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Those whose lives are documented in the controversial book that spawned the infamous soap "War of Angels" are hitting back.
Their risque antics could soon be given an airing in a courtroom.
The bawdy soap chronicles the steamy lives and loves of an aircrew.
An Army dentist whose real-life story is documented in the contentious Internet book has rallied fellow characters.
They claim they're "victims" of author and soap screenwriter and real-life scorned spouse of a character Royreudee Kenny. She wrote the online book "The Melancholic Life Book - A True Story Through the Computer". The instant Internet hit went on to be made into the raunchy soap "War of Angels".
Dentist Lt-Colonel Angsika Kusalasaya says her group, Victims of The Melancholic Life Book, will defend the dignity of all those named in its chapters. It hopes "to set a new social standard in defamation protection", Angsika says.
"We will reveal the truth behind our stories. As victims we are now seen as bad people," she says.
Angsika and friends can handle the gossip and public odium over their affairs and love triangles, she says, but as a mother she draws the line at being accused of abandoning her daughter, as claimed in the Royreudee prose.
That adult daughter is now a flight attendant. She's called "Norn" throughout "The Melancholic Life". Angsika says she's "mad" with people who now tease her using that name.
Angsika, 56, says her former husband, a Thai Airways pilot, called "Ning" in the book, is constantly taunted by his cockpit colleagues. Angsika is the unnamed pilot's first wife. The author of "The Melancholic Life" is his second wife.
And his new wife and his erstwhile lover, Patchara, called Cherry in Royreudee's rendition, has to put up with passengers and crew talking behind her back.
She says the jokes go something like this: "Is our pilot Ning today? I hope the plane doesn't crash because he's upset over his wives fighting."
The victims' lobby will go public in its denunciation of Royreudee and her writings.
But she says the group will leave open a chance for "conditional" negotiations with "the other side".
"But if there's no goodwill gesture, we'll sue for defamation," she promises.
Countering Royruedee's statement that they had not met previously, Angsika yesterday released a photo showing the writer at a party both women attended many years ago.
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