LIST: Superstars Gone Bad

I remember as a college student, watching E! True Hollywood Stories where I see stories behind success and failure of the stars. I used to wonder when local showbusiness would be that daring to bare secrets of our stars. Now, it does not need a show like that to divulge showbiz secrets. "Twitter accounts" of the stars themselves are the sources of information.

1. Claudine Barretto

The once Teleserye Princess/ Queen had difficulties on separating TV series and real life. She makes her life a real teleserye. The whole Baretto family, actually is an ongoing saga of betrayal, lies and feuds. Everyone is self destructing. In any manner of defending oneself opens another bone in the closet.

For Claudine, we were all deceived. The great actress every female adored is all along - a mess. We were in denial of her true character when she gave a hint years ago. She accidentally tripped her heels while coming out of a production number in ASAP - she uttered "Ay Putang ina".

2. Maricel Soriano

As an ordinary person, I was not able to sense that something's happening to her life. Press might have too scared to tell something about her negatively. It was about maltreatment to her domestic helpers that reveal a part of the story. And another piece, when in an incident with Gerald Anderson happened in a teleserye taping.

She is now at the phase of recovery. The way an showbiz outsider sees it.

3. Rosanna Roces

Early on, the character which everyone liked is Rosanna being frank, honest and candid. These were also what basically destroyed her. She left her network when she had a rift with her talent manager. She turned her back to Lolit Solis when the latter spilled that her daughter was pregnant. In any effort to revive her career nothing happened. It is because every time her career picked up, she'd take u turn and draw another controversy.

At any rate, she's visible in indie films which is positively proving that she has mellowed lately. 

4. Nora Aunor

I am not that old to know that notoriety of the superstar in her hey days. To a Noranian, no one would admit that fame has gone to her head. What I heard were rumors of not showing up to commitments and mishaps with men she liked. This was despite the humble and down to earth image. Those were alleged stories in the 70s and 80s. 

The real Nora Aunor story has to be her arrest involving drugs. It takes lots of back stories to get accounts of the incidents and what happened next. I'm not getting into that level. Recently, this cost her to be shortlisted as National Artist. Though her defenders claim that she was not convicted. 

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When I listed them as "Superstars gone bad", it is not just about them self destructing. It shows the more human side of them. Not superficial. Not perfect. Not demi-gods. It says that ordinary people who idolize them are not too distant to who they are.

Still, a downgrade for them for managing popularity and fortune in to good use.