13 Facts About Betty Ting

Betty Ting is a Taiwanese former actress who was mainly active in the 1970s.

Betty Ting was born as Tang Mei-li in Taipei City, Taiwan, Republic of China on 19 February 1947.

Betty Ting's comes from a medical family of the three generations.

Betty Ting's uncle was Zhang Xueliang and her maternal grandfather was Bao Yulin, the chief police officer of the Beiping Police Bureau during the Warlord era.

Betty Ting started her acting career with Central Motion Picture Corporation in 1963.

Betty Ting was a regular of director Inoue Umetsugu, for whom she performed in the musicals, The Millionaire Chase, The Yellow Muffler, and The Steam Stealers.

In 1973, Betty Ting became a freelance actress and continued to make films both in her native Taiwan and Hong Kong.

In 1972, just after her six months in Switzerland, Betty Ting first met Bruce Lee at the original Hyatt Regency Hong Kong while he was with his wife Linda Emery and Raymond Chow, the owner of Golden Harvest.

On 20 July 1973, Betty Ting received media attention when Lee died in her apartment at 67 Beacon Hill Road, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong.

Betty Ting gave him a single tablet of Equagesic, a strong aspirin-based drug that she often used herself.

In 1976, Betty Ting married Charles Heung and they had a daughter Candy Heung in 1977, Betty Ting and Heung divorced in 1980, after which she would devoted her time to Buddhism practices and helped the local Buddhist community in Hong Kong.

In 2006, during a radio interview Betty Ting admitted that she and Lee had been lovers for more than a year before his death.

In 2008, she revealed that she had already written more than 7,000 words and that Taiwan, Hong Kong, Mainland China and Overseas authors had offered to serve as her co-author, the project was halted indefinitely as Betty Ting said that it was not "the right time" due to its complicated contents which involved other people.