SINGAPOREAN singer Mavis Hee was arrested after she was said to be harassing a guest of a six-star hotel in Marina Bay last Thursday, reported Shin Min Daily News yesterday. Hee, who was famous in the 1990s for songs like Cheng Li De Yue Guang (Moonlight In The City), was alleged to have trailed a guest in the lobby of the hotel on Thursday night, said Shin Min.

An apparently agitated Hee later charged into the guest’s room and shouted at the latter. At one point, the singer reportedly said in English: “Call me God!”

The hotel alerted the police, who arrested her. The report did not say if the guest was male or female.

Shin Min, quoting an unnamed source, said Hee, 32, was speaking incoherently at the time of her arrest.

She made a name for herself in the 1990s when, with Kit Chan, she achieved a degree of success in foreign markets like China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Working with mentor Chen Jiaming, she released hit records like 1994’s Ming Zhi Dao (Even Though I Know). She was known for her sultry, husky voice and kooky dress sense.

She had a role in the Channel 8 serial Tofu Street in 1996. In 1999, she starred in the movie Away With Words directed by acclaimed cinematographer Chris Doyle.

But she disappeared from the limelight in recent years.

In 2004, there was talk that she was pregnant and taking a break from showbiz, said Shin Min. But this was not confirmed.

This article was first published in The Straits Times on 28 Jun, 2006.