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Mother kicks actor son out of home

Mae Moo

The mother of a young singing and acting star says she has chased her son and his girlfriend from the family home, days after the pair were embroiled in a fuss over a leaked chat involving actress Nida "Tangmo" Patcharaveerapong.

Ketwarong Hongladaromp said she had turfed her son, Kasidej "Karn" Hongladaromp, 19, and his girlfriend, singer/actress Hathaichanok "Sai" Suansri, 25, from her home as she was tired of their antics.

In a no-holds-barred attack on social media, Mrs Ketwarong said Sai slept over with Karn, liked to leave her used underwear lying about his bedroom, thought nothing of borrowing her own items when she had run out, and had taken to encouraging her son to criticise her.

"I have driven them both from home. I hope they enjoy living together so they can appreciate just what is involved in family life other than sharing a bed," she wrote, posting an image of Sai's underwear, face towels and dirty socks which she said the youngster liked to leave strewn about for her to wash.

"Her bras are scattered all over the room. She goes through those towels as if she is staying at a high-class hotel, and when she is done takes mine. She never bothers to wash them. I can tell you my patience has run out, even if this is the end of our relationship," she wrote.

"The simplest of things fail to get through to her. She behaves as if the Buddha charm I gave her makes her impervious to criticism.

"She likes to boast about her education, but what kind of upbringing is this? She is great at exposing others' failings, as if she is perfect herself. Don't criticise me in response to my jibes, or you might put at risk the sassy, innocent, pretty-girl image you like to cultivate," Mrs Ketwarong said, referring to Sai.

She added she had taken a trove of such incriminating pictures which she was happy to release to the media and the pair's singing label KPN if Sai, who did she did not name in her posts, wanted to draw out the saga.

Karn won the 2015 KPN singing contest, while co-contestant Sai, heir to a Thai likay (musical folk drama) dynasty, was named runner-up. News reports refer flatteringly to Sai's education pedigree, after she graduated from Chulalongkorn University with a bachelor's degree, first class honours.

Unimpressed, Mrs Ketwarong refers to her as chanee kiartniyom, or the gibbon with honours, citing a disparaging term for women.

Her social media barbs came to light days after Sai and Karn were linked to a leaked social media chat involving actress Tangmo, whom initial reports suggested was seeing Karn on the sly and trying to break up his relationship with the hapless Sai.

Tangmo, who was forced to come forward to clear up the chat saga after Karn chose to stay silent, said many youngsters approach her out the blue for advice, and so it was with Karn, whom she did not know previously.

"He asked me about his relationship [with Sai], but that's as far as it went," she said.

However, Sai misunderstood what was happening and thought Tangmo was trying to break up their relationship. One day she impersonated her absent boyfriend in chat with Tangmo.

The actress, who is almost 10 years older, said she knew immediately Sai was not the real thing, but played along with the act, asking Karn if he was prepared to leave his girlfriend to take up with her.

When she tired of that, she told Sai she knew she was impersonating her boyfriend and she could stop pretending. "I have tried all these tricks in chat myself. Starting from the love heart you sent me, I knew you were not for real. How do you feel, young one … embarrassed?" she asked.

Unsurprisingly, Tangmo's putdown brought the chat to a sudden halt. Tangmo later apologised for the stunt, as she didn't want to hurt anyone's feelings.

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