She passes second breathalyser test at HQ
Mon, Mar 15, 2010
The New Paper
ACTRESS Andrea De Cruz allegedly failed an initial breathalyser test when she was stopped at a police road block at Clemenceau Avenue in the early hours of Thursday.
But she was subsequently cleared in a second, more conclusive test at the Traffic Police headquarters.
Reliable sources told The New Paper yesterday that after Andrea allegedly failed the first test, she was taken to the Traffic Police headquarters at Ubi at about 4am.
She was asked to take the breath evidential analyser test, which checks how many micrograms of alcohol is present per 100 millilitres of breath.
The legal limit is 35 micrograms per 100 millilitres.
The 34-year-old actress-host, who needed a liver transplant in 2002, passed this second test and was released an hour later.
The New Paper understands that the first and second test were an hour apart.
Andrea had liver failure in 2002 after taking the controversial Slim 10 slimming pills.
She survived when her then-fiance and now husband, actor Pierre Png, 36, donated part of his liver to her. It was the first living, non-related liver transplant in Singapore.
The couple met in 1999 and got together a year later. They tied the knot in October 2003.
She passed the significant five-year mark in 2007. The survival rate for the first five years after the transplant is 50 per cent.
She was given the all-clear by her doctors but she told The New Paper in an interview in January that she still had to take anti-rejection medication every day.
Dr K C Tan, Andrea's surgeon for the liver transplant, told The New Paper yesterday that in Andrea's case, it is all right to drink a limited quantity of alcohol.
He said: "Andrea was transplanted a long time ago. The cause of her transplantation was not for alcoholic liver cirrhosis.
"If she asks me if she can have a drink, the answer would be yes. Healthwise, it would not be a problem if she had a glass of wine or a half pint of beer at a party.
"But she should not drink more than that in one sitting."
But Dr Tan, director of The Asian Centre for Liver Diseases & Transplantation, admitted that he was concerned after hearing from reporters about Andrea's breathalyser test.
He called her and she told him she had only one glass of wine that night.
When The New Paper called Andrea on Thursday night and asked about her breathalyser test, all she would say was: "I passed."
When contacted yesterday, Andrea's manager said that from what she understood, the actress had passed her breathalyser test on her first attempt. She added that there was no second test.
Andrea stayed out of the limelight for five years after the transplant to focus on recuperating.
Before her operation, she acted in movies such as Tiger's Whip and Stories About Love and hosted major events like the President's Star Charity 2001 and Supermodel of the World.
She recently starred in the Channel 5 drama Sayang Sayang in 2008 and can currently be seen in the documentary series Unexpected Access 2.
Mon, Mar 15, 2010
The New Paper
ACTRESS Andrea De Cruz allegedly failed an initial breathalyser test when she was stopped at a police road block at Clemenceau Avenue in the early hours of Thursday.
But she was subsequently cleared in a second, more conclusive test at the Traffic Police headquarters.
Reliable sources told The New Paper yesterday that after Andrea allegedly failed the first test, she was taken to the Traffic Police headquarters at Ubi at about 4am.
She was asked to take the breath evidential analyser test, which checks how many micrograms of alcohol is present per 100 millilitres of breath.
The legal limit is 35 micrograms per 100 millilitres.
The 34-year-old actress-host, who needed a liver transplant in 2002, passed this second test and was released an hour later.
The New Paper understands that the first and second test were an hour apart.
Andrea had liver failure in 2002 after taking the controversial Slim 10 slimming pills.
She survived when her then-fiance and now husband, actor Pierre Png, 36, donated part of his liver to her. It was the first living, non-related liver transplant in Singapore.
The couple met in 1999 and got together a year later. They tied the knot in October 2003.
She passed the significant five-year mark in 2007. The survival rate for the first five years after the transplant is 50 per cent.
She was given the all-clear by her doctors but she told The New Paper in an interview in January that she still had to take anti-rejection medication every day.
Dr K C Tan, Andrea's surgeon for the liver transplant, told The New Paper yesterday that in Andrea's case, it is all right to drink a limited quantity of alcohol.
He said: "Andrea was transplanted a long time ago. The cause of her transplantation was not for alcoholic liver cirrhosis.
"If she asks me if she can have a drink, the answer would be yes. Healthwise, it would not be a problem if she had a glass of wine or a half pint of beer at a party.
"But she should not drink more than that in one sitting."
But Dr Tan, director of The Asian Centre for Liver Diseases & Transplantation, admitted that he was concerned after hearing from reporters about Andrea's breathalyser test.
He called her and she told him she had only one glass of wine that night.
When The New Paper called Andrea on Thursday night and asked about her breathalyser test, all she would say was: "I passed."
When contacted yesterday, Andrea's manager said that from what she understood, the actress had passed her breathalyser test on her first attempt. She added that there was no second test.
Andrea stayed out of the limelight for five years after the transplant to focus on recuperating.
Before her operation, she acted in movies such as Tiger's Whip and Stories About Love and hosted major events like the President's Star Charity 2001 and Supermodel of the World.
She recently starred in the Channel 5 drama Sayang Sayang in 2008 and can currently be seen in the documentary series Unexpected Access 2.
