Aired (April 22, 2024): Ano nga ba ang masasabi ni Gary Valenciano sa mga taong sangkot sa mga kontrobersiya sa showbiz industry, bilang isang tao na sementado na ang pangalan sa kanyang larangan?
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00:05 One last time.
00:06 Paulo is directing you here.
00:08 He is.
00:09 Do you always agree with each other?
00:11 No.
00:12 Who has the final say?
00:13 I do.
00:14 And Paulo's the one that tells me that.
00:15 He goes, "Dad, I'm the director, but it's your show.
00:18 People are coming to see you.
00:19 So you have to tell me, are you okay with this or not?"
00:22 And sometimes, Pao, but we never argue.
00:24 We never like, "No, but you can."
00:26 It's always sometimes we just laugh.
00:29 "I want to do this."
00:30 "No, but Dad, you can."
00:31 "Yeah, but I want."
00:32 Then we just laugh at it, and then we compromise,
00:35 and then we come up with something.
00:36 April of 1984, you did your first concert.
00:38 April of 2024, that's a good 40 years.
00:42 Correct. Yes.
00:43 One word.
00:44 Describe that journey.
00:46 Wow.
00:48 To say blessed, I think it's just scratching the surface.
00:51 But that's a lovely word.
00:52 It's deep.
00:53 It's really deep.
00:55 Miraculous is another word.
00:57 Those are the words I can think of now.
01:00 Beautiful.
01:01 Gary, people may think that it had been a smooth journey.
01:05 The 40 years were tough.
01:07 You had rough patches.
01:09 And I always say that a lot of young people--
01:11 I don't know if this is a correct reading--
01:13 are afraid of controversy.
01:15 So I mean, as communicators,
01:16 controversy is necessary to public figures.
01:19 It defines your character sometimes.
01:21 It gives you an excuse to be more visible.
01:23 It gives you an excuse, actually, to define who you are,
01:29 how you're able to move past them.
01:31 What was the biggest controversy you went through?
01:34 In the beginning of my career,
01:36 when my girlfriend at that time, Angeli, got pregnant.
01:41 Oh!
01:42 It was just the beginning.
01:44 And the concert on April 13, 1984,
01:47 that was the defining moment.
01:49 If there's a crowd, then I stay in Manila.
01:52 If there's no crowd, I leave.
01:54 I go to the States or to Australia for Angeli to have Paolo,
01:58 our first son.
02:00 It was sold out.
02:01 It was sold out.
02:02 It was sold out.
02:03 And I did not expect that.
02:05 I expected, maybe there will be people watching,
02:07 but I didn't think we would have a sold-out concert.
02:11 That's blessed. That's miraculous.
02:13 That's miraculous.
02:14 Because at that time, you hear me speak a lot about God.
02:17 At that time, nothing.
02:18 I had known nothing with God at that time.
02:20 It was more of, I'm going to prove something to people.
02:23 But he had other plans.
02:25 Your advice.
02:26 There are a lot of public figures, a lot of celebrities,
02:28 a lot of movie stars and singers
02:30 who are facing controversies.
02:33 What is your piece of advice, Gary?
02:36 Engage, walk away, run away, deny, ignore.
02:40 What?
02:41 It's best to engage.
02:42 Because I will never forget the press conference
02:46 two weeks before the big concert.
02:48 All the media people, including the late Ricky Law,
02:51 he was the one who asked, "Is it true?"
02:53 So I said, "Yeah, it's true. I have a concert on April 13."
02:56 "No, no, no, Gary. We've been hearing these things.
02:59 Is it true?"
03:00 And I said, "Yeah, it's true."
03:02 You face it, especially now, you know, young people,
03:05 especially now, where authenticity is what becomes viral
03:10 and people can read it because of, you know,
03:13 even if the stage is this big,
03:15 that's actually the biggest stage now.
03:17 So you're being authentic on a 5-inch screen
03:22 is your biggest stage.
03:23 So face it.
03:24 And of course, eventually people realized
03:26 that you had a bigger talent than any controversy.
03:28 And that season is like winter, spring, summer, and fall.
03:32 It's here, but it's going to go also.
03:34 It's not going to last forever.
03:35 But one woman stayed with you.
03:37 And I'd like to pay tribute to Anjelie, who's here today.
03:39 Yeah.
03:40 You're right. One woman stayed with you.
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