Family members have provided details on how former supermodel Rojjana ‘‘Yui’’ Phetkanha, who was reportedly earning 50 million baht a year during the height of her career, ended up impoverished and wandering the streets of Bangkok.
Fall of a supermodel
When former supermodel Rojjana ‘‘Yui’’ Phetkanha was found disoriented on a Bangkok street last week, there wasn't much information about what put her there.
Now family members and colleagues have begun providing details Yui, who was reportedly earning 50 million baht a year during the height of her career is a victim of a mental illness know as 'biopolar disorder”, complicated by excessive drinking and the negative influence of friends.
Family members say Yui had left her stepmother’s home in Maha Sarakham province a week before, after relapsing into her drinking habit
She was heading for Bangkok, where she hoped to stay with her elder brother. Family on her father’s side, who have come forward to discuss her plight say Yui did not get there, and wound up on the streets instead.
Ex-manager Saroj ‘‘Joe’’ na Nakorn said Yui was admitted to psychiatric care in July after an aunt dumped her by a city flyover Joe said Yui can be difficult to manage when she stops taking her medication for her bi-polar disorder.
When she is behaving, however, she can appear lucid functional and beautiful as seen in a recent advertising spread she did for a jewellery brand in Khon Kaen.