Though it has been more than two decades since she migrated to the US, rumors about former teen star Antoinette Taus leaving the country to hide her kids still circulate.
For the nth time, the 41-year-old star reiterated the rumors are wrong.
“Andami talagang di makaintindi bakit ako umalis,” said she on the recent vlog of Camille Prats.
“Kaya nung time na yon - kahit ako ng mag bring up - andami nilang iba't-ibang mga theories and chismis... na hanggang ngayon... na may mga taong nag-iisip na nagkaroon ako ng kids before.”
She pointed out that if she did, she would proudly "share it with the world.”
“Hindi lang daw isa, kasi every time na babalik ako sa States, sinasabi nila magkakaroon na naman daw ako (ng anak). Typical nung '90s yun yung mga theories, every time na mag-iibang bansa ka. Yan ang mga dating usong-usong mga chismis. And I was like, ‘Grabe, pumunta lang naman ako ng States kasi may pangarap din ako.’”
So what really happened?
Well, she said that right after they moved there, they found out about her mom's cancer.
“So it kind of became something na, buti na lang din we did, kasi we were able to be with her throughout her whole treatment. Hindi yung parang we had to move during that difficult time. Nandun na kami," she maintained.
“We got to spend the last eight months talaga with her, and that’s really when I kind of stopped doing the work that I was doing after that."
Antoinette admitted at that time, she didn't realize it, but she went into depression.
“I was 23 years old, akala ko I’m so strong kasi I’m moving through, e. Hindi ko na-realize what I was doing was covering up my pain with happy moments. Yung always trying to find ways to be with friends, with people, always trying to find ways to be in a happy setting,” she said.
She declared: “The whole moving to the States thing was part of a big dream. And at the same time, the part of the transition of what’s happening to my life din today in a very big way.”