Sid Lucero admits past anger issues: 'My ego was my biggest problem'
Sid Lucero believes he's attracting good karma now because he started treating himself well.
At the recent media conference of the action movie Karma, Sid and his co-actors were asked if they believed in karma.
“I believe in karma, 100 percent,” answered smiling.
He then explained, “I don't take it just on the extent of how you treat other people. All my life I've been up and down under the wheel. I don't really treat other people poorly. In fact, I've been raised to treat everybody as equals. But I realized it extends to how you wanna treat yourself. And ever since I started being nice to myself, the world started shining back at me.”
He reiterated, “It's more of not how I treat the world around me, but it's more of how I treat myself. I think, I treated myself so well that the universe turned its back on me.”
When asked to elaborate further on how he has treated himself before, Sid jokingly replied, “I partied too hard, is that what you wanna know?”
The Love Before Sunrise actor then admitted that used to have anger issues.
“I have a really, really bad temper. It's really bad like, I went to anger management,” he confessed.
“I've hurt people. Like, if I have a fight with my girlfriend, I can't punch her… every car from my car to the bar, butas lahat ng tires n'yo. 'Di ko naman siya masaksak, so kotse n'yo na lang lahat.
“Seryoso, it was really bad, dati yun.
“There was this one time when I had a fight with my girlfriend and I had to pee, so I went to a gas station to pee. There was this one guy, 'Puwede magpa-picture?' I punched him so hard that his eyeball burst. So, I went to anger management and found out that I was taking too much substances.”
In a separate interview with GMANetwork.com and other entertainment media, Sid admitted that his anger issues had affected his showbiz career.
He recalled, “I think, at a certain point of my career, when I started believing people when they say that I was good, I was gaining ego and I started not respecting the job, going to work without sleep, partying the night before. Not respecting the job and losing respect for people around me, further grew my ego until it exploded. Then, I realized, the only way out of it is to remember that I'm only a part of it and I have to respect everything.”
Sid revealed that his daughter influenced him to change.
“I had a fight with my baby mama and she, basically, said, 'You're not allowed to see your daughter until you see a therapist.' I have to prove to her that I was seeing a therapist.”
Sid also clarified that while his past anger issues got worse as he grew older, he wasn't proud of them.
He stated, “You grow up and you realized that the world is bigger than yourself and your own ego. You realize things that your friends say, 'IQ over EQ.'
“Anyway, I learned to handle everything better. I think my ego was my biggest problem. I was angry at everything, especially stupidity. Stupidity pisses me off.
“Then, you learn to take a breath and step back. Like I said kanina, you'll learn that the world is bigger than yourself. Then, your daughter is born and you'll realize that every action that you make is going to ripple down generations.”
Know more about Sid Lucero in this gallery:
