section_path: Controversies/Drug abuse allegations
section_name: Drug abuse allegations
paragraph_text: Drug abuse allegations
  
  Hsu was accused by multiple people of drug use, but none was confirmed. After their divorce, Hsu's ex-husband Wang Xiaofei repeatedly accused Hsu, along with her sister Dee, of the misuse of the sedative Stilnox through others' prescriptions, an allegation he apologized for on Weibo after first making it in May 2022, calling it "the most regrettable thing in my life" but never disputed its truthfulness. Wang claimed that he used to pay over NT$1 million each month for Hsu's drugs and that "Stilnox ruined my whole family." Hsu refuted the allegations by stating that both she and her sister had “heart conditions” that made drug use unfeasible, and attributed Wang's claim to retaliation after she refused to publicly support his claim of marital fidelity. On March 22, 2023, after Wang attempted to forcibly enter Hsu's residence in Taipei over a child custody dispute, he was taken away to the police station, where he told the police and media that his child was being "illegally detained" by Hsu and he intended to file a report accusing Hsu, along with Dee, of abusing Stilnox. He identified one of Hsu's former classmates as the person who delivered drugs to her on a weekly basis, claiming that evidence could be found in the CCTV footage from her residence at the Taipei Shin-yi complex. However, he left the police station without providing evidence or filing a report.
  
  In June 2023, following multiple allegations of sexual misconduct against Mickey Huang, Dee's ex-boyfriend, he retaliated by accusing numerous celebrities of various offenses in a livestream before attempting self-harm and being hospitalized. Among those named were the Hsu sisters and their associates Aya Liu, Mavis Fan, Lawrence Chou, and Koo Jun-yup, all of whom Huang alleged had used drugs. He specifically claimed that during a trip to South Korea in 2000, he was pressured into taking Ecstasy by Dee, Barbie, and Koo at a hotel. Huang also claimed that Dee had escaped legal consequences after a Next Magazine cover story about her alleged “outdoor Ecstasy sex party” in August 2001, for which Dee, with other named parties, filed civil and criminal suits against the magazine. Dee won the civil trial in 2004 and later reached a settlement following the magazine's appeal, but was unable to withdraw the criminal case once it was taken up by public prosecutors, which led to a 2012 Taiwan Supreme Court ruling that sentenced the magazine's publisher to two months in prison, commutable to a fine, for violating privacy laws. In response to Huang, the Hsu sisters issued a joint statement expressing concern over his emotional state and refuting the allegations, noting that Barbie was not present at the party in question, that a 2004 court ruling had “legally cleared Dee's name,” and that Koo—who had been investigated three times in South Korea for suspected drug use —had publicly denied the rumors in a 2009 press conference. In light of Huang's claims, the Taipei District Prosecutors Office investigated the Hsu sisters, Fan, and Koo—excluding Liu and Chou, who resided abroad and whom Huang did not witness using drugs—by testing their hair and urine samples. Three of the women tested positive for sedatives such as Stilnox, but consistent with prescribed medications from outpatient visits, while Koo tested negative. As for Huang's allegation of being forcibly administered Ecstasy in South Korea, prosecutors found he was unable to provide specific details regarding the time, location, or circumstances. As the incident allegedly occurred outside Taiwan's jurisdiction and beyond the 20-year statute of limitations, the case was closed without charges in May 2024.
  
  In June 2023, shortly after Huang's allegations, Taiwanese paparazzo Ryan Ko claimed on a television program that he had heard from sources about a drug dealer supplying narcotics to the Hsu sisters. In response, Barbie and Dee filed a civil defamation lawsuit against Ko, seeking NT$2 million each in damages. In November, the Taipei District Court ruled that Ko lacked sufficient evidence and ordered him to pay NT$300 thousand to each sister. Ko did not appeal but stated that he lost the civil case—which, unlike a criminal case, does not determine whether he knowingly made a false statement—because he refused to disclose his sources. Ko described the lawsuit as Hsu scapegoating him for Huang, while Hsu's agent Angelina Liao, in a phone call secretly recorded by Ko after falsely assuring that it was off the record, explained that prosecutors had barred them from suing Huang due to the ongoing investigation, an excuse Ko dismissed. The financial burden from the case prompted Ko to seek assistance from Wang, who covered NT$220,000 out of the NT$600,000 Ko was ordered to pay after declining to serve as a witness for Ko in the case. The lawsuit became a turning point that shifted Ko, who had risen to fame for exposing Wang's affairs in May 2022, against the Hsu sisters and in favor of Wang. Initially, the sisters sought to ease Ko's burden by withholding bank account details for the payment, but enforced it in late 2024 after Ko became a de facto mouthpiece for Wang in the ongoing publicity battle.
  
  Hsu was accused by multiple people of drug use, but none was confirmed. After their divorce, Hsu's ex-husband Wang Xiaofei repeatedly accused Hsu, along with her sister Dee, of the misuse of the sedative Stilnox through others' prescriptions, an allegation he apologized for on Weibo after first making it in May 2022, calling it "the most regrettable thing in my life" but never disputed its truthfulness. Wang claimed that he used to pay over NT$1 million each month for Hsu's drugs and that "Stilnox ruined my whole family." Hsu refuted the allegations by stating that both she and her sister had “heart conditions” that made drug use unfeasible, and attributed Wang's claim to retaliation after she refused to publicly support his claim of marital fidelity. On March 22, 2023, after Wang attempted to forcibly enter Hsu's residence in Taipei over a child custody dispute, he was taken away to the police station, where he told the police and media that his child was being "illegally detained" by Hsu and he intended to file a report accusing Hsu, along with Dee, of abusing Stilnox. He identified one of Hsu's former classmates as the person who delivered drugs to her on a weekly basis, claiming that evidence could be found in the CCTV footage from her residence at the Taipei Shin-yi complex. However, he left the police station without providing evidence or filing a report.
  
  In June 2023, following multiple allegations of sexual misconduct against Mickey Huang, Dee's ex-boyfriend, he retaliated by accusing numerous celebrities of various offenses in a livestream before attempting self-harm and being hospitalized. Among those named were the Hsu sisters and their associates Aya Liu, Mavis Fan, Lawrence Chou, and Koo Jun-yup, all of whom Huang alleged had used drugs. He specifically claimed that during a trip to South Korea in 2000, he was pressured into taking Ecstasy by Dee, Barbie, and Koo at a hotel. Huang also claimed that Dee had escaped legal consequences after a Next Magazine cover story about her alleged “outdoor Ecstasy sex party” in August 2001, for which Dee, with other named parties, filed civil and criminal suits against the magazine. Dee won the civil trial in 2004 and later reached a settlement following the magazine's appeal, but was unable to withdraw the criminal case once it was taken up by public prosecutors, which led to a 2012 Taiwan Supreme Court ruling that sentenced the magazine's publisher to two months in prison, commutable to a fine, for violating privacy laws. In response to Huang, the Hsu sisters issued a joint statement expressing concern over his emotional state and refuting the allegations, noting that Barbie was not present at the party in question, that a 2004 court ruling had “legally cleared Dee's name,” and that Koo—who had been investigated three times in South Korea for suspected drug use —had publicly denied the rumors in a 2009 press conference. In light of Huang's claims, the Taipei District Prosecutors Office investigated the Hsu sisters, Fan, and Koo—excluding Liu and Chou, who resided abroad and whom Huang did not witness using drugs—by testing their hair and urine samples. Three of the women tested positive for sedatives such as Stilnox, but consistent with prescribed medications from outpatient visits, while Koo tested negative. As for Huang's allegation of being forcibly administered Ecstasy in South Korea, prosecutors found he was unable to provide specific details regarding the time, location, or circumstances. As the incident allegedly occurred outside Taiwan's jurisdiction and beyond the 20-year statute of limitations, the case was closed without charges in May 2024.
  
  In June 2023, shortly after Huang's allegations, Taiwanese paparazzo Ryan Ko claimed on a television program that he had heard from sources about a drug dealer supplying narcotics to the Hsu sisters. In response, Barbie and Dee filed a civil defamation lawsuit against Ko, seeking NT$2 million each in damages. In November, the Taipei District Court ruled that Ko lacked sufficient evidence and ordered him to pay NT$300 thousand to each sister. Ko did not appeal but stated that he lost the civil case—which, unlike a criminal case, does not determine whether he knowingly made a false statement—because he refused to disclose his sources. Ko described the lawsuit as Hsu scapegoating him for Huang, while Hsu's agent Angelina Liao, in a phone call secretly recorded by Ko after falsely assuring that it was off the record, explained that prosecutors had barred them from suing Huang due to the ongoing investigation, an excuse Ko dismissed. The financial burden from the case prompted Ko to seek assistance from Wang, who covered NT$220,000 out of the NT$600,000 Ko was ordered to pay after declining to serve as a witness for Ko in the case. The lawsuit became a turning point that shifted Ko, who had risen to fame for exposing Wang's affairs in May 2022, against the Hsu sisters and in favor of Wang. Initially, the sisters sought to ease Ko's burden by withholding bank account details for the payment, but enforced it in late 2024 after Ko became a de facto mouthpiece for Wang in the ongoing publicity battle.