Julia ayaw nang magpanggap: Kung ayaw n’yo, it’s not my problem anymore! 

“HINDI ko na problema yun!” Yan ang matapang na pahayag ni Julia Barretto para sa lahat ng taong ayaw sa kanya.

Kung noon ay ume-effort pa siya na baguhin ang kanyang sarili para lang na-please ang ibang tao, ngayon ay natuto na siya.

“When I was younger, it made me so stiff. It made me careful of the things that I always say or, like, careful, like, how I present myself,” sabi ni Julia sa isang podcast kasama ang kapatid na si Claudia Barretto.

Alam ng dalaga na naging kalakaran na sa mundo ng showbiz ang karirin ang magandang image para magustuhan ng publiko pero inilarawan niya itong isang “trap”.

“For celebrities, it comes so naturally to always think what public perception would be, what they would say. It’s, like, automatic.

“It’s, like, part of us already, and it’s so hard to get yourself out of that trap,” pahayag ng aktres.

Paliwanag pa niya, “I feel, like, I’m at a point in my life where, in my career, that what you see is what you get. I don’t put an effort anymore to put up a facade to satisfy the image that you have of me in your head.”

Tapos na raw ang panahon na siya ang nag-a-adjust para sa ibang tao na hindi sita feel, “Right now, it’s like I don’t want to sacrifice my freedom as a person just because I’m afraid of who I’m gonna disappoint or who I’m going to upset.

“If it’s not going to match the image in your head of me at this point, it’s not my problem anymore,” lahad pa ng dalaga.

Keri lang ni Julia ang pangnenega sa kanya ng bashers pero iba na kapag pamilya na niya ang involved, “First reaction is, when they say something about you and you know yourself so much, and when you know the truth, and you know the real story, of course, it hurts because that’s, like, that’s not me. Or sometimes it’s, like, no, that’s not the story.”

Dugtong niya, “What I don’t like witnessing or seeing happen is when they involve my family. You can say anything you wanna say about me, but don’t say anything about my family.”

Nakalulungkot din daw ang katotohanan na mas gusto ng mga tao ang mga balita tungkol sa pagkakamali at iskandalong kinasasangkutan ng isang artista.

“I feel, like, when a celebrity makes a mistake, they celebrate even more. And they wanna dig deeper because it makes them realize, ‘Oh, they’re just like us. She’s like me.’

“And instead of punishing themselves for their mistakes that they have done, they just rather punish somebody else for it,” sabi pa ni Julia.