Rocker Sek Loso is under fire after admitting he has fathered an infant son but has since left the child's mother for someone else.
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Rocker Sek Loso is under fire after admitting he has fathered an infant son but has since left the child's mother, a Channel 7 actress, for someone else.
Sek last week published a picture of himself, his three-month old son Leon and the child's mother, Paphada "Sandwich" Chotikawanitch, whom he started seeing last year.
He asked netizens to welcome the youngster into the world without mentioning he had since left Sandwich to raise the child alone.
Sek's former wife, Wiphakorn "Kan" Sukpimai, was the first to respond to Sek's news, criticising him for breaking a promise to keep the child's birth a secret until he had told the three children from their marriage.
They found out from the media they now had a young half-sibling.
Unflustered by the criticism, Sek admitted later in the week he is now seeing the 2009 Miss Maxim beauty contest runner-up, Apisaya "Eve" Pattanaworasap but has yet to call off his relationship with Sandwich.
"I am seeing Eve seriously but am not sure if I am still seeing Sandwich. I have no problem with it, but you will have to ask her. I reckon I have many more children in my past but can't say if I have many more wives," he said.
Sek's news that he was a father again didn't go smoothly for the rocker, as critics Sandwich, her father and Kan attacked him for his conduct.
Kan, who divorced Sek last year, said she and Sandwich talk regularly about Sek as they both know him as former lovers. Sandwich reached out to her when he started behaving oddly.
"Sandwich tells me he has gone back to his strange ways of the past, which I last saw back in the days when he was taking hard drugs. She says he talks to the fridge and sees things which aren't there. After hearing Sandwich and I were in contact, Sek started to worry we would get a psychiatrist to commit him to care," Kan said, denying the two had any such plans afoot.
"He posted details of his new son to get at me, as he knows our three children [from their marriage together] are my sensitive point. News he has a new child in his life might hurt their feelings."
In January 2012, Sek admitted himself to a detox hospital for treatment after Kan outed him as a hard drugs user on social media.
Sandwich's father, who agreed Sek had broken a promise to keep word of the child's birth a secret, said he was unfazed by Sek's remarks that he had since taken up with another woman.
"You can be a philanderer if you like, but you must pay women some respect if you want to be regarded as a man; you can't do it indiscriminately like a dog," he said in widely quoted remarks.
Sandwich's father said he was present at the hospital when his daughter gave birth, unlike Sek, who was busy. In Sek's absence, he also gave baby Leon his surname on the baby's birth certificate. The rocker says he intends to change it to his own surname once he has arranged the paperwork.
Responding later in the week to taunts he had been showing some peculiar ways, Sek joked he talked to the fridge, computer and air-con unit too, as it was hard to get sense out of people these days.
"Oh, fridge with special powers, tell me, who is the smartest one in all the land?" he wrote.
Sandwich said she had never moved in with Sek even from the outset, so it was inaccurate to say the two had now parted ways.
