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MANILA, Philippines – Actress Heart Evangelista posted a touching tribute to the late senator Miriam Defensor Santiago who died Thursday, September 29.
On Instagram, Evangelista wrote: “My mommy, my Tita, my Elizabeth Taylor, my lawyer, my mentor my everything. I don’t know what to say. I cannot say goodbye.
“I just can’t. You put so much happiness and positivity in my life that I just can’t imagine I can’t call you ever again. Tita, I remember you telling me it will be like you just travelled to see your son who you just imagine is studying abroad. I might have to think like that for now. I love you my super hero. I will miss you my Cleopatra. I will be the luckiest girl in history to have you as my second mom. I love you so much!!!! Until we meet again my mommy m.”
In another post, she wrote: ” I love you Tita. I can’t believe you’re gone. My number one protector . Thank you for being my hero.I love you so so much. I don’t know what to do.”
In her third post, she added: “You would read Vogue for me and in return I would study your law books. You made me study the ‘serious Einstein subjects’ and bring me to meet the ‘kings and queens’ the way you would say it.
“You showed me so much of the world, put on my slippers when I had a migraine and fed me the best lobsters in bed. I would sleep over for weekends and stay up till 2am and we would talk about Cleopatra and Grace Kelly. Your big hair and workout clothes, your lambing tone, your sweetness and kisses. When this photo was taken a halo appeared on my screen. Indeed you were and will always be my guardian angel.”
She also posted on Twitter: “My supermom is gone.”
My supermom is gone
— LoveMarie O.Escudero (@heart021485) September 29, 2016
Santiago played a significant role in Evangelista and her husband senator Chiz Escudero’s relationship. It was Santiago who introduced the two to each other.
Back in 2012, Evangelista, in an interview on the show Tunay Na Buhay shared how she and the senator became close. She described Santiago as her second mom.
“Different kami. (We’re different) we’re opposite, but we learn I think a lot from each other,” she said.
Santiago is survived by her husband Narciso Santiago Jr and her son, Narciso Santiago III. Her youngest son, Alexander Robert, died in 2003.
Santiago, who ran for president in May, has battled lung cancer since 2014. – Rappler.com
Photo from Sarah Black’s book ‘We, Love.’
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