On October 28, 2020, when an anonymous letter appeared on the online forums in South Korea where a woman claimed to be EXO's Chanyeol's former girlfriend, exposing him for cheating on her with over 10 other women, including other girl group members, her own acquaintances as well as flight attendants, it took over all of the Internet at once. Fans didn't know what to believe.
The letter read as follows:
"I don't know if I'm allowed to post photos, so I took the photos down, but I can reupload it if anyone needs proof.
Hi Chan__. I don't know if you read this online community or not. I've decided to write something like this, which I never did, to expose you. You must be surprised to see something written from me when you thought we had broken up. Well, I feel dirty and disgusting, thinking about the three years you have tricked me. Chan__ this is the karma you brought onto yourself.
We started dating when you asked one of my acquaintances for my number. We began officially dating when you asked me out.
Then I found out the shocking truth since the three years we've been dating.
I tried not to believe in anything unless I see with my own eyes and hear with my own years. I even believed you when you denied everything.
But you were somebody else's first experience as you had one night stands with other people. I was so ignorant as you slept with new women while I was asleep.
You were so busy living a dirty life. There were so many various types of women like girl group members, YouTube streamers, flight attendants, and more. Did you enjoy yourself?
You're very well-known.
Everyone around you knew how dirty you were except me.
Really, everyone knows about except me and your fans.
I thought it was strange when you weren't able to defend me when the member you don't like tried flirting with me without knowing our relationship.
You weren't even able to express your dissatisfaction in that situation and only cursed about him behind his back. I now realized it was because you couldn't be confident with your actions. I told you as a joke that if you're going to cheat on me, don't let me know about it.
But you cheated on me quite a lot...
I heard there were ten or more from what I heard C.yeol.
If you were a decent human being, you shouldn't have done that with my acquaintances. After less than two days, we broke up. You called, and I told you about everything I heard, but you acted like you didn't know anything. I told you the names of the girls you slept with; you stayed silent for three seconds, then you said, 'She what?' I was so baffled.
But you know what? I recorded that because there are victims who wanted to hear what your excuses were.
Do you know what's funny? You never said you don't know the girls I names who you slept around with. It would help if you had at least pretended you didn't. It would help if you thought so light of me. You weren't even afraid. What makes that of me who was tricked by you for three years?
If there's a fault with me, It's that I didn't know you were this kind of a prick and tried to shield you, trusted you, and have no taste in people.
I think that's the only fault that I have.
I tried to hide the photos we took together just if it got out to the public, and I thought it would cause you trouble in your work. So I didn't even tell my close friends that I had a boyfriend.
I trusted you when you told me you would die if your music industry career were affected by girl-problems. So I was busy trying to shield you.
Please become a decent human being.
I won't mention anything else other than this that can become a bigger issue.
You probably know what those are about.
My heart drops when I hear your name.
I wish the people of the world know how bad of a person you are.
Don't contact me."
The woman also added photos of what looked like the couple with the woman's figure blacked out.
However, fans were quick to point out that the authenticity of the photos was up for questioning.
One Korean Netizen pointed out that Chanyeol's figure in the photos seems to have a white outline around it which likely means that he was photoshopped into those photos. The woman also stated that the alleged ex-girlfriend claimed to have dated Chanyeol from 2017, but he did not have the tattoo 'L-1485' on his arm at that time.
Another argument presented was that first photo provided by the alleged ex-girlfriend seemed too awkward. The Korean Netizen claimed that it was very rare for a couple to celebrate a 790-day anniversary and no one really did that. Besides, the flower that Chanyeol is holding is too similar to the bouquet he gave to another EXO member. Another Netizen said that Chanyeol was not holding his girlfriend's neck but was rather holding a guitar in one of the photos.
Fans are really digging deep to figure out the truth about this situation. However, SM has announced that they have no stand in this case and Baekhyun recently posted a tweet, subtly referring to the fact that he has no acquaintance that is a mutual friend with Chanyeol's supposed ex-girlfriend, alluding to another post made by Chanyeol's self-proclaimed ex girlfriend's friend who also revealed that the allegations against Chanyeol were all true and that Baekhyun didn't even like him.
While it is hard to judge whose side is speaking the truth, fans hope that Chanyeol will eventually address the issue and reveal the truth - apologize if he's in the wrong or sues if he's in the right.
