On April 29, new voice recordings were released by YouTuber Lee Jin Ho, revealing personal struggles and the situation surrounding the death of actress Kim Sae Ron.

The recordings include phone conversations between Kim Sae Ron and acquaintances, revealing her emotional state in the days leading up to her passing. In one call, Kim said her boyfriend showed her fortune readings from shamans on YouTube, which were negative and hurtful.

"My boyfriend suddenly showed me the fortunes that Shamans shared about me on YouTube and told me that I was bad, that I should be dead already, and that time had stopped," Kim said in the recording.

In a sobbing voice, Kim described herself as "a flower that had wilted and cannot bloom again because she is a selfish and bad person."

Since last year, she had been getting ready to open a cafe in Mapo with someone she knew from long ago.

Two days before she died, she was talking to people about her cafe opening," Lee said. "But that, too, fell through as she didn't get a follow-up investment.

That was the one hope left for her that was now gone. It was a very lonely life that she really lived. She put all her effort into the entertainment industry as the head of the household, but barely any left-waged.

Lee said that the doomed cafe venture was Kim's "last hope" and added that her loss would leave "an incredibly sad tragedy" in its wake.

To date, there have been both positive and negative responses to the release of these recordings, including several criticisms towards Lee Jin Ho for exposing private details about Kim amid incidents with Kim Soo Hyun.

There has been a lot of public criticism surrounding Kim Sae Ron, particularly after news of her relationship with actor Kim Soo Hyun.

This new material adds further insight into the challenges she faced before her untimely passing.