A former manager of comedian Park Na-rae revealed shocking details related to the so-called injection auntie.
On the 24th, SBS's Unanswered Questions examined the controversy sparked by comedian Park Na-rae and focused on A, an injection auntie accused of performing illegal medical procedures on famous entertainers.
That day, Park Na-rae's former manager, Mr. B, also agreed to an interview. Mr. B worked as Park Na-rae's manager for three years and is currently engaged in litigation with Park Na-rae. The injection auntie allegations were also first raised by Mr. B. Mr. B said, "It was the Kimhae shoot. That day, suddenly someone came to the hotel — short, really an average middle-aged woman. You could tell at a glance she wasn't a doctor. I saw her once then; she gave an injection and left right away." Mr. B said he never saw the injection auntie in Kimhae again after that day.
On the other hand, Mr. B said he had regularly seen A, who is known as Park Na-rae's injection auntie. He explained, "I went to pick up Park Na-rae as usual. But someone was at the house. She was carrying a gray suitcase and said, 'Narae, I'm about to remove the IV, so please wait a bit' — that was A." Mr. B said he first saw injection auntie A around April 2023.
Mr. B also said he had been introduced to A by Park Na-rae as a doctor and so had assumed she was one. But Mr. B said, "In November that year I went to film the variety show I Live Alone. From then on something felt off. It was like she was secretly going somewhere after talking with Park Na-rae."
On the second morning of the Taiwan shoot, what the former manager feared happened. Mr. B recalled, "After the first day's shoot, the cast all drank together. But the next morning, Park Na-rae was like, 'Bring A unni quickly. I feel like I'm going to die from the alcohol,' and she had medicines spread out in the hallway and was getting an IV. They told production, 'We're getting an IV so we can't meet the prep time; can you delay?'"
Ultimately, when the shoot schedule was affected, a fierce argument broke out between production staff and A. The former manager said, "When production asked, 'Who are you?' B said, 'I know the MBC president and others,' and then they argued for more than 30 minutes, saying, 'How dare you barge in and shout like that.' Everyone who witnessed the situation said, 'This person is strange. She doesn't seem like a doctor,'" he revealed.
Park Na-rae's reaction was no different. The manager said, "She felt the same way and had said so, so I told her to go to a hospital to get prescriptions and stop getting injections. She said she understood." But the problem did not end there. Manager Mr. B said, "When returning from Taiwan to Korea, Narae met A in the airport restroom and planned to get an IV. It was ridiculous, so I dragged her out and put her in the car," he said.
Just when it seemed the matter was over, A got into the car after Park Na-rae. In the end, Park Na-rae traveled while receiving an IV in the car. Mr. B revealed, "She even got it in the set waiting room, for about an hour to an hour and a half. A mixed various liquids and made five to six syringes. Then they would keep injecting the person hooked to the IV in the back, thigh, or arm. She continued to receive medicine up until the day before I left the job. I really couldn't stop it."
Over the past three years, just the conversations between the manager and A about drugs amounted to at least 24 illegal prescriptions and at least six IV injections. So why did Park Na-rae seek injection auntie A instead of a hospital? Former manager Mr. B said, "A acts like a doctor to Park Na-rae. She tells them what she needs and how much she needs. Then A would give us a month's or two months' worth. Park Na-rae would split them into two and take them according to her needs. Hospitals don't do that, but A would supply medicine whenever it ran out. That's why they went to A."
However, at A's home, which production visited for the broadcast, husband Mr. C made entirely different claims. Mr. C said, "It's absurd that entertainers thought she was a doctor," and added, "She met entertainment company bosses through political connections; she never met anyone at a hospital." He went on, "My wife is currently unable to administer injections. She's left-handed but has developed rigidity," and insisted, "We are not injection aunties. The real injection auntie is someone else."
Regarding the drugs and medical devices found at their home, he claimed, "They are medicines used when she worked as director of the Korean plastic surgery center at Baogang Clinic in Inner Mongolia, China," and added, "Baogang Clinic is a large hospital, and my wife was appointed a special professor." He also released past interview footage.
Mr. B emphasized, "She never performed medical procedures in Korea. The medicines were ones prescribed by hospitals that she gave to Narae to try," and said, "The IV was only once; she put it in because Narae asked to lose some weight before an awards ceremony." He added, "She never received money nor gained financially. That makes the sense of betrayal even greater," and claimed they too are victims.
[photo] SBS's Unanswered Questions broadcast capture
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