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The Hong Kong actor's son, Jaycee Chan, was released from a
Chinese jail in February after serving a six-month sentence on
drugs charges.
He had been formally charged last year with "the crime of
sheltering others to take drugs" after testing positive for
marijuana and police saying they had found 100 grams of the drug
at his Beijing home.
"I would never think it would happen to my family. The day I
found out, I am so ashamed, I am so angry. How (did) that
happen?" Chan said. "I was very angry but it made me more
determined to be against drugs."
Chan, named an anti-drug ambassador by Beijing in 2009, sought
to deter youths who had gathered to see him at the Singapore
event from involvement with drugs.
"Don't ever think you won't get addicted, because not only are
you hurting yourself ... your one drug addiction will hurt your
family," the actor said.
"In order to earn money, you'll steal, you'll rob. In the end,
you're hurting your country, you're hurting your family, you're
hurting your son ... it's a domino effect."
The younger Chan, a 32-year-old actor and singer, apologized for
his actions upon his release. The use of ketamine and
methamphetamine has increased in China in recent years and
Beijing continues to heavily prosecute marijuana use.
(Reporting By Reuters Television in Singapore; Writing by
Marie-Louise Gumuchian in London; editing by Ralph Boulton)
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