This is what Nadine Lustre was told at work at the time of her brother’s death.
In an interview, actress-model Nadine Lustre shared the most challenging time she has ever encountered as an artist.
Isaiah Paguia Lustre, 16 years old, reportedly took his own life in 2017. This has been reported online but the family Lustre was initially mum about this happening. Police Officer 3 Elario Wanawan of QCPD-Criminal Investigation and Detection Unit said back then that he was found lifeless and was bathed in his own red liquid.
He is the brother of actress Nadine Lustre. Based on a previous article, in 2019, the actress opened up about this in 2019. She revealed that she and her family blamed themselves after Isaiah’s death.
According to an interview that occurred in 2019, Nadine expressed how devastated she was when her brother passed away. The death of Nadine’s brother Isaiah happened so suddenly leaving her “completely destroyed”.
From this event, she learned a lot of things including how to deal with people who have depression. Recalling so much during this time, the actress recently opened up that this was also the event when she encountered the most challenging time she has to face.
When her brother died and she asked for a break from work, what she was told instead of giving her time to cope up was to continue to work. She was told by her higher ups back then to just continue to work as she will accordingly eventually forget about it.
She shared that healing from her brother’s death was the “most challenging” time of her life. The actress expressed this in an interview with One Down on Wednesday. She was doing a variety show at that time but she was given with no choice but to pull through despite the painful loss she was suffering at that time.
“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.”
For her, that moment was the transition point of realization of how unaware many people still are regarding mental health issues. Looking back, she still doesn’t know how she made it through as she was left with nothing to do. She had contractual obligations to fill and she remembered how she was like on “autopilot”. She had to honor what was written on her contract.
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