MASAYA ang 2021 ng Jadine fans nina James Reid at Nadine Lustre dahil sa balitang nagkabalikan ang dalawa. Ang balita nga, sa bahay ni James sa Loyola Villas na uli nakatira si Nadine, iniwan na nito ang condo unit na kanyang tinirahan nang maghiwalay sila ni James. Maalalang ibenebenta ni James ang malaki niyang bahay sa nasabing subdivision, mabuti pala at hindi niya itinuloy ibenta dahil may bahay sila ni Nadine.
Sa pagbabalikan nila ni James, at least, nadagdagan ang karamay at supporter ni Nadine sa kaso niya sa Viva Artists Agency na nagdemanda sa kanya ng breach of contract. Anyway, sa interview ni Nadine sa YouTube vlog nina Angie Mead King at Debbie Then, naibahagi nito ang mga naramdanang realizations sa panahon ng pandemic. “So, we were all locke in, right? And then I just came from months of like stress, pressure, and all that. I wasn’t getting as much projects. So I had not much work. I was really struggling. I was thinking to myself na parang sh** wala akong work so I might, you know, eventually be a ‘has been’ or you know, thay kind of thing. During the pandemic, I had a lot of time to think about what it is than I really want and then a lot of things happened. I would have conversations with myself and I would always tell myself to just you know, ‘Take your time. There’s no rush. The world’s not going to end tomorrow.” Kahit naba-bash, naisip ni Nadine na hindi ‘yun dahilan para hanapin ang validation na hinahanap sa ibang tao. “But one of the things that I really learned is to just be me and not look for validation from other people and to just do whatever it is that I want to do. If I don’t have projects, then that’s fine I’ll do something else. It’s not that my life is dependent on that.” Naibahagi ni Nadine sa nasabing interview ang mga natutuwan niya sa panahon ng Covid-19 pandemic. “For me, I believe it gave us time to look inside. Kasi te last five years I’ve been grinding lang like everyday working non-stop, always busy, no pause. So there’s really no time to think what it is that you want and who you really are. And I lost sight of that.” “I was busy and doing a lot of roles and I have people in my ears telling mewhat I should be, what I should wear. Aside from that, there are people online telling me ‘dapat hindi ganyan, dapat ganito.’ You know putting me in a mold they made for me. It affected me so much that I lost myself. I didn’t know who I was, I didn’t know what I want. Parang I was just lost,” patuloy ni Nadine. Nag-aabang na ang fans at non-fans ni Nadine sa kalalabasan ng kanyang kaso laban sa VAA. Manalo kaya siya at matuloy ang pag-alis sa VAA? Hintayin natin ang magiging desisyon ng Korte.
-Nitz Miralles
