Biography
Nansook Hong was chosen by Sun Myung Moon to be the wife of his eldest son, Hyo Jin Moon. According to Hong, Hyo Jin abused drugs and was unfaithful to her. Bringing her children with her, Hong left the Unification Church and Hyo Jin. They divorced in 1995. She recounts her experiences in In the Shadow of the Moons. Author and investigative reporter Peter Maass, writing in the New Yorker Magazine in 1998, said that Hong's divorce was the Unification Church's "most damaging scandal", and predicted that her then unpublished book would be a "tell-all memoir". In October 1998, Hong participated in an online interview hosted by TIME Magazine, in which she stated: "Rev. Moon has been proclaiming that he has established his ideal family, and fulfilled his mission, and when I pinpointed that his family is just as dysfunctional as any other family - or more than most - then I think his theology falls apart."
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