HINDI pa nakaka-move on ang singer-actor na si JK Labajo sa pagpanaw ng kanyang ina noong 2013 dahil sa pancreatic cancer.
Kahit ilang taon na ang nakararaan, inamin ni JK na masakit sa kanya na lumaki nang walang pagmamahal at paggabay ng isang ina.
“Am I pissed that I lost her as a kid and she died way too young? Yes! I’m mad still. Unfair, it’s always unfair. But I do believe na she’s somewhere out there in the crowd,” ani JK sa isang panayam.
Kuwento ni JK: “I grew up with my lola and my uncle and my mom had a different family.
So the only time that we would bond is when she would go with me to these different kinds of auditions. Kasi I just loved singing.”
“She would be like a stage mom. That was like our main strong bonding moment together,” dagdag niya.
Namatay ang ina niya bago pa siya makapag-audition sa “The Voice Kids.”
“She passed away, because of cancer, and then five days after she passed I saw on television, The Voice Kids audition. From my perspective as a 12-year-old, I was like ‘Go sige, gawin ko for mama’,” aniya. “Kasi nawala na siya, so parang for me ‘O sige try natin, Ma. Last time’.”
Kaya tuwing nagpe-perform siya ay palagi niyang naaalala ang ina.
“No fail, ever since before I started performing, every time before I go onstage I always say a little prayer with my mom and also my lola and my papa. And so that’s something that never left me. Last Saturday, I was in Bohol. It was a great festival. So I was singing and doing my thing and all of a sudden, I was like in my brain, ‘How did I get here?’ It was my mom who would always say everything happens for a reason, ‘yun yung lagi niyang iniiwan sa akin,” sey ni JK.
