Regine Velasquez Apologizes For Callous Comment On Payatas
REGINE VELASQUEZ – Asia’s songbird Regine Velasquez recently apologized for the insensitive comment about Payatas in her YouTube vlog.
According to PEP, In her vlog on October 10 (Thursday), Regine showcased her luxury bag collection with her son Nate. One of the luxury bags she featured was the vintage Fendi leather bag.
In the vlog, she associated the leather bag’s pungent smell with the Payatas landfill, a former garbage dumpsite. The DENR recently closed the landfill o n August 2017. Here was her comment:
“”Ang kuwento kasi nito, kakabili ko lang… I bought this in Hong Kong, I think.
“During that time, MTV asked me to do a documentary for street children and I went to Payatas, nakakatawa.
“Kasi kapag nasa Payatas ka na, hindi mo na maamoy yung basura, e. Kasi kayo, pare-pareho na kayo ng amoy dun.
“This is the bag I was wearing, so after the whole shooting, akala ko nasa Payatas pa rin ako. Yun pala yung bag ko yung mabaho. Mas mabaho pa siya sa Payatas.””
Here was the vlog where she made the comment:
This sparked negative reactions from some netizens. One netizen said that the comment was insensitive:
“Napaka insensitive naman po Ms Regine Alcacid ang statement mo about sa Payatas.
@greenlifenature on Twitter.
Kung mabaho man ang payatas sa pakiramdam mo. Pero diba sainyong mga basura yan na galing sainyong mga bahay ang tinatanggap namin.#reginevelasquez#payatasstatemen”
Thus, Regine apologize for her callous comment:
As per the report,there are fans that defended the Kapamilya singer. Here are some of the comments:
“1) Regine was referring to the location where she did the MTV Docu which happens to be a dumpsite in Payatas.
@erignechannel04 on Twitter
2) Mabaho naman tlga ang dumpsites. Khit dito sa amin. But if you live there, you kinda get immune from the smell. For visitors, mabaho.
Simple as that.”
“Issue naman nung amoy payatas ni Regine sa vlog kung sino ka mang pasimuno ka tumigil ka, ako na near payatas hindi nasaktan.. Payatas kaba? LUGAR TINUTUKOY YUNG SA PAYATAS KAGIGIL KA GHORL!!! “
@shemmelrotti on Twitter
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