While Michelle Yeoh’s “biggest sadness” in life is not being able to have kids, the actor has no regrets.
In an interview with The Times published on Sunday, Yeoh, 62, opened up about her first marriage to Dickson Poon, a Hong Kong entrepreneur and CEO.
After they married in 1988, Yeoh decided to retire from her acting career.
“It was my choice. I felt that if I wanted this to work, I had to give it my all. I’d had a good career, a good run of what I was doing,” she said.
“I was in a very good place, and that is the time when you decide what is important. I really wanted to start a family, Yeoh said, who was in her late 20s and known for performing her own stunts in Hong Kong action films.
However, the Everything Everywhere All at Once, star soon learned she could not have children.