Hong Kong singer Sally Yeh has a beautiful — some might even call it spiritual — bond with her granddaughter.
In a recent interview, the 63-year-old was enjoying a meal when she suddenly waved to her granddaughter, Lam Ming, who was seated behind the camera.
When the one-year-old called out “Mama” — meaning “grandma” in Cantonese — Sally blew her flying kisses and gushed, “I dote on her so much.”
Her obvious affection immediately prompted the host to ask why, if she loves children so much, she doesn’t have any of her own.
Sally has been married to Hong Kong singer George Lam since 1996, but the couple have no children together.
Lam Ming is the daughter of Alex Lam, George’s son from his previous marriage to music executive Ng Ching Yuen. Sally also has a stepdaughter, April, and she has treated both stepchildren as her own over the years.
“I don’t like children, but I feel like [Lam Ming] is my mum coming back to find me,” she said.
When Sally’s mother passed away in 2021, she found herself wondering: “Will she return to find me?”
So it came as a shock when Alex and his wife, Candace, announced their pregnancy not long after.
“That was really fast. I even said I felt she would arrive in March, because my mum was born in March. The due date was March 15 — my mum’s birthday. In the end, she came early, on March 11, which was my dad’s birthday,” Sally revealed.
“And she likes me exceptionally much,” added Sally.
The singer shared a mind-blowing experience with her granddaughter when the little one was just over a month old.
“In my room, my mum and dad’s photos are pasted all over the wall. The moment she saw them, she pointed and said: ‘Ma’ [which means ‘mum’]. She didn’t even know how to speak at that time,” Sally recalled.
Clearly taken aback, Sally gushed, “You wouldn’t believe it.”
Remarkably, while Sally was recounting the story, Lam Ming could be heard blabbering “Mother” over and over.
To this day, the baby still asks to visit Sally’s room just to look at the photos of her great-grandparents, always pointing at them whenever she’s inside.
“She’s the combination of my mum and dad’s spirits,” Sally beamed.