WITH her continuing health battles amid her autoimmune diseases, Kris Aquino has become inured to false reports about her death. And while she understands that some people need to make money at her expense, she said this is a “cheap way” to do so.
In a Facebook post on Sunday, Oct. 12, Aquino called out those who kept on making guesses about her death, with a warning that she will haunt them when the time comes. She said this as she reshared a clip of herself looking “relatively healthy” in early 2019.
“Sa lahat ng mga manghuhula nagsabing malapit na kong mamatay or ‘yung mga nagbalita na patay na ‘ko, alam ko you need to make money, but this is a cheap way to do it,” she said.
Aquino also looked back at how life was for her in early 2019, saying that while she could make jokes “about an enormous earthquake,” she is still aware of the pain of the loss of a loved one, referring to her parents, Sen. Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino, who was killed on August 21, 1983, and former President Corazon “Cory” Aquino, who died on August 1, 2009.
“The year of this was early 2019, if I could only bring back time… she was laughing and relatively healthy Kris. She could make a joke about an enormous earthquake in the Philippines,” she said. “I have not known loss because of a natural catastrophe, BUT I have known loss of a loved one because of a gunshot wound delivered at close range by a man in uniform.”
“I got close to the cruelty of death because of stage 4 cancer, where you see the person you have instinctively loved since childhood suffer from ‘the unbeatable foe’ which she fought because her children, aged 38 to almost she knew weren’t ready to lose her,” she continued.
The host-actress also recalled her other experiences with loss, particularly the death of her older brother, former President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino, who also died of sickness on June 24, 2021.
Aquino then clarified that she “never held a government position” and the money she used to pay for her luxury bag in the reposted clip was “100% tax-paid.”
“The money that paid for that bag came from the upload of the LINDOHL and the subsequent trip to Japan. And it’s 100% tax paid. Lay off me because mumultuhin kita although medyo malayo ka na sa listahan ng mga may atraso sa’kin and yet I turned the other cheek,” she continued.
This is not the first time Aquino has been a subject of death hoaxes. Last September, her close friend Dindo Balares had to issue a clarification that she is “still alive” after a fresh spate of false reports of her supposed death came out on social media. (Hannah Mallorca © Philippine Daily Inquirer)
