PIOLO Pascual said it is wrong to insinuate that his decision to help director Joyce Bernal shoot footage for the upcoming State of Nation Address (SONA) of President Rodrigo Duterte reflects his political views.
The actor released a statement this Thursday about his controversial trip to Sagada and Banaue, insisting that it “has got nothing to do with [his] political stand,” nor that it meant that he was turning his back on ABS-CBN, as some had suggested.
“My loyalty has been with ABS-CBN since I was born in this business,” he said. “My trip to Sagada had nothing to do with the government.”
“I haven’t met the President personally and I don’t do politics as some may know,” he added, before explaining that he was there to help Bernal with her SONA video that aims to show “how the environment had changed positively because of the pandemic.”
“This isn’t about the President.”
Earlier this week, Pascual trended online after it was revealed that he had travelled up north with Bernal, who had been directing the President’s SONA videos since 2018.(ABS-CBN)
