Boy Abunda denies keeping silent on ABS-CBN shutdown

August 17 – Boy Abunda recently dismissed the notion that he had nothing to say on the forced shutdown of ABS-CBN, pointing out that he has made his feelings on the matter very clear.

As reported by Push, the TV host who recently launched the first episode of his online show “Talk About Talk”, told his guests that he could have shared his views with the audience if he had been given a platform to do so. earlier.

“I don’t have a platform. If I had done ‘Tonight with Boy Abunda’ or ‘The Bottomline with Boy Abunda,’ I could have had a space where I could express my opinions on the congressional hearings, on the decision. , but I don’t have them. That’s one of the reasons why I seemed silent,” he explained.

Abunda also admitted that he was the kind of person who remained silent when he was grieving and in pain.

“I don’t like people to worry. I don’t like people paying so much attention to me. I like to be quiet. I like to think. It takes me time to be able to completely accept the pain.” he said.

The host added that he followed the example of Nelson Mandela, who once said: “Don’t enter the debate too early, listen.”

“I would say that now we have to pace ourselves because it’s going to be a very long winter. But that’s not to say that I wasn’t hurt, that I wasn’t angry or that I didn’t not cried, because I did all of the above,” he said.

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