Claudine fails to say I love you to RicoYoung dramatic actress Claudine Barretto cried buckets on Sunday, saying she was not able to even say "I love you" to her beau, actor Rico Yan, before he died.
In an interview with The Buzz on Sunday, Barretto said she is hurt by the untimely death of Yan, who died of hemorrhagic pancreatitis on Good Friday at Dos Palmas resort in Palawan.
"It's so hard…sometimes I ask, why now? I didn't even get to see him or to hug him or to say Rico, 'I love you so much' again."
Although the two split a few weeks ago, Barretto said she and Yan planned to patch things up after his vacation.
"[He said] that when he gets back, he'd be more prepared…so everything would be all right," Barretto said.
Yan's girlfriend of four years said she relishes the moments that they were together.
"There's so much good memories and I don't know how this could happen to us. We have so many dreams and plans, we have secrets that only the two of us know," she said.
Her mother, Inday, said she feels weighed down by Barretto's grief.
"I told her if I could only have her heart and ease her pain… I think she has to be given time to grieve and to heal," the elder Barretto said in an interview with TV Patrol reporter Mario Dumaual.
She said she wanted Claudine to visit Yan's wake for her to accept his death.
"I wanted her to see Rico and realize, no matter how painful, that he is gone but that his memories will always be there," she said.
Barretto went to Yan's wake at Divine Child Chapel in La Salle Greenhills on Sunday.
The two were last seen paired in the movie Got 2 Believe.
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