Former LOONA member Chuu has shared her first public assertion since her firing by the group’s company Blockberry Creative final week.
Sharing the assertion on her Instagram story final evening (November 29), Chuu started her message by thanking followers for his or her “concern and comfort”, and inserting their belief in her.
She continued: “As I have not received any contact regarding this series of situations or know anything about them, I’m currently grasping the situation, but what I’m sure of is that I haven’t done anything that would be shameful to my fans.”
“In the future, as my position is decided, I will share another statement. Thank you so much for your concern and for trusting in me,” Chuu concluded, in accordance with a translation by Soompi.
The idol was eliminated as a member of LOONA final week (November 25) by Blockberry Creative, with the group’s company alleging Chuu’s “violent language and misuse of power toward our staff” led to her “expulsion” from the group. The choice was met by backlash and skepticism on-line, by each followers and a few business professionals who had beforehand labored with the idol and the group as an entire.
Chuu was absent from a lot of the group’s actions in 2022, together with their ‘LOONATHEWORLD’ tour that kicked off in August. According to a Wikitree report earlier this March, Chuu had additionally filed a lawsuit in opposition to Blockberry Creative to droop her contract – a authorized battle she ‘partially’ gained, in accordance with a Korea JoongAng Daily report final week.
11 members presently stay in LOONA. A report by information outlet JTBC yesterday claimed that 9 of them – HeeJin, HaSeul, YeoJin, Kim Lip, JinSoul, Choerry, Yves, Gowon and Olivia Hye – have filed injunctions following Chuu’s firing to droop their contracts with Blockberry Creative. Blockberry Creative denied this report, calling the claims “groundless”.
Chuu made her debut in 2017 as a founding member of LOONA, and launched her self-titled single album in December that yr. She was additionally a member of the group’s sub-unit LOONA / yyxy, alongside members Yves, Go Won, and Olivia Hye, with which she dropped the 2018 mini-album ‘beauty&thebeat’.