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Singer and actress Zsa Zsa Padilla has admitted she found it difficult to sing on stage after her long-time partner comedy king Dolphy passed away.
“I was on stage probably six years ago. That was the last time I had the courage to go on stage. It’s hard, it’s difficult [to sing] especially when you’re going through something that is very, very painful in your life,” Zsa Zsa said on Wednesday at Resorts World Manila during a press conference for her upcoming concert entitled “Beginnings.”
Dolphy died on July 10, 2012, due to multiple organ failure. He was 83.
Zsa Zsa said she had overcome the sadness, though sometimes singing her songs, especially “Hiram,” took her back to the past.
“I really don’t sing it even if it is the most requested song. I would do it last [because] I get emotional. I am so much attached to that song in my past about Dolphy, about how our life was so complicated in the beginning, how we stuck together for 23 years,” she said.
Zsa Zsa said Dolphy would always be in her heart. “You can’t help it because it’s a part of you. You can’t say you found a new love, that [the love for Dolphy] is forgotten; it is never forgotten.”
She added: “If this relationship that I have, if it doesn’t work, [I will] just move forward again because that’s how life is. I think life has taught me to be strong and be courageous and just do it for my children.”
Zsa Zsa, who celebrated her 51st birthday on Thursday, is in a relationship with nonshow biz boyfriend architect Conrad T. Onglao. The couple had been together for a year.
Is she getting married this year? Zsa Zsa said no, insisting the marriage “will come in due time.”
“I haven’t really asked my kids [about the marriage] but they have so much love and respect for me that they just want to see me happy,” she said. RC
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