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Snooky Serna looks back at the start of her career when Mother Lily Monteverde took her under her wing.   She remembers how Mother Lily helped her when she went into deep depression and heartbreaks.  #PEPInterviews #MotherLilyMonteverde #SnookySerna   Video: Melba Llarena Edit: Khym Manalo  Subscribe to our YouTube channel! https://www.youtube.com/@pep_tv  Read the latest in showbiz at http://www.pep.ph  Watch more videos at https://www.pep.ph/videos  Follow us!  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pepalerts/  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PEPalerts  Twitter: https://twitter.com/pepalertsViber: https://bit.ly/PEPonViber Kumu: pep.ph  Visit our DailyMotion channel! https://www.dailymotion.com/PEPalerts

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00:00I'm trying to be okay, but I'm not okay because I have lost my parents all over again.

00:25It's been a while since Father Remy Monteverde passed away.

00:29Then, two days after, or maybe a day after, my mother passed away.

00:36I started with Regal Films when I was 14.

00:39We finished our contract when I was 26, so you can just imagine.

00:46Half of my teenage years were spent with Mother Lily Monteverde and Father, and the whole Monteverde family.

00:53So, I know that they would not mind if I say that the loss of my adopted brothers and sisters,

01:02namely, Meme, Rocelle, Dondon, Winnie, and Goldwyn,

01:09the loss of them is the same as the loss of me.

01:14I'm just trying to be okay, but really, I am not okay.

01:18I'm floating.

01:21It's like I have lost my parents all over again.

01:26I never expected for this to happen.

01:29What are your fondest memories of Mother Lily?

01:33Too many to mention.

01:35One that is striking is the time when I went into a deep depression.

01:42I went crazy all the time because I just had a breakup, a bad breakup with Albert Martinez at the time.

01:51Then, I was in a coma for one year.

01:54And then, Mother, almost every day, no exaggeration, she was outside my room.

02:03She was in our living room area.

02:05Sometimes, Mother would sleep there just for me to snap out of my depression.

02:12For one year, she would bring food.

02:15I will never forget Aunt Inday Badiday.

02:18Then, she would offer me to go to the States, to go to Hong Kong, just to get me out of that bulldrum.

02:28I'm so thankful, up to this moment and forever, that Mother is the God's weapon for me to survive.

02:38At that time, I never thought that I would survive.

02:42Because when you're young and you're in love, your first heartache, your first breakup, you feel like that's the end of your world.

02:49But Mother is also my true second mom who said,

02:53Fight. You can do this. Let's pray.

02:56She has always been like my mom, a second mother to me.

03:00What are the advice that you will never forget that she gave to you, that you applied in your life, that helped you a lot?

03:09Mother's advice, Mother with all her, you know, Mother's craziness to make her happy, crazy.

03:20She has a very serious side and what Mother taught me,

03:25First of all, she used to scold me when I was young, when I was being, I'm sorry to say, but when I was being a bit unprofessional.

03:33That's what Mother taught me.

03:36Love your job, be professional in what you do and it will love you back.

03:42Second, Mother, she has also been instrumental in molding me as a better spirit, as a better Christian.

03:53Because the other day in Regal Films, we had a Regal Community, Charismatic Community, and she founded that.

04:03I don't know if there are a lot of people, but we had a Regal Charismatic Community.

04:09So, that's a lot. She is a typical mother to all of us.

04:14For me, it's Mother, of course, we know who she is, Mariciel Soriano, Dina, Aiko, Janice, Nadia, Gretchen, and the list goes on and on.

04:27She became a lot of children.

04:30What do you wish for the showbiz community now that, of course, an icon is gone?

04:35I'm crying because of the question. I feel that, well, my advice is that we should continue Mother's legacy.

04:47And let's not forget the contribution that Mother Lily made in the industry.

04:54She's a big loss. We can't go back to the glory days of Regal Films.

05:03For me, maybe I'm being biased, but she's just alone.

05:07So, maybe the least that we can do is to try to live up to that flair, that Regal magic that is unexplainable.

05:21The stars are stars. The movies are magnum opuses.

05:33And Mother is one of those who really loves and is concerned about what will happen in the industry, in my opinion.

05:44Contrary to what some people think, in my personal experience, we're not alone.

05:52Our relationship went beyond that. I'm her worker, she's my producer.

05:59Even when we say that my career went down, I lost everything, I got tired, I went through some dark times in my life,

06:09but Mother's perspective on me didn't change.

06:12And maybe that's what our new producers should emulate.

06:18Don't lose your heart. At the end of it all, we're not here in the industry just for the money.

06:28No, we're here above all else to love each other, to help one another up, to lift one another up.

06:36And to do the best we can to make this industry survive.

06:41Mother didn't stop producing.

06:44Rusell is still there, Don is still there, and other people that Mother Lily trusts.

06:52For our industry, we know that it could be a dying industry, but thanks to Regal, it's still afloat.

07:00I hope it continues. Let's not give this up.

07:04Because it's such a waste.

07:06Let's love the Filipino film industry.

Mother Lily Monteverde helped Snooky Serna get through depression | PEP Interviews

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