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Dec 13, 2018 · Yee can count on one staunch supporter to be always on his side though – his doting mother, Mary Toh. After the video by Chen was widely reported by the media, Toh has lashed out at Chen on...
May 30, 2018 · Yee's mother, Mary Toh, who occasionally posts about her unconditional love for her son, responded on May 29 with her own post detailing the background of Yee's screen shot: Her note will...
May 6, 2015 · SINGAPORE - Teenage blogger Amos Yee's mother brought him to the Institute of Mental Health to see a psychiatrist on April 3. But after two sessions, the 16-year-old refused to go anymore, it...
- Son's Struggle
- Still Supportive
- Prior Note
In it, Toh compared her son's two-and-a-half-year struggle -- from March 29, 2015 when he was first arrested to Sept. 26, 2017, when he won his asylum bid -- to the National Service that Singaporean males are obligated to take on. She noted that this was a period where Yee spent his time in "police stations, state courts, prisons, mental institutio...
Despite Yee publicly lashing out against his mother on social media previously, it appears Toh is still very supportive of her son's chosen path and purpose. She wrote that she is glad to see his "19th year of life is going to start fresh on a new chapter" and is also glad that he is "always taking things so positively". Yee is currently residing i...
On Oct. 27, Toh had also published an earlier note saying she is proud to have brought her son into the world. In this earlier note, she mentioned that Halloween -- which falls annually on Oct. 31 and coincides with her son's birthday -- had never carried any significance, except it was a day "a new life was brought to the world". She also provided...
Dec 14, 2018 · To dig deeper, we at TISG decided to go right to the source of Amos Yee – his mother, Mary Toh. TISG: Do you want Amos to come back to Singapore? Why / Why not? Mary Toh: Nope. He seems...
Oct 21, 2020 · Yee’s mom, however, appeared to view Amos’ antics as a source of mystery. It is perhaps unsurprising that Mary defended her son after he posted a screenshot of a rude conversation he’d had with his mom.
Yee's mother in 2012 In January 2012, Yee was widely criticised by netizens for uploading a video to YouTube which—according to My Paper —"called the Chinese New Year a rip-off of the Western New Year's Day". Garnering over 150,000 views, Yee later clarified that the video was satirical in nature. The New Paper described Yee as "mocking the origins of the zodiac and joking about how ...
