Pauline Mendoza turns emotional as she opens up about her mom's breast cancer diagnosis

Pauline Mendoza turned emotional on Friday's episode of "Fast Talk with Boy Abunda" as she talked about her mother's breast cancer diagnosis.

While at a taping in 2017, she suddenly got a text message from her mom. "'I was diagnosed with breast cancer,' ganun lang," Pauline recalled.

"At nasa taping ako nun, tapos laat ng eksena ko, masaya. Sabi ko, 'wait lang.' Hindi ko alam kung paano ko siya na-process," she continued.

As an only child, Pauline said it was really tough on her,  she "started to question God. Bakit kami? Bakit ako? Bakit si mom?"

The divine answers came in the form of her mother's strength, Pauline said. "Nakita ko sa mom ko kung gaano siya katapang. She's the strongest, she's the bravest. Kakaiba siya."

"Whatever happens, kaya pagdaanan," Pauline said of her epiphany.

The doctors gave her mom five years to live, "because stage four breast cancer, but she's doing OK na," Pauline continued.

"So parang naniwala ako na sabi ni God na kakayanin niyong tatlo yan. Binigyan niya ako ng faith. Naniwala ako sa kanya, kung gang katapang mom ko, tinry ko maging mas matapang para sa kanya, para sa aming tatlo." — LA, GMA Integrated News