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Anita Mui: Background
Mui had one elder sister and two brothers. Her father died when she was young and when she was eight, her mother moved in with another man, hoping he would look after her children. However, Mui and her family later discovered he was already married. Mui told a local magazine that her mother became very temperamental from that point and always took it out on them. Mui claimed to have been desperate to get away from her family.
From the early 1980s to 2003, she was excellent friends with
Leslie Cheung, another Hong Kong pop star, who committed suicide in April 2003. She was very devastated by his death.
Anita Mui announced in early September 2003 that she had cervical cancer and was undergoing treatment. She lost her battle to cervical cancer and died of respiratory complications at Hong Kong's Sanitorium Hospital on December 30, 2003 at 02:50 (local time). She was 40 and single. Her sister, Ann Mui, also a Hong Kong singer, died of cancer in 2000.
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