Kung si Gelli de Belen ay hindi maintriga si Janice de Belen, edi ang award-winning broadcast journalist Cheche Lazaro na lang ang magho-hot seat sa kanya!
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00:00You know, me and Janice, I have a lot of things to tell her that she doesn't want to talk about.
00:08Well, okay.
00:10It's different.
00:12It's different who's going to ask you.
00:14So, here.
00:16She's going to ask you.
00:18Open your eyes.
00:20She's an award-winning broadcaster.
00:22Ms. Checha Laduro.
00:26Hi, Janice. Happy birthday.
00:28The floor is yours.
00:30Thank you, Jenny.
00:32It's like she's going to beat you up.
00:34Why?
00:36That's why I'm nervous.
00:38You know, when you've been waiting for two weeks,
00:40I really can't.
00:42I'm good at taking surprises.
00:44Really? But your life has been full of surprises.
00:46Oh, yes.
00:48A lot has happened in your life that's really a surprise.
00:50Every turn of the wheel, right?
00:52I am as surprised.
00:54Happy birthday.
00:56Happy birthday.
00:58Actually,
01:00I don't know.
01:02Maybe,
01:04older.
01:06Maybe more mature by about 20 years.
01:08Like this year.
01:10Yeah.
01:12Because of the experiences I've gone through.
01:14But then, I feel young
01:16because I feel renewed.
01:18In a way.
01:20Okay.
01:22You're 33 years old.
01:24I've never hidden my age.
01:26It was never a problem to me.
01:28At 33, what can I do?
01:30What can you do when you've done so much in 33 years?
01:32Yeah.
01:34Was it a good or bad year?
01:40I can't say
01:42it's completely bad
01:44because I think I've rediscovered
01:46this part of me that I lost
01:48for the longest time.
01:50I can't say it's good because
01:52it's a bad year.
01:54But you said you've lost something
01:56during that time.
01:58How many years did you lose?
02:00What did you lose?
02:02Not many years.
02:04What I lost
02:06I think
02:08I lost me.
02:10You lost you?
02:12What does that mean?
02:16There's so many things about me
02:18that I don't think
02:20everybody knows or understands.
02:28It's hard to describe.
02:30It's hard to describe.
02:32Nobody really knows who I am.
02:34I don't think
02:36anybody can ever say they know me
02:38because no one knows me
02:40but me.
02:42No one knows you?
02:44I lost so many things.
02:46The things that I used to believe in.
02:48My individuality.
02:52My freedom to be able to say
02:54and feel what I want.
02:56Did that stop?
02:58Did that steal you?
03:00It didn't steal me.
03:02I gave it away.
03:10I was the one who took it away.
03:12Why'd you take it away?
03:18Because I thought
03:20it would be the best thing to do.
03:22It's like you're recoiling.
03:24You're entering your shell.
03:32I just wanted to be
03:34the best of that person
03:36was at the moment.
03:38So
03:42that became my thrust
03:44and I was never lonely doing that.
03:46I just wanted to say
03:48that I wasn't lonely doing that.
03:50I put myself aside
03:52for other people.
03:54I wasn't lonely.
03:58The ending was lonely.
04:00But you said
04:02you changed.
04:04It wasn't you.
04:06Was there a time that you were not yourself?
04:08That you were not Janice as you knew yourself?
04:10This past year.
04:12Yes.
04:14This past year.
04:16What did you give up?
04:20My pride.
04:22Was that good?
04:26Ideally, yes.
04:28It should've been.
04:32But no.
04:34It's not good.
04:36Because together with the pride
04:38went my self-esteem.
04:40That's difficult.
04:42Self-esteem, that's so difficult.
04:44That's so difficult.
04:46Self-esteem.
04:48Do you remember when you were a kid?
04:50You were the star of Flor de Luna.
04:52I watched you.
04:54I went to your set.
04:56Of course, I don't remember.
04:58I was teaching back then.
05:00And I wanted to see how to make
05:02a drama. So I watched you.
05:04What I noticed in that drama
05:06is that
05:10you really feel the role.
05:12It's like you went through everything
05:14when you were a kid.
05:18Your tears were low.
05:20At that time.
05:22But you were still a kid.
05:24What were your experiences that brought life
05:26to Flor de Luna?
05:30That's a hard question to answer.
05:32Because
05:34I was 9 when I started
05:36and I was 14 when I left Flor de Luna.
05:40Maybe it's
05:42my passion.
05:44But
05:46I don't know what it's for.
05:48But they say that
05:50good actresses
05:52their emotions
05:54come from the inside.
05:56What they feel.
05:58But when you were at Flor de Luna at 9 years old
06:00when I watched you when you were a preteen
06:02when you were still a teenager
06:04you were so easy to
06:06relate to.
06:08Did you really want to be an actress
06:10when you were a kid?
06:12When I was a kid
06:14I don't know.
06:16I cannot say that I really wanted
06:18to be an actress because I did not
06:20really.
06:22The truth is, it's so funny.
06:24Because I say this over and over
06:26again because it really is true.
06:28What I really wanted to be was a singer.
06:30It was really what I wanted to be.
06:32I would
06:34tape the songs on the radio
06:36and we have a small room
06:38that no one uses.
06:40I'd go there, I'd close the light
06:42and I'd play.
06:44I'd pretend that I'm having a concert.
06:46I'd have spills.
06:48I'd wave.
06:50I'd play the lights.
06:52That's what I really wanted.
06:54But I know
06:56that I was really arty when I was a kid.
06:58When we'd go to my grandma's house
07:00she had this big mirror in her room.
07:02It was really big.
07:04You could sit there
07:06in her dresser.
07:08You could sit there.
07:10So every Sunday or every time
07:12we'd go to her house, I'd rush to eat
07:14lunch.
07:16Then I'd go to her room, I'd close the door
07:18of her room, I'd sit there
07:20and I'd stand in front of the mirror
07:22and I'd act. I'd sing.
07:24I'd do this.
07:26I was really dramatic.
07:28Who encouraged you to enter the show business?
07:30Nobody encouraged me to go into show business.
07:32There was just one time
07:34that my dad went to
07:36the studio of another network
07:38and I was tagging along with him because
07:40my dad's in advertising so he was kind of
07:42talking to the people there.
07:44And I tagged along.
07:46And then I saw that there was an audition going on
07:48and I just didn't know.
07:50I never really thought and I don't think
07:52my dad ever thought that this would happen.
07:54So I said, can I join?
07:56My dad said yes.
07:58They just gave me this
08:00script
08:02that I read with two other people.
08:04Just read it. No emotions.
08:06Just read it.
08:08So we read it.
08:10And that was the beginning.
08:12Now, you have five children.
08:14You have one child, Luigi, who is now
08:16in show business.
08:18Having been a child star and having
08:20gone through what you've gone through,
08:22do you recommend this for children
08:24to go into careers early in their life?
08:26Of course not.
08:28Not really.
08:30I mean, I came from being an artist.
08:32I came from that.
08:34I missed out on a lot of things.
08:36Even if I say that
08:38my mom
08:40and my dad
08:42and I tried so hard to make it seem
08:44normal as it should have been.
08:46It's not because as early as that age
08:48you're exposed to a lot of
08:50things that you should have
08:52been exposed to later in life.
08:54Did you miss out on a childhood?
08:56Did you lose your childhood?
08:58Part of it, yes.
09:00I think I matured early.
09:02Puyat.
09:04At an early age, you're asked to
09:06not eat too much.
09:08Don't be too big on screen.
09:12I didn't grow up.
09:14Maybe it's not because of show business.
09:16Maybe it's the puyat.
09:18Maybe it's the puyat.
09:20I never experienced having a JS prom.
09:22Because of that.
09:24Did your show business
09:26change your views
09:28about love?
09:30About money?
09:32About what you can be
09:34when you grow up?
09:36About different views?
09:38Not really.
09:40Whatever I want to be,
09:42I don't have a definite
09:44want or definite ambition at that time.
09:46When I started
09:48being an artist,
09:50I embraced it tight.
09:52I enjoyed it.
09:54I loved what I did.
09:56I still love what I'm doing.
09:58Why did you give up?
10:00I didn't really
10:02give it up.
10:04Maybe my family
10:06became my priority.
10:08Why did your family become your priority?
10:10Because that's how it should be.
10:12That's how it should be?
10:14That's how it should be.
10:16That's what I wanted.
10:18Maybe I didn't think that
10:20if I didn't grow up like that.
10:22But I grew up that way.
10:24My mom didn't work.
10:26She gave everything to us.
10:28That's what I knew was right.
10:30I have a clear sense of everything
10:32that I wanted.
10:34It's very clear to me
10:36the role of a mother
10:38and a housewife.
10:40If it's possible,
10:42I want a job.
10:44There was a time that I had to accept
10:46jobs because it was a need.
10:48When?
10:50Of course, when I was single.
10:52Of course, there's a need.
10:54But when everything was going on smoothly,
10:56I had the liberty
10:58to not accept jobs.
11:00If there's an occasion,
11:02if it was my son's birthday,
11:04if it would interfere with my daughter's birthday,
11:06my anniversary,
11:08my birthday, somebody else's birthday.
11:10If it had anything to do
11:12with my immediate family,
11:14I wouldn't accept it.
11:16Your commitment to your family is strong.
11:18Yes.
11:20When I wake up in the morning
11:22from taping,
11:24if one of my children is sick,
11:26I'll call them.
11:28Even if they get mad at me or blacklist me,
11:30I'll still hug them.
11:32If I give you a chance to take priorities,
11:34what's the most important thing in your life?
11:36The three most important things in your life.
11:38Now.
11:40In your life?
11:42No, but now, this period.
11:44First would be my children.
11:46Second would be
11:50me.
11:52Me.
11:54You.
11:56Because I think I deserve to be second this time.
11:58Why? Did the me in your list disappear?
12:00It's gone.
12:02It's gone far away.
12:04Really? What's the third?
12:06The third would be my work.
12:08Do you believe
12:10what they say,
12:12everything that happens to us in life
12:14is a coincidence?
12:16Oh yes, very much.
12:18I've always believed in that.
12:20Nothing under the sun is accidental.
12:22Celestine Prophecy.
12:24Do you believe that?
12:26Do you think that everything that happens in your life
12:28is planned?
12:30No accidents?
12:32No.
12:34That has a purpose.
12:38Maybe...
12:40For the last year, all I've been doing
12:42is thinking
12:44what is the purpose.
12:46What's the purpose?
12:48What has the purpose been, Janice?
12:52Maybe to build my character.
12:54Build my strength.
12:56And at the same time,
13:00maybe
13:02God wants me to be strong.
13:06Has he been successful?
13:08Sometimes, I think
13:10what did I do wrong?
13:14Then after a while,
13:16I think
13:18that's why God gave me that.
13:20Because I love God.
13:22I hope He doesn't have too much confidence in me
13:24so that He doesn't give me too much.
13:26But you know Janice,
13:28he's been very successful.
13:30Happy birthday.
13:32At 33, you look 22
13:34and you think like a 60-year-old.
13:36Happy birthday.
13:40Happy birthday.