After more than six months of disappearance from the public eye, 1975 Mutya ng Pilipinas 2ndrunner-up and Miss Photogenic Azenith Briones has finally come out from her refuge and talks about her isolation from her family that basically conspired to put her in a rehabilitation center against her will.
This was corroborated by actress Isabel Rivas, one of Azenith’s best friends, who told the public last November that the beauty queen-actress was abducted by four men from her house in Paranaque City in conduit with her children. “Drug addict daw si Azenith kaya inilagay nila sa rehab center. Hindi totoo ‘yan. Hindi rin totoo na baliw siZenith. Ang mga anak lang niya ang nagsasabi noon dahil gusto nila na mapunta na sa kanila ang mga mana nila. Mahal na mahal ni Azenith ang kanyang mga anak kaya gano’n siya kaistrikto sa kanila (Azenith isn’t a drug addict that they committed her to a rehab center. It isn’t also true that she is crazy. Her children said that because they already wanted to claim their inheritances. Azenith loves her children so much that is why she’s strict with them),” gushed Isabel in social media the moment Briones was incommunicado.
Azenith, in an exclusive interview, said that she didn’t want to be placed in Bridges of Hope (BoH), a facility in Paranaque City, at first because she wasn’t an addict. But she signed the waiver because it was also the time she could have an audience with her four children to thresh out problems.
In the group dynamics sessions, Briones confronted her kids. “Noon kasi, hindi na nila ako inirerespto. Kaya mabuti at nagkaharap-harap kami sa BoH. Doon, nagkaliwanagan kami sa mga akusasyon nila sa akin. Ang sabi ko sa kanila, hindi puwedeng ibigay ko agad sa kanila ang mga mana nila dahil buhay pa ako. E, kung mawala sa kanila ‘yon, e, di, sa akin din sila aasa(Before this happened, they wouldn’t respect me anymore. It’s good that we were able to sit down and talk at BoH. We were able to enlighten each other about their accusations against me. I told them, I couldn’t distribute their inheritances easily because I’m still alive. What if they lose them, they would run and depend on me in the end),” recalled Azenith.
“Gusto nila, fifty-fifty kami sa hatian sa mga negosyo namin. Sabi ko, hindi puwede. Dapatsixty-forty lang. Ipinundar ko rin naman ang mga aria-arian. Kung patay na ako, sige, sila na ang bahala (They want 50-50 sharing from our businesses. I told them I wouldn’t agree on that. It should be 60-40 because I also established those properties. They would be okay if I am gone already),” she explained.
All’s well that ends well.
“Ngayon, magkaintindihan na kami ng mga anak ko. Naliwanagan na sila kung bakit ako istrikto sa kanila pagdating sa negosyo(My children and I have understood each other now. They are enlightened why I was strict with them in running our businesses),” smiled Azenith who stars in films like Neal “Biboy” Tan’s “La Viudad” and Teejay Gonzales’ “Paghilom.”
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