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SA guesting ni Dina Bonnevie sa Fast Talk With Boy Abunda last Friday, May 10, napag-usapan ang pakikipaghiwalay niya noon kay Vic Sotto.
Ayon kay Dina, mga bata pa ang anak nila ni Vic na sina Danica at Oyo nang maghiwalay sila.
Sabi ni Dina, “We never fight in front of the kids and I never badmouthed their dad. Never!
“Never ko siyang siniraan sa mga anak niya and I would always say, ‘You only have one dad… and you have to respect him. Whatever it is.’
“Minsan sasabihin nila, ‘There’s another boy in the house. Who’s that?’ ‘You ask your dad about it but, you know, you have to respect him, because you’d only have one dad and no other.’
“Doon naman nako-confuse si Oyo, ‘How come there’s another boy. Who’s that? And the boy, why is he riding on Papa’s back?’ Tapos sabi niya, ‘Who’s the boy?’ Si Vico,’” ang sagot ni Dina na ang tinutukoy ay si Pasig City Mayor Vico Sotto na anak ni Vic kay Coney Reyes.
“And for me, it’s also hard to explain, kasi I was a kid. Hello, how old was I noong naghiwalay kami? I was only 23.”
Sundot na tanong ni Kuya Boy kay Dina, “Did you have a conversation with Vic about Coney Reyes?”
“Yeah, but it wasn’t even a spirited fight or what, quiet lang. Nag-usap kami. Parang, ‘Bakit?’ sabi ni Vic. ‘Because I was inexperienced’
“Tapos sabi ko, ‘What can you do, virgin ako, eh? I mean, what you want me to read all the books? I mean, you wanna play games? Show me how.’
“I was a kid. I didn’t know much. Parang ‘yun ang sinabi niya sa akin na sagot, ‘You’re so inexperienced.”
Dumating pa nga raw siya sa point na ikinompara niya ang sarili kay Coney, “For a while, parang, alam mo naman, kolehiyala. My God, my feet is only a size 6, size 5. What about the other one?’ Mga ganoon.
“Maldita siyempre ako noon. Kung ano-ano ang iniisip ko. ‘Bakeet? She’s 10 years older! I can’t believe it na itong ganda kong ito and siya (Vic), ang haba ng baba niya, bakit ganoon?’”
“And then eventually, you mellowed down and say, ‘How dumb of me. It’s not in the physical world, girl. It has nothing to do with physical. It’s probably the meeting of the minds.’
“Kasi that time, Vic also wanted to start producing and, of course, I could not contribute anything to that because I was young. Malay ko about producing?
“I wasn’t even in the corporate world yet. Maybe at the time, there was a meeting of the minds because they were both learning the ropes of production. And, I think, she (Coney) was already producing then,” sey pa ni Ms. D.
Ang tinutukoy ng veteran actress ay ang TV and film company ni Vic na M-ZET Productions at ang CAN Television and Productions ni Coney.
Pagpapatuloy ni Dina na nagkaanak sa edad na 20 (Danica), “Iba talaga, siguro parang nasa AM sila, nasa FM ako. And I don’t really know. Pero ang alam kong pinakaano niya (Vic) was, ‘Parang masyado kang inexperienced.’”
Matagal daw bago niya napatawad sina Vic at Coney, “It took a lot of time until the point na Danica was telling na, ‘Alam mo, Mommy, you’re so bitter. I wish you’d really let go because you’re so bitter.’
“Parang, every waking moment, if there’s a little opportunity, like when I felt sad, I’m alone and I was having a hard time with the kids, like when we’re transferring house and all these things, I would rant.
“Kasi, ‘di ba, parang ang bata-bata ko, I should have a man with me. Parang I’m so pretty and then why? Parang I’m up there. Parang, ‘Whaaaat, are you serious?’
“I wasn’t child anymore, but 23 is young. You don’t understand a lot of things. Noong sinabi ni Danica ‘yon, and then, of course, I studied Taoism, Hinduism, lahat na lang ng religion.
“And then I said, ‘Why are you doing this to me God? I’m a good daughter. I’m a good mother. I am a good wife. I am a good daughter-in-law. Why? Why do You do this to me?
“’I didn’t steal from anyone. I didn’t do any evil thing to anyone. But why do you repay me with this? I asked for bread and then You gave me a snake?’” aniya pa at umaming mas na-hurt pa siya dahil mag-best friend sila ni Coney noon.
“But I guess through times, sabi ko, walang pupuntahan ito unless I really let go and just accept that it’s like this.
“And so, eventually, naging Christian ako after studying all the many religions. And then I bumped into her. She asked me, ‘Do you want to go to our church?’ Parang nagulat ako, ‘Go to your church? Talaga lang?’
“But then sabi ni Danica, ‘Hindi ka naman pumupunta sa church para sa tao, eh. You’re going there for God.’
“Then I realized, nakita ko na… I mean, she (Coney) changed in leaps and bounds. Bringing people to God, bringing people to Jesus, telling the people about salvation.
“So I asked myself, ‘Is this the person I’d like to hate? I can’t hate this person. I can’t!’ So I let it go and I gave her a bunch of white roses and then I said, ‘I forgive you.’
“Actually, there was one time na she tried to talk to me and ano pa ako noon, kasi it was in public. But then, I forgave her, I forgave Vic. I also sent him flowers and I said, ‘I forgive you but most of all, I forgive me,’” pahayag pa ni Dina kay kuya Boy.
