Janice De Belen on men and marriage: 'I’m done with that'

Janice De Belen has seen both sides of love, having been married and separated, and on Friday's episode of "Fast Talk with Boy Abunda," she says she's over it.

When asked what her current take on love and on me, the veteran actress enumerated the important men in her life and said, "ang lalaking importante na lang sa’kin ay tatay ko tsaka ‘yung mga anak kong lalaki, at tsaka ‘yung apo kong lalaki. ‘Yun na."

[The important men in my life are my father, my sons, and my grandson. That's it.]

Janice continued, “Minsan-minsan, ‘yung mga k-drama, ‘yun sila, oo. Minsan importante sila sa’kin pero ‘yun na lang.”

[Sometimes, the men in K-dramas are important to me but that's it.]

According to Janice, she is well aware of how much women wanted to be her during her younger years, especially because she was previously with Gabby Concepcion and Aga Muhlach.

“My God, I know! People still tell me about that up to this day,” she said, adding that if she had to write her own epitaph in the context of men, she would write, “Ang Kinainggitan.”

When asked what her view was on men during those days, Janice said she didn't have any deeper views to it. "'Pag type ko sila, type nila ‘ko, eh 'di siyempre, ‘di ba? Ang saya, ‘di ba?” (When I like them and they like me, then it's good, right?)

She said getting married was different. "Siyempre, nung nag-asawa ako, it was different kasi feeling mo, 'yun na 'yung true love mo. Yun na yung forever mo," Janice said.

[When I got married, I thought it was different. I thought that was my true love. That was forever.]

"And then, when it fails, then you try again, and then it fails. And OK, maybe I should stop doing this. Kasi fail ka nang fail eh. Baka hindi 'yan para sa'yo," she said nonchalantly. 

When Tito Boy asked if Janice was too broken to fall in love again, the actress gave a nuanced answer that revealed the depth of her experience. "I've been broken enough," she said. 

She says she knows people mean well when they tell her "no, don't be broken."

"But this is my story," Janice said. "This is how I felt and I'm done with that." 

Asked if she had already forgiven, Janice said, “Oo naman, Tito Boy. Because I will not get to this stage in my life kung hindi ako natutong magpatawad. And I think that was the first — that was the first thing that I wanted to do, was forgive.”

Still, she maintains forgetting "is another story." 

Janice has a son with Aga Mulach named Luigi. 

In 1992, she married John Estrada and had four children together — Inah, Moira, Kaila, and Yuan — before getting their marriage annulled in 2004.

— Carby Basina/LA, GMA Integrated News