Enrique Gil and Liza Soberano. Photos: Instagram/@enriquegil17, Screengrab from YouTube/Can I Come In?
Liza Soberano confirmed that she and Enrique Gil have ended their relationship for “nearly three years” now, ending the longstanding speculations about their breakup.
Soberano introduced their break up on the “Can I Come In?” podcast on Thursday, August 14, when she and filmmaker Sarah Bahbah have been discussing the Filipino-American actress’ relationship with Gil.
“I’ve been itching to inform folks this as a result of I haven’t been very truthful. Quen hasn’t been very truthful. Quen and I broke up,” she mentioned.
“However yeah, we’ve been damaged up for nearly three years now. And the rationale, properly, initially the rationale why we haven’t mentioned something about it’s as a result of Enrique or Quen requested me to not say something about it first,” she continued.
The actress admitted that she and Gil didn’t need to announce their break up at first as a result of they got here from a spot “of not wanting it to be actual,” saying it’d’ve had one thing to do with the “folks pleaser” aspect of herself.
“I don’t need to communicate for him, however I believe it was coming from a spot of not wanting it to be actual. And on the similar time, you understand, I agreed to that as a result of I additionally didn’t need it to be actual. And that is coming from the folks pleaser aspect of me as a result of I used to be so afraid that if folks came upon we weren’t collectively anymore, my profession would go unhealthy, or you understand, folks simply wouldn’t love me anymore,” she mentioned.
“It was me once more pretending or placing the issues I must do for myself off to make them blissful or make them really feel protected. However yeah, me and Quen broke up nearly three years in the past,” she added.
Soberano admitted that she “genuinely anticipated” that she and Gil would get married sooner or later, however it will definitely didn’t occur as a result of they “weren’t a match anymore.”
“After I broke up with him, I’d say it was such a lovely breakup as a result of it was nonetheless so, so full of affection… it was so arduous for me to really break up with him as a result of I really like him. I nonetheless love him as an individual. After I look again at our time collectively, I see good moments on a regular basis,” she recalled.
Referring to Gil as a “childhood finest buddy,” the “Forevermore” star turned emotional when she admitted her guilt for “not being the one to carry on” to their relationship.
“I carry loads of guilt for not being the one which held on as a result of that’s what my followers wished to do. But additionally, like, I wanted to seek out myself and develop, too… and that’s to not say he’s a foul individual. He didn’t do something unhealthy. Nothing unhealthy occurred. Our breakup was actually good, it was simply that we weren’t a match anymore,” she mentioned.
‘Worthy of affection’
Soberano mentioned she had already fallen in love with Gil even earlier than they formally turned a love crew, including that she “felt particular” when the latter was already holding in touch together with her for fairly a while.
“Our love story sort of occurred truly very organically. It didn’t actually begin as a manufactured love crew first. Like they have been emotions earlier than we even have been a love crew… I heard from folks on the studio that he was requesting to work with me particularly,” she recalled.
“We finally ended up doing a film collectively the place we weren’t the lead roles, however we have been the second leads,” she continued, apparently referring to the 2013 movie “She’s The One.” “I performed his finest buddy, and there was a budding romance between the 2 of us. And I believe that’s when, in hindsight, that’s after I fell in love with him. However I used to be suppressing it the entire time.”
(From left) Liza Sovereign and Enrique Gil. Photos: instagram/ @lizasoberane, @enriquegil17
The actress additionally admitted that being in an onscreen partnership felt like a “security web” away from her childhood trauma.
“I gained a lifelong finest buddy. My past love. But additionally it’s when all of the violence and abuse stopped as a result of I began additionally incomes extra and having the ability to pay for issues on my own.”
“I used to be capable of take myself out of poverty due to the love crew,” she continued. “And I used to be capable of do all of the issues I couldn’t earlier than with out folks bringing me down. So yeah, the love crew was additionally a security web, but in addition like an armor for me.”
Gil has but to deal with Soberano’s revelation, as of this writing.
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Studies of Soberano and Gil’s breakup have been making rounds since a 2023 unreleased interview of the Philippine Leisure Portal claimed that they haven’t been collectively since October 2022. Nonetheless, neither of the 2 confirmed nor denied the rumors.
The actor additionally mentioned he and the actress “are nonetheless collectively” in February 2024, though they determined to place themselves first.
