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MANILA, Philippines — For KC Concepcion, the relationship she had with Piolo Pascual was “very real” that it was her “first announced relationship.”
In an interview over Instagram Live with entertainment writer G3 San Diego on Monday, the singer-actress looked back on her love affair with Pascual and how she regrets that their relationship had to end.
“It was very real for me. That was my first announced relationship,” Concepcion said.
“People know naman it was very real for me, and I was so young and naive. It was announced publicly so that’s why it also had to be announced publicly,” she added.
In 2009, the two worked together for ABS-CBN teleserye “Lovers in Paris.”
And in October 2010, Pascual confirmed that he and Concepcion were together.
According to Concepcion, Pascual courted her – on and off – for a couple of years.
But Concepcion admitted that even before she got to work with “Papa P,” she remembered saying something about the actor to director Joyce Bernal.
“There was a time he (Piolo) visited on set when I was doing my movie with Chard,” Concepcion said, referring to her “For the First Time” co-star Richard Gutierrez. That flick was directed by Bernal.
“Parang siyang (Piolo) may halo. I remember that. Parang siyang may halo, parang siyang may light.”
(It’s as if he has a halo. I remember that. It’s as if he has a light.)
However, some good things never last as some would say that during a November 2011 interview with “The Buzz” Concepcion confirmed that she and Pascual had parted ways.
Did she ever regret doing the interview? “I regret that we had to end,” she replied.
“I think that in any relationship, you really had faith in it, right? And you go into it not thinking that you want to end it, you go thinking that you want it.”
“So I think more than the interview, I mean on a personal level, you just regret that you have to end.”
Asked subsequently what she learned from her relationship with Pascual, Concepcion said: “We all go through things in life, whatever you go through, you will bring into the relationship that you have.”
“You have to make peace with the things that you went through before, before you go into a relationship. Kasi kung hindi, bitbit mo ‘yun. (Because if not, you’ll continue to carry it.),” she also said.