Janice de Belen, Gelli de Belen at Ariel Rivera
ABOT-LANGIT ang pasasalamat ni Janice de Belen na si Ariel Rivera ang naging asawa ng sisteraka niyang si Gelli de Belen.
Hindi raw kasi selfish si Ariel at talagang tumatayo na rin itong tatay sa kanyang mga anak bilang isa nga siyang single working mom.
“I am happy for her and I am thankful si Ariel ang asawa niya because si Ariel is not only good to her. He is good to us,” pahayag ni Janice sa panayam ni Karen Davila para sa kanyang YouTube channel.
Patuloy na chika ng actress-TV host, “Because when my mom passed, he was there, he helped us. We had somebody who was calmer than us.”
Noong naging mag-asawa raw sina Gelli at Ariel at nagkaroon ng mga anak, nag-e-effort din daw ang singer-actor para mapalapit sa kanyang mga anak.
“He was good to my kids. He never thought of them as anybody different. Ano rin siya parang tatay kung magsermon.
“Minsan tatanungin pa niya ‘ko, ‘Okay lang ba pagkakausapin ko (anak mo)?’ Sabi ko go!’
“So for a really long time he was also a father-figure to my kids and I am really thankful for that. Kasi lagi kong iniisip kung iba ‘yung asawa ni Gelli, paki ba naman niya sa amin,” sey pa ni Janice.
Nausisa rin ni Karen sa seasoned actress kung gusto pa ba niyang magkaroon uli ng partner in life dahil matagal-tagal na rin siyang single.
“I am really okay like this. I am good like this. My own time. My own everything,” tugon ni Janice.
Samantala, naibahagi naman ni Gelli na mas naging close raw sila ng nakatatandang kapatid noong magkaroon na sila ng sariling pamilya.
“I would think that we were never super close as kids. But then when we both had our families, that’s when we started to get closer when we had children,” chika ni Gelli.
“The next time nag-bond pa kami ulit was when she got separated. Parang it gave us time to really focus on each other.
“It gave her time to actually really get closer to us. You know she was alone, then of course we needed to be together more, and then of course, when our mom passed,” pagbabahagi pa ni Gelli.