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Mother Lily Monteverde helped Snooky Serna get through depression | PEP Interviews
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8/8/2024
Snooky Serna looks back at the start of her career when Mother Lily Monteverde took her under her wing.
She remembers how Mother Lily helped her when she went into deep depression and heartbreaks.
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Video: Melba Llarena
Edit: Khym Manalo
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00:00
I'm trying to be okay, but I'm not okay because I have lost my parents all over again.
00:25
It's been a while since Father Remy Monteverde passed away.
00:29
Then, two days after, or maybe a day after, my mother passed away.
00:36
I started with Regal Films when I was 14.
00:39
We finished our contract when I was 26, so you can just imagine.
00:46
Half of my teenage years were spent with Mother Lily Monteverde and Father, and the whole Monteverde family.
00:53
So, I know that they would not mind if I say that the loss of my adopted brothers and sisters,
01:02
namely, Meme, Rocelle, Dondon, Winnie, and Goldwyn,
01:09
the loss of them is the same as the loss of me.
01:14
I'm just trying to be okay, but really, I am not okay.
01:18
I'm floating.
01:21
It's like I have lost my parents all over again.
01:26
I never expected for this to happen.
01:29
What are your fondest memories of Mother Lily?
01:33
Too many to mention.
01:35
One that is striking is the time when I went into a deep depression.
01:42
I went crazy all the time because I just had a breakup, a bad breakup with Albert Martinez at the time.
01:51
Then, I was in a coma for one year.
01:54
And then, Mother, almost every day, no exaggeration, she was outside my room.
02:03
She was in our living room area.
02:05
Sometimes, Mother would sleep there just for me to snap out of my depression.
02:12
For one year, she would bring food.
02:15
I will never forget Aunt Inday Badiday.
02:18
Then, she would offer me to go to the States, to go to Hong Kong, just to get me out of that bulldrum.
02:28
I'm so thankful, up to this moment and forever, that Mother is the God's weapon for me to survive.
02:38
At that time, I never thought that I would survive.
02:42
Because when you're young and you're in love, your first heartache, your first breakup, you feel like that's the end of your world.
02:49
But Mother is also my true second mom who said,
02:53
Fight. You can do this. Let's pray.
02:56
She has always been like my mom, a second mother to me.
03:00
What are the advice that you will never forget that she gave to you, that you applied in your life, that helped you a lot?
03:09
Mother's advice, Mother with all her, you know, Mother's craziness to make her happy, crazy.
03:20
She has a very serious side and what Mother taught me,
03:25
First of all, she used to scold me when I was young, when I was being, I'm sorry to say, but when I was being a bit unprofessional.
03:33
That's what Mother taught me.
03:36
Love your job, be professional in what you do and it will love you back.
03:42
Second, Mother, she has also been instrumental in molding me as a better spirit, as a better Christian.
03:53
Because the other day in Regal Films, we had a Regal Community, Charismatic Community, and she founded that.
04:03
I don't know if there are a lot of people, but we had a Regal Charismatic Community.
04:09
So, that's a lot. She is a typical mother to all of us.
04:14
For me, it's Mother, of course, we know who she is, Mariciel Soriano, Dina, Aiko, Janice, Nadia, Gretchen, and the list goes on and on.
04:27
She became a lot of children.
04:30
What do you wish for the showbiz community now that, of course, an icon is gone?
04:35
I'm crying because of the question. I feel that, well, my advice is that we should continue Mother's legacy.
04:47
And let's not forget the contribution that Mother Lily made in the industry.
04:54
She's a big loss. We can't go back to the glory days of Regal Films.
05:03
For me, maybe I'm being biased, but she's just alone.
05:07
So, maybe the least that we can do is to try to live up to that flair, that Regal magic that is unexplainable.
05:21
The stars are stars. The movies are magnum opuses.
05:33
And Mother is one of those who really loves and is concerned about what will happen in the industry, in my opinion.
05:44
Contrary to what some people think, in my personal experience, we're not alone.
05:52
Our relationship went beyond that. I'm her worker, she's my producer.
05:59
Even when we say that my career went down, I lost everything, I got tired, I went through some dark times in my life,
06:09
but Mother's perspective on me didn't change.
06:12
And maybe that's what our new producers should emulate.
06:18
Don't lose your heart. At the end of it all, we're not here in the industry just for the money.
06:28
No, we're here above all else to love each other, to help one another up, to lift one another up.
06:36
And to do the best we can to make this industry survive.
06:41
Mother didn't stop producing.
06:44
Rusell is still there, Don is still there, and other people that Mother Lily trusts.
06:52
For our industry, we know that it could be a dying industry, but thanks to Regal, it's still afloat.
07:00
I hope it continues. Let's not give this up.
07:04
Because it's such a waste.
07:06
Let's love the Filipino film industry.
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