Open your heart to the talented actress and host who is happy to fight for society. “Boom-Panadda Wongphudee” tells the turning point in her life that led her to work for society until she was able to establish the Good Organization Foundation. Currently, she wants to live a simple married life. She revealed that she recently invested her savings to buy land to build a foundation for the country on the WOODY FM program.
When was the turning point from working for yourself to working for others?
Boom Panadda: The turning point was in 2014. Before that, I was working as a beauty queen who helped with charity work or something. In 2014, there was news about a rape on a train. I looked at my daughter and thought, how could something so serious happen? And who would protect my daughter’s future if one day I was not around? As a mother, what could I do to protect her future? So I started to study the law seriously. My life changed.
So we came to see that the laws regarding women hadn’t changed in 30 years. Before Boom, it wasn’t that no one asked for changes. They went to protest in front of the parliament. They tried to do it. It’s just that from Boom’s perspective, at that time we had the power of the media and being a celebrity, so the power was very strong. It turned out that I might have been the first celebrity to change the law. Then other things followed, help from other women, legal cases, things like that.
It turned out that we started to get into it, and we felt good about helping. We felt good about being a source of strength for them. We felt good that sometimes they had reported the crime for years but had not received any help. It turned out that the light we had, or the voice we had, became a source of strength for them, to seek additional justice for them. It felt good. So we had to do it while I was still famous. So it became a large foundation at the national level.
What is your name?
Boom Panadda: Good Organization Foundation
How many percent of our lives does it take up?
Boom Panadda: Now it’s 70% because when I wake up or while I’m sleeping, it becomes how many cars are driving today? How many hospitals are asking for cooperation? Or how are bitter cases being dealt with? There are so many things.
When you put other people’s stories into your brain, is there any way to let it out? Because you are involved in every story.
Boom Panadda: I’m really into it but I can cut it off quickly because if I don’t cut it off quickly, I’ll definitely get depressed and stressed. It’s like many younger people who have come to help, when they hear a lot of stories, they can’t cut it off. My mother asked to stop. There are a lot of them. But for me, it turned out to be very easy to cut off because I feel that every case is important. I express my condolences but life still has to go on. There are still other cases where we have to be mindful to take care of them and take care of our own families as well. I see birth, aging, illness and death as normal things.
Why did you become such a simple person when in the past you had to be in the news?
Boom Panadda: In the past or even nowadays, sometimes anything posted becomes news. But when it comes to Got (her husband), he said that he is an outsider in the entertainment industry and doesn’t want to be in the limelight. He wants to live a quiet life and raise his children in peace. We understand that. It also depends on the other person, how much they want to be in the limelight. It’s not that there aren’t programs that invite him. There are a lot of them.
How are you, Alex?
Boom Panadda: He’s naughty. He has a lot of energy. I never thought in my life that I would have a child who could run around all day (laughs). It turns out that now I have to have two nannies. My child is with his father more than his mother because his father asked me to be the one to take care of him because he has dreamed for a long time of having a son and wanting to raise him in the style that he plays with.
As for Nong Anda, is she a student now?
Boom Panadda: Yes, I’m currently a first-year medical student.
In the past, Boom has done a lot for other people. Have you ever given something back to yourself?
Boom Panadda: When I really think about it, I can’t think of what I want with my life. I used to sit and look at luxury watches, look at brand names, they’re beautiful, they’re hard to buy, but I feel that it’s better to use the money to help children. Adopted children still have to study, foundations still have to be built, put that money first, think like this, I’ll do mine later. This is one of the reasons why my husband asked me to marry him because he said that my life seems to be like doing a lot for other people, for my own family, for the people around me, for my subordinates, for the foundation, and for the people. But there’s nothing that Boom ever said that he would do for himself. But today, Boom has it.
The team said that today, Boom will announce to Thai brothers and sisters about the future that has been planned and decided to do?
Boom Panadda: Boom just took the money I saved up and bought some land at Rangsit Khlong 8. I will set up a foundation for a good organization, such as a shelter for women, a food pavilion, a meditation garden, and a foundation that runs a car service to help people. I will do that and leave it as a national asset.
