passed, Musette said he was in pretty good health, both mentally and physically. 

"[Dad] was already so late in his years, so his condition was normal for an elderly person. He had things like high blood pressure, which is normal,” she said.

While she is still shocked by his sudden death, she believes it was also a blessing as he didn't have to suffer from a long illness.

She added that she is in the midst of preparing for the funeral and that their family would like to keep it a low-key affair.

Photos: Kenneth Tsang/Weibo, The Standard, Sinchew