MARTIN ACCEPTS FATE, SUSPECTS POPS HAS NEW MAN
Manila, Jan. 23, 2000 Martin Nievera seems resigned to his single life, and has told reporters he’s gone on with his life dating other girls. He’s been talking openly about Katrina Ojeda, the “other woman” who’s suspected by many to be the cause of the final break-up of the Martin-Pops marriage.
“Katrina is one of the girls that I date. But she’s not here right now,” Martin said. But he explained that “let us not forget that this dating thing happened after I was turned down. You know what happened with my life. I screwed up and I admitted to the world that I was such a bad man by screwing up. But I tried my best to win Pops back.”
He went through a difficult period of adjustment after moving out of their conjugal home.
“You don’t know how many sleepless nights I’ve spent in a suddenly strange place where I find myself crying on the floor in a puddle of tears because I was suffering because of my folly. I was very sincere in trying to win her back. I was all out in my efforts, there’s no truth to the rumor that I was seriously seeing another girl at the time that I was asking her back.”
“But then I’ve realized that this is exactly the kind of life that Pops wants. She really doesn’t want me back so there was nothing left for me to do but to move on,” he said. “What am I supposed to do. Sit and wait up for her to change her mind?”
Why did he not wait longer for Pops to forgive him and take him back?
“I am the kind of guy who doesn’t want to be alone for a long time and Pops knows this. So I am sure she knows that it will be just a matter of time before I begin seeing someone again, or I begin seeing Katrina again.”
Martin admits his failed marriage has changed him.
“I have refocused my efforts to my music. I am no longer inspired by just one thing or person now. I am so very much inspired by the reaction the people have been giving me with my concerts and my albums.”
Martin has “lapses of happiness” and confessed that he really feels blessed.
“Do you think God will bless me this much had I been untrue to myself all these time? He knows that I tried my very, very best to put my life back in order. And maybe it was for this reason why His grace kept pouring in.”
“You’ll be surprised but there’s really something about media the newspaper reporters and the television cameras that makes me want to be more sincere, so honest, so willing to tell the truth. My conscience is clear, I have nothing to hide anymore. And the reason why I’ll never get tired of explaining is that I never wanted the people to get only half of the story. I always wanted the people to know the truth.”
But Martin suspects strongly that Pops also has another man in her life.
“I want to meet whoever this man is that is making Pops happy nowadays. I am not convinced that there is absolutely no one in her life now. You see her, she’s beautiful and she seems happy. I really want to meet him. Also, I don’t believe that there is a woman who can be this tough, this strong if there is no man behind her,” he said.
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