Pilita Corrales reveals she endured 10 years of abuse
VETERAN singer Pilita Corrales has revealed that she endured 10 years of hardships with an abusive partner.
“Leaving the country without telling my mother, without telling the family. I followed someone to Hong Kong. And they didn’t know,” said Corrales, when asked about the craziest thing she has done for love, during an interview on “Tonight With Boy Abunda” on ABS CBN.
Little did she know that what she has done would be the start of her suffering.
“That was a big mistake that I did during that time because that’s when the suffering started.
“You do crazy things without thinking. That is the bad thing about falling in love and not leaving everything. At least thinking! What if this happens? What am I gonna do there alone? I followed and then what?” she asked.
Corrales recalled those moments
with her abusive partner.
“When you are in an abusive relationship, I was for a long time, people think ‘I think she likes to be hit. I think she enjoys being hit.’ Ang hirap to get out,” she said.
Corrales then found out that her partner has been married to someone with children.
“I saw a letter. And without knowing he has been married all this time with children. And then I caught the letter of the wife, saying ‘I think you should come home now after so long.’
“When I saw that letter, I was going to New York to do a show, a concert. I saw the letter and I gave him. I told him ‘you should go now.’
“We went to the States together. I came back. He went back in Paraguay. He died already,” Corrales said. “Women should be loved.”
Sixteen years ago, Corrales has
found a new love and eventually got married to Carlos Lopez “who cooks very well.”
Corrales then thought that she could live alone following a heartbreaking relationship.
“Ako naman sinasabi ko naman pwede ka naman mag-isa ka na. You get used to living alone. Pwede naman pala. You don’t really need a husband or somebody. But you need someone to talk to. You need someone to wake up in the morning and say ‘Good Morning!’” she added.
At 78, Corrales said that she is aleady fulfilled and has no plans of reiring. She will celebrate her life and career in an upcoming concert enitled “An Evening with Pilita,” at The Theatre at Solaire on Nov. 17.
Corrales revealed that her first salary as a singer in the late 1950s was
₱50 a day. She also likes fruits, especially guyabano.