Once in a while, we are reminded that Planet Showbiz is occupied by plenty of stars other than AlDub. In an interview last Friday on Tonight with Boy Abunda, actress Jessy Mendiola surfaced just a day before reports confirmed her breakup with former flame JM de Guzman.
Among the things Boy asked her about during his one-on-one with the actress, who was an unpopular choice to play the iconic role of Darna, one of them happened to be her take on her mother’s aggressive stance against trolls and rumormongers.
“Ibang klase yung ginawa ng nanay ko. Talagang nakikipag-away pa siya sa bashers. (My mom is on a whole other level. She really gets into fights with bashers),” Jessy gushed. “I just love you so much, Mom, and I wanna thank you for everything.”
Though it happened more than a month ago, Jessy is still trailed by the airplane controversy that ended with JM challenging fellow actor Enrique Gil to a fight, not to mention a string of untrue pregnancy rumors. “I don’t really care. It’s not true, so why should I care? I mean there’s a lot of rumors going around about me. Why should I care if it’s not true?” Touché, Jess!
She also posed a poignant question to Boy about the existentialist crisis perhaps faced by the garden-variety troll: “Sometimes I have to admit I get affected by bashing and all the haters, but do they really get something out of it?”
“I’m real, I know what happened, I know what I’m going through and I’m happy because I know what’s the truth. I have to protect a lot of people not only myself so it’s better not to talk about it,” she continued.
She did, however, discuss details from her breakup with JM at the press conference for ABS-CBN gag show Banana Split, practically citing the same reason why Gigi Hadid and Joe Jonas broke up: “It’s better siguro na we focus on our respective priorities. ‘Yun lang naman. (That’s all.) I just want to focus on myself first. And that’s the same with him,” she says. “Siguro may certain time na dadating na magiging okay ako. (Maybe there will come a time when I’ll be okay.)”
Other than that, catch Jessy’s new horror film Salvage, directed by Sherad Sanchez, for the Cinema One Originals film festival where she plays a “reporter lost in a haunted jungle.”
[Bandera]
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