[Sportschosun Lee Woo-joo] Actress Nam Bora opened up about the most difficult period of her life.
On the 23rd, actress Nam Bora appeared on the YouTube channel CGN.
Nam Bora explained why she began attending church regularly, saying, "When I first started working in broadcasting, it was so hard. I wasn't a student who had prepared for it, so the broadcasting environment felt unfamiliar, and I didn't even know how to stand in front of a camera. I was thrown straight into the field, and it was incredibly difficult. I cried almost every day while filming. My mother then said, 'Let's go to dawn prayer together,' so I went to dawn prayer every day and finished one drama."
Nam Bora said that she drifted away from church for a while while continuing her acting career smoothly. "I was very young then, and when things were hard, I only thought about myself. At some point, I felt a deep emptiness inside. Nothing was enjoyable, and I felt depressed. Then I went through another major crisis in my life, and what came to mind was the dawn prayer I used to attend with my mother when I was young," she said. "I went to dawn prayer and prayed a lot, asking, 'Why did You do that?' and venting my resentment."
Nam Bora, who later began volunteering in jjokbangchon and has continued doing good deeds, said, "I was going through a difficult time, and one sentence caught my eye in an alley. It said, 'You have to empty your heart to fill it with something new.' I wondered how I could empty what was inside me, and then I saw volunteers there. I decided I had to empty myself somehow, even if it meant using my body, so I started volunteering."
Nam Bora has previously said on several programs that the hardest time in her life was the death of her younger brother in 2015. In 2022, she appeared on a YouTube channel and said, "My brother didn't come home, so I filed a missing-person report and tracked his phone location, and I had a bad feeling. I wanted to believe it wasn't true, but it was." She added, "I think I held back my emotions. If I let them out, it would have been too hard, so I deliberately tried not to think about it. I thought this pain would last forever, but it's important not to stay in that pain and to overcome it well," drawing sympathy from viewers.
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