Bea Borres. Images: Screengrabs from YouTube/Toni Gonzaga Studio [Trigger Warning: mention of sexual exploitation] “Kadenang Ginto” star Bea Borres was emotional as she looked back at the time when her older brother recorded a video of her while taking a bath in her teens. Despite this, she eventually chose to forgive him.
Borres recalled the heartbreaking incident in a sit-down interview with Toni Gonzaga on Sunday, August 25, sharing that her older brother took on the role of a parental figure due to them not having a positive relationship with their now-dead parents. “Laging may away, laging may kulang, lagi silang wala (There were always fights. I always felt that something was missing.
They were not there for me),” she began while sharing that her mother was diagnosed with “bipolar depression” sometime in 2018 or 2019. While touching on her relationship with her older brother, Borres shared that he recorded a video of her while taking a bath when she was “13 or 14” years old. “Ngayon talaga, sobrang love ko si Kuya.
.. pero growing up, hindi naging okay ang relationship namin kasi paano ba sasabihin? [Sexual abuse] po ba ‘yun? So, vinideohan niya ako while taking a bath, naked.
I think I was 13 or 14,” she said. Borres said she didn’t know she was being recorded then, and the video was even sent to his friends. “He took the video and sent it to his friends for, I don’t know, for money.
Hindi ko alam, eh.” “Nakita ko na habang kinakalikot ko.