MANILA, Philippines – Sandro Muhlach disclosed on Tuesday, August 27, that he was allegedly forced to use illegal drugs by GMA independent contractors, Jojo Nones and Richard Cruz, before being sexually assaulted. The 23-year-old Sparkle artist revealed this at the fifth hearing of the Senate Committee on Information and Mass Media on the complaints of abuse and harassment on Tuesday, wherein he appeared virtually. Cruz, meanwhile, was not present in the hearing as his lawyer relayed that he is confined at St.
Luke’s Medical Center in Taguig City due to gastrointestinal bleeding. Muhlach continued to recount from the previous hearing the incident on how he ended up at the hotel room of Nones and Cruz after the GMA Gala event on July 20. He said that after being introduced by Nones to a drunk Cruz, Nones made him drink wine, gave him a P500 bill, and took out an unidentified “white substance.
” “ May nilagay na white substance sa table ng hotel, pinagbabasag ng hotel room key card. Tapos ayun po tinuruan niya ako gamitin ‘yung white substance. Nauna po silang suminghot ni Dode Cruz.
Tapos ako po ‘yung pinasunod nila,” he said. (Nones put a white substance at the hotel table, then broke it using a room key card. They then taught me how to use the white substance.
Nones and Cruz sniffed it first then they made me follow them.) “ Then after ilang minutes po, hinila ako ni Sir Jojo sa kama. Si Dode Cruz, tinanggal po ‘yung polo ko tapos bigla niyang sinuck ‘yu.