10.48 PM Thursday, 28 March 2024
  • City Fajr Shuruq Duhr Asr Magrib Isha
  • Dubai 04:57 06:11 12:27 15:53 18:37 19:51
28 March 2024

Brod against mom, mom against daughters

Picture courtesy: filipinasinshowbiz.com

Published
By Correspondent

After the mother, now it’s the brother who has joined the fray.
 
Joaquino Barretto, brother to actresses Gretchen, Marjorie and Claudine, has blasted their mother Inday in a signed statement sent to media outlets on Thursday, saying that Gretchen had given up so much to support the family.
 
“You have lifted Claudine on a pedestal as the TV serial queen and labelled Gretchen nothing but an ST queen,” he said, addressing Inday. But who took over the role of her parents, worked at the age of 12 and gave up her education to put her siblings to school?”
 
‘ST’ refers to ‘sex trip’, as Gretchen was once known as the ‘sex-trip queen’ for her various daring roles in a number of sexy films. During her younger days Gretchen, with her flawless skin, was one of the most beautiful faces in Philippine showbiz.
 
“Who put food on the table, paid for the rent, electricity and hospital bills when dad suffered from his heart condition at least two times?” Joaquin went on. “Did you ever once stop her from doing all that because you loved her and wanted to protect her just like what you are now doing for Claudine?”
 
He said that Inday should help Claudine as she has become self-destructive, instead of hitting Gretchen.
 
On Wednesday, Inday confirmed rumours that actor Raymart Santiago, Claudine’s husband, has left the conjugal home. Inday blamed Gretchen as having fed the family’s secret to the media.
 
Joaquin has appealed to Inday to stop washing their dirty linen in public to keep the family from falling apart.
 
The feud between Gretchen and Marjorie on one side and Claudine on another reportedly stemmed from anonymous posts on social media attacking Julia, Marjorie’s 17-year-old daughter, who is joining ABS-CBN (also the home network of Gretchen) as an actress.
 
Gretchen had claimed that the source of those attacks against Julia must have been Claudine, who has been with GMA-7 after her transfer from ABS-CBN a few years ago. (Claudine is no longer with ABS-CBN, contrary to what was reported on Wednesday.) Gretchen then issued unpalatable statements against Claudine, in defence of Julia and Marjorie.
 
On Wednesday Inday ran to defend Claudine against Gretchen and Marjorie, and, today, it’s Joaquin who issued a statement in defence of Gretchen against Inday and Claudine.

Earlier story:

Caludine’s family feud: Now mom joins fray

Inday Barretto, mother of actresses Gretchen, Marjorie and Claudine, blasted her first two daughters to side with Claudine in the ongoing feud between sisters, as she revealed her eldest daughter’s evil ways.

“I am going to take all the bullets you shoot,” Barretto said, addressing Gretchen, as quoted by showbiz scribe Maridol Rañoa-Bismark.

The Barretto matriarch, meanwhile, has confirmed rumours, the source of which she attributed to Gretchen, that Claudine’s husband Raymart Santiago, an actor, has left the conjugal home—which could mean that the couple have separated.

“Do you also want to include God in your bashing and drip your perfumed saliva for the misfortune of your sister?” Barretto said, as quoted by Rañoa-Bismark from a statement she sent to ‘Philippine Star’ entertainment editor Ricky Lo.

Gretchen is the common-law wife of Antonio Cojuangco Jr, popularly known as Tony Boy, a scion of one of the country’s richest and most powerful families, and a prominent figure in the Philippine media and communication industry.

In an apparent show of support for 33-year-old Claudine over Gretchen, 43, the mother added: “I am letting go of a child now who never wanted me, in order to save one who has always been there for all, and with all of her love—Claudine!”

In her statement dated April 22, Barretto has allegedly refuted the “lies” that Gretchen told the media, saying that the latter has a history of telling lies to achieve her ends.

“Who did Claudine say it to … to you?” Barretto asked a question directed at Gretchen, who claimed a few days ago that Claudine allegedly intended to block their 17-year-old niece Julia, daughter of Marjorie, from joining Star Magic, ABS-CBN’s training and management arm for in-house actors.

The mother went on: “Or did you make this up to put Claudine in trouble with Star Magic and make Julia’s big following angry with Claudine? You did that before.”

Barretto also took notice of Gretchen’s statement mocking Claudine for allegedly saying that she was the true princess of drama series at their home TV network ABS-CBN.

“Did she tell you that or did you make it up again to block her entry to an ABS-CBN project?” the mother said.

Another salient point in Barretto’s letter to Lo is her brushing aside Gretchen’s statement to the media that Claudine was hatching a plan to ruin Julia’s career in showbiz.

“Next to Marjorie, no one can love those (Marjorie’s children) more than Claudine!!!” she stressed. She added that Gretchen knows that Claudine has no influence in the industry, so the former should stop issuing such statements.

Marjorie, 38, has five children by the 51-year-old Dennis Padilla, son of the late comedian Dencio Padilla.

Mrs Barretto also recalled an instance during one of their domestic squabbles when Gretchen broke expensive plates and vases, and then threatened to kill herself by swallowing some pills.

She said she was so unnerved that she ran to a car parked outside their home while soaking wet (as there was a typhoon), just to escape Gretchen’s wrath. She recalled, “She drove me out of the house!”