Sek Loso soap is getting all too real

The battleground now threatens to move from the social media to the courtroom as volleys of legal ordnance fly overhead. Revealing photos of bruises ostensibly inflicted by Sek, Karn is demanding that the authorities step in, telling reporters he has either a drug problem or a mental problem. (He has indeed been to rehab following earlier misbehaviour.)

“I’m sure he has a problem because he’s got two different personalities,” Karn said. She’s been in touch with a social-service agency, “but I know it’s a rather sensitive case”. 

The reporters asked repeatedly whether she wants a divorce, but they couldn’t pin her down, Karn instead maintaining that her priority is to get Sek “cured”. She did allow, though, that they could no longer remain husband and wife. 

Almost simultaneously, Sek made what might be considered a pre-emptive move. Still showing a tendency to share everything with the masses on Facebook, he posted a picture of the provincial court documentation for a lawsuit he’s filed against Karn. It stipulates that a ruling in his favour would cost her Bt25 million. 

Sek didn’t fully explain the suit, only saying it stems from a video she shot that he says damaged his reputation. You have to agree that it does. As seen (inevitably and very widely) on YouTube, it shows Karn attempting to climb a gate to enter their house, with their teenage son in tow. Sek fends her off, and then opens the gate and slaps her in the face. 

The authorities, awoken by the sound of a hand slapping a face, decided to look into Karn’s pleas for assistance. Social Development and Human Security Minister Adul Sangsrikaew, no less, assigned staff to try and sort things out after Karn called the ministry hotline. She’s also been to the cops to file charges. 

It’s safe to say this is not a publicity stunt for Sek’s upcoming concert. No one would be so crazy, surely, as to get government officials involved, especially when most of them are wearing Army fatigues (and yet, curiously, dislike any form of domestic conflict).

Sek’s legal-writ Facebook post notwithstanding, he and his estranged wife have largely kept their war off the social media lately, but Zuckerburg’s loss certainly stands to become the lawyers’ gain. “I’ll see you in court!” is the standard belligerent’s threat in the movies. In the sad case of Sek and Karn, we most probably will, for real.