Andie Chen battled depression when family moved to Taipei in 2020

Taipei-based Singaporean actor Andie Chen has opened up about a dark time in his life.

- Jan Lee

The 39-year-old star uploaded a reel to his Instagram account on April 1 and revealed he previously struggled with depression. This was when he and his Taiwanese wife, actress Kate Pang, 42, moved to Taipei from Singapore in 2020 with their two children – a son, 10, and daughter, eight.

In the clip, he said he struggled with parenting the kids, then aged six and four, alone in a foreign city whenever Pang went overseas for work. He said those periods "nearly broke" him, adding that they sometimes caught him crying in bed.

In the reel, which includes clips of his children playing and doing their chores around the home, Chen said things eventually got better.

In a follow-up interview with local Chinese-language newspaper Lianhe Zaobao, which was published on April 3, Chen said he originally moved to Taipei to expand his career, but the move coincided with the Covid-19 pandemic.