Actress Nadine Lustre remembers her brother.
This is the personal wish of actress Nadine Lustre for her brother, who passed away several years ago due to mental health problems.
“I was completely destroyed when my brother passed away. It was super sudden. I just felt like as his big sister…I was blaming myself.”
This was what Nadine Lustre shared in a 2019 interview when she was asked about her brother’s sudden and untimely passing. She expressed that, as a family, they felt they might have been able to save him or do something to help, but realized it was already too late. She said she could only wish she had done something more—perhaps opened up to him and helped ease the burden he was carrying.
However, what happened has already happened. They were blaming themselves, but eventually, they accepted what had happened.
Isaiah Paguia Lustre, brother of Nadine, passed away in 2017. He was 16 years old. It was heartbreaking, and she was left devastated, and at that time, learned how people were dismissive of mental health.
“I was grieving at the time but on TV, I had to smile and interact with people like nothing happened. That was really hard. At some point, when I felt I was already crumbling, I’d ask for a break,” she said. “They’d respond with, ‘Just keep working. You’ll forget about it.’ It just goes to show how uneducated and out of touch we are when it comes to mental health issues.”
Recently, in a new vlog of Vice Ganda, she was asked to make a wish for someone and remembered her brother. She can feel that he is still with them, lurking somewhere near them.
She wished that wherever he may be, he is peaceful and smiling. Nadine said, “Sa kapatid ko na nandiyan somewhere. Wish ko na kung nasan man siya, peaceful siya and nasa maayos siya. Nandiyan lang siya. I wouldn’t say heaven kasi nararamdaman ko pa rin siya sometimes.”
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