Moira Dela Torre opens up about breakup, healing
After months of silence, healing and redirection, Moira Dela Torre is finally speaking up about her highly-publicized breakup with husband Jason Marvin Hernandez.
Halfway through 2022, buzz started to go around that Dela Torre and Hernandez’s union was on the rocks, citing “cheating” allegations on his part.
Rumors and speculations about the real score between them started to churn until Hernandez himself admitted, through a statement posted on his Instagram account, that he and Dela Torre had parted ways and called it quits after three years of marriage. Part of the statement also said he had been “unfaithful to her during our marriage.”
Since reposting the statement of her now estranged husband, Dela Torre had been silent, while she would still be seen performing, nothing had been shared about the breakup.
“I am better than I expected. I don’t remember being able to breathe this way and being able to enjoy what I have and mourn what I can’t have,” Dela Torre said when asked how she’s doing.
She didn’t get into the details of the separation and the cheating allegations but she said it was a long time coming.
“When the year (2022) started pa lang, I was getting this weird feeling that I was about to enter into a new season and I didn’t know what it was,” she said.
Until the bomb dropped. “It’s been a long time. I think my heart was prepared for it. Just because my mind was walking through it unconsciously, and when it happened, I just knew what to write. I didn’t get to write on my own for a while,” she said.
It took her a while to get back on her feet but she knew it was the process she had to go through.
“I don’t remember being able to feel the way that I do now. I wasn’t aware that I was so numb for a long time. But now I’m in the season where I finally know my worth and I finally get to take care of myself. I am just enjoying life, whether it’s a good day or a bad day. I’ve learned to embrace whatever I wake up to,” she said.
For her to sail again, she had to let go of some cargo. And that includes letting go of some people from her life.
“I felt like I had been released from prison. It felt like I was allowed to be the creative Moira that wrote ‘Malaya,’” she said.
And that’s when she starts channeling back her energy into writing songs.
“Ang dami palang naipon. I just started unloading through songs and that’s really what I got to bounce back,” she said.
A new life and a new career chapter. She is all set to take over the world with her music. But the next question: Is Dela Torre ready to fall in love again?
“I’m open. I’m not in a season anymore where I’m trying to control the narrative. I’m not in the season where I can manipulate it, so when I enter, I am not scared. I’m in the season where I am open to what God gives me,” she said.
But is she looking for love?
“No. I know it will come,” she said.