IN AN interview with Mega Entertainment’s G3 San Diego, in its November issue released on Tuesday, actress Julia Barretto admitted that she’s in love.
“Would you say you’re in love?” was San Diego’s question to Barretto.
Her answer: “Yeah.”
Barretto, 23, first stirred rumors of a new romance in March, when she posted about her birthday dinner which included “my family and a loved one.”
She then declined in May to categorically confirm whether she was single, but hinted that her “heart is fine” and she was “very happy.” On the subject of love, Barretto also said she intends to now “protect it with all that I have,” coming from past controversies that beset relationships.
In her new Mega interview, Barretto reiterated her mindset when it comes to having a relationship while also being a public figure.
“I think nobody understands the kind of trauma of having a relationship so public, and then also have a lot of people see when your relationship fails,” she said.
Barretto’s last public relationship was with actor Joshua Garcia. “Like it’s so traumatizing for me because I genuinely cared about this guy, I genuinely loved this guy, and then I shared so much that when we broke up, they thought they knew the whole story. They thought they knew my pains, they thought they knew my joys, they thought they knew everything – all the reasons that caused the breakup. But nobody really does,” she said.
Barretto’s breakup with Garcia formed part of one of the biggest showbiz controversies in 2019. At the time, the actress was also romantically linked with Gerald Anderson, who was also newly single coming from his relationship with actress Bea Alonzo.(ABS-CBN)
