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FINALLY,
they’re the talk of the town again.
On
national television, former on- and off-screen
sweethearts Jericho Rosales and Heart Evangelista
revealed how they’d broken up. At least, from Heart’s
side.
Jericho,
in an interview on The Buzz with cohost Boy
Abunda, said he was surprised with the news about
Heart’s announcement on television and in print that
they’re not a couple anymore.
Jericho,
teary-eyed, said he still loves Heart, and that he’s
happy that she has reconciled with her parents. He
emphasized that them being apart is just temporary and
he will try to work things out.
It can
be recalled that Heart lived with Jericho in the entire
three years that they were together, though they denied
it in public. Her family, especially her father,
consistently treated her like an outcast.
“When I
called them during Christmas, my father refused to talk
to me,” Heart said in an earlier interview. It can also
be recalled that her career—and Jericho’s as well—went
down the drain since they went public about their
relationship.
Heart is
now in Dubai shooting a new soap for GMA with Richard
Gutierrez, titled Codename: Asero. In a phone
interview with Raymond Gutierrez, cohost of GMA’s
Showbiz Central, Heart revealed that the main reason
of their breakup is a third party. Or make that, third
and fourth parties.
The
names she mentioned were Carmen Soo, a Malaysian
actress-model with whom Jericho recently teamed up in a
soap opera shot and to be shown in Malaysia. Another was
American actress Briana Evigan, who earlier worked with
Jericho in a Hollywood film, titled I Luv U Virus.
Heart
used the present-progressive tense “is having” when she
revealed the affairs of her former boyfriend. She added,
“I can handle anything, even my parents’ refusal to see
me. I fought for our relationship. Everybody knew that.
But what he did was below-the-belt.”
She
pointed out that the breakup happened weeks ago over the
phone and not on television. Jericho at the time was in
Malaysia doing the soap with Soo. Heart said she told
Jericho that she wanted to move on already, which
Jericho
refused to accept. She added that she has proof of
Jericho’s
infidelities.
Jericho
defended himself by saying that he can’t be having an
affair with the two foreign actresses because he loves
Heart “very much and truly. How can I, in my life, at
this stage...and I look like this, miserable. I don’t
think I can do that.”
Reading
between the lines, it’s as if he admitted that, at some
point, or stage, in his life, he actually had affairs
while being publicly involved with someone.
Amid all
this, he countered the widespread belief that they broke
up to drum up publicity for Heart’s reentry into
showbiz—and his rumored repairing with former leading
lady Kristine Hermosa.
He also
admitted that he knew all along that his and Heart’s
popularity suffered because of their living in together.
He actually used the word
laos
(has-been) and apologized to Heart’s parents for that.
He said that he remains positive that if they won’t be a
couple anymore, at least they could become friends.
“Friendship is worth fighting for,” he told Boy Abunda
and the entire nation.
But
Heart just brushed off every explanation that Jericho
offered. She said in Pilipino, “I don’t think I know him
that well. It’s like I’m dealing with a different
person. I hope he tells the truth about his affairs and
won’t make it appear that he’s the kawawa in our
breakup. I have moved on, and I want to start a new
chapter in my life.”
As most
showbiz scribes would say it with conviction: “’Yun
na.” |
