Fast Talk with Boy Abunda: Nadia Montenegro on her relationship with Boy Asistio (Episode 385)

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Aired (July 19, 2024): Binalikan ni Nadia Montenegro ang huling pag-uusap nila ng kanyang yumaong asawa na si Mayor Boy Asistio at ang isyu tungkol sa kanilang relasyon. #GMANetwork #GMADrama #Kapuso

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00:00What was your reaction the first time you realized that Mayor Boy Asistio liked you?

00:11That time, Tito Boy, honestly, I'm not exaggerating.

00:16But at that time, a lot of people were courting him.

00:21I really didn't know who he really was, but I knew he was Mayor Asistio.

00:26But, you know, I was young. I wasn't focused on, you know, I was focused on Richard Gong.

00:31I was focused on, you know, my barcadas, my age.

00:35But I never was, you know, intentionally, like, who is this Mayor?

00:40You were not interested.

00:42Tito Boy, because at that time, suddenly, there were gifts coming to the house.

00:47There were courting flowers. You meet them.

00:52Okay. This is the third time you've said that there are a lot of courting people.

00:55Who are they?

01:01Not only if you want. I mean, only if you can.

01:04We don't want to ruin your relationships.

01:07Yes. But, of course, there are politicians, actors, regular businessmen.

01:14And when you go home, there are gifts.

01:16Yes.

01:17Like that.

01:19How did it happen?

01:21Persistence.

01:23He was persistent.

01:25Very.

01:26How persistent was?

01:28Jewelry.

01:30Charming, you know.

01:32And at that time, Tito Boy, honestly, I knew he only had one companion, and they were no longer together.

01:39Again, again, say that.

01:41At that time,

01:42When he was courting you, what you knew was

01:45they were no longer together.

01:47So, he was no longer with you.

01:49Not knowing after.

01:51There's more.

01:53Yes.

01:54So, that's how it was.

01:56And when you found out that there's more.

01:59I resisted, Tito Boy.

02:00You resisted.

02:01There was no chance that I'm walking out.

02:05Well, there are some moments.

02:07Moments.

02:08You'll catch him.

02:09But, I never gave up on him.

02:11Did you have a conversation with him?

02:13Yes, Tito Boy.

02:14How was that?

02:15I had a conversation with Boy two weeks before he passed, not knowing he was going to pass.

02:20And every January, I do a prayer fast wherein I stay in my room for a few days,

02:28and I apologize to everyone I've wronged for that year, or to start the new year right.

02:36I do that.

02:37And when I did that to him, I texted him.

02:40I said, I'm sorry for all the mistakes I've done to you.

02:43Come down to my room.

02:44Because at that time, he was sick already.

02:46So, when I went down to his room, that's when we started talking.

02:49We had a two and a half hour talk that we never had for 29 years.

02:56And it was one of the most amazing moments that I will thank God for.

03:01Because of the closure, the forgiveness, the laughter of all the things we did to each other.

03:08The laughter of all the things we did to each other.

03:11The times that I caught him before, he didn't confess, he confessed already.

03:15You know, that.

03:16Not knowing he was going to pass.

03:18And I thank God for that day.

03:20What are the things that you remember?

03:22Everything, Tito Boy.

03:23Everything?

03:24Everything.

03:25How many of the everything?

03:26The kids.

03:27The kids.

03:28Okay.

03:29What did you talk about the kids?

03:30I won't let them go.

03:32Not only my kids, his kids.

03:35All of them.

03:36We're a family, Tito Boy.

03:38We may be an odd family, but we are a family.

03:42The kids of Boy, all 21 of them are intact until this day.

03:4721 outside of your 8 kids?

03:50No, with my 8 kids, yes.

03:54What did you say about the kids?

03:56I won't let them go.

03:59No matter what happens in our lives, we will fight together.

04:03And I'm very happy because the kids until this day,

04:07regardless of how many siblings they have,

04:12we're all different mothers,

04:14they still live with the word of their father.

04:17Nads, did he ask for forgiveness?

04:19Yes, Tito Boy.

04:20How did he say it?

04:22Because I was the first to ask for forgiveness.

04:24Because?

04:25Because it was my, that's what I really do every, you know, January.

04:29And it just came naturally.

04:31Because of the prayer fast?

04:32Yes.

04:33But what did you ask for forgiveness during that time?

04:35Everything.

04:36He knows.

04:37No one doesn't know Boy, Tito Boy.

04:40That's why we've been together for 29 years.

04:43That's what I want people to understand.

04:45Maybe the Filipino attitude, Tito Boy,

04:48that we have, the attitude that we don't want to be alone.

04:51This story of my life, Tito Boy,

04:53I feel alone,

04:54the feeling of a Filipino that I was alone with them

04:56by not telling my story.

04:58Tito Boy, it was stolen from me.

05:00My story, you know, I realized this,

05:04I saw this clip from Selma Hayak,

05:06where she said that,

05:08I own my mistakes.

05:11I own my own mistakes, Tito Boy.

05:13I've always owned my mistakes.

05:15But it is my story to tell.

05:17Nobody has the right to tell my story.

05:20I caught that.

05:22I caught that line.

05:24Yes, you were there, Tito Boy.

05:25You were there when it all happened.

05:28And anyone who says that this person is vindicated

05:33for doing what she did to me 17 years ago,

05:35Tito Boy, is sick.

05:37Is sick.

05:39No one can ever be vindicated for ruining somebody's life

05:42just for a news.

05:44Tito Boy, I had seven children at that time,

05:48and I had a husband who was sick.

05:51Did anyone even consider that, what I went through?

05:55To put my family where I am right now,

05:57where we are right now, we are whole.

06:00And I'm living with my head up high,

06:03with dignity, because Tito Boy,

06:06as soon as I started pleasing God and not man,

06:09I found the right road.

06:11I took that road.

06:13We'll go there later.

06:15What made you fall for him?

06:17His heart, Tito Boy.

06:19They can say that he became a womanizer,

06:22or call him all these nasty names

06:25because he courted a child, or what.

06:28You know, this is what's painful with this world.

06:32They didn't know that person.

06:35And until this day, Tito Boy,

06:37for seven years that he's been dead,

06:39every day I wake up, I still think,

06:42what will Tito Boy say to me?

06:44In situations like this, because he would always be fair.

06:48He would always do everything

06:50so that no one would be hurt, no one would be threatened.

06:54And today when you woke up,

06:56you were about to do this interview,

06:58so what do you think Tito Boy would say?

07:00I'm so proud of you, Tart.

07:03He was always proud of you?

07:05Yeah, he was always proud of me.

07:12I don't think there's ever going to be another man like him.

07:16Was there an instance that he got angry?

07:19Was there something he didn't like?

07:21Tito Boy, for 29 years, he never got angry.

07:24He never got mad at me.

07:27He never insulted me.

07:30Maybe he was the one I hurt, but he never, Tito Boy.

07:35He never cursed me.

07:37He never called me names.

07:39How was he as a father?

07:41Oh, he's the greatest.

07:42I always said in all my interviews,

07:44if me and your son were separated,

07:46no one would be with me and my children

07:48other than this girl and this boy.

07:50Okay, how was that?

07:51He was always present?

07:52He was.

07:53He was very verbal with his kids?

07:56Yeah, if he could be there in all the graduations,

07:59he would, he would.

08:01Was he strict?

08:02Was he a disciplinarian?

08:03No, no.

08:04What about the boys?

08:05For example, how did he feel about the girls?

08:08Yeah, it was a long time before he looked me in the eyes.

08:13There was one instance, my daughter had a boyfriend,

08:16it was years before he looked me in the eyes.

08:19Who is this?

08:21I mean, one of the daughters.

08:22Yeah.

08:23Okay.

08:24Yeah.

08:25Is he angry?

08:26Yeah, of course.

08:27He's still a father.

08:28Yeah.

08:29He's still a father.

08:30There was no tension between the kids and Boy?

08:32Never.

08:33Never.

08:34They were always eager to come home,

08:36to run to his bed in his arms.

08:38They were always, you know, they were always eager

08:40for out-of-town trips or just even a simple trip

08:43to drive through.

08:45They never took it against their father that he has a different family?

08:48No.

08:49They never took it against their father that he has a different family?

08:52Because maybe if there's one thing that I really tried from the very beginning

08:58is to get to know each other.

09:00And you raised your girls well.

09:01Thank you, Uncle Boy.

09:02I did my best.

09:03You did?

09:04I raised them.

09:05Boy is just eavesdropping on this conversation, Nadia.

09:08He's just listening to our conversation.

09:10If you have something to say to Mayor Boy,

09:13what would you say to him right now, at this point in your life?

09:19Thank you.

09:21Thank you.

09:22Because I couldn't see myself, Uncle Boy, with anyone else.

09:27And if...

09:30Thank you for accepting me, even if I made mistakes.

09:34Because...

09:37He answered me.

09:38He forgave me many times.

09:41So...

09:43I'm blessed, Uncle Boy, that he became my partner.

09:46Because...

09:48If he's not a good person,

09:50maybe my children and I are not like that.

09:53That...

09:55We have the heart to serve, we have the heart to love, to give, to share.

09:58It's all from Boy.

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