Ellen Adarna involved in online spat with Cebu mayor's son
24 Mar - Actress Ellen Adarna found herself in an online spat with Cebu Mayor Tony Osmeña's son Miguel, when she decided to open up a can of worms involving an old conflict between him and her group of friends.
As reported on Rappler, the whole brouhaha started after the Mayor of Cebu made a statement regarding the shooting of nurse Ephraim Montalbo Nunal by David Lim Jr. - nephew of a prominent Cebu businessman and drug lord, over a traffic altercation.
Osmeña stressed that he doesn't care who Lim is, and that he will run after anybody who decide to commit a crime in his area.
Adarna, who read the post, decided to dig up an old issue with Osmeña's son, alleging that the latter had once threatened her friend Samantha Benitez in the past.
She shared a photo of a phone with a threatening message on it, and wrote, "Well, well, well. What do we have here? Throwback feeling to when your brat shot my [friend's] digi cam, hung it on her gate, and threatened us with a text message - 'The next time this happens, a bullet goes through your head"."
However, Adarna stressed in her post that her issue isn't about David Lim Jr., but about the elder Osmeña calling out on all the 'spoiled brats' without being aware that his son was one as well.
Following Adarna's allegation, the younger Osmeña decided to respond via his wife Bea's Facebook, and clarified the actress' allegation against him, which he said happened in 2009.
"I found [my wife] Bea passed out in a bar after some of her classmates called me to say her group (including Samantha Benitez and Ellen Adarna) abandoned her there. The same classmates told me a pill was slipped into Bea's glass. I had to wipe the mud off her before carrying her to my car to bring her to the hospital. She had to go on IV, and it took her 3 hours just to wake up," he said.
"Yes, I did call Samantha Benitez to ask what happened, and when answered with laughter, called her a worthless piece of [profanity]. That's it. No camera was shot, much less delivered. One question: if Samantha was so alarmed by this death threat I supposedly sent her, why did she wait until I left back for the U.S. before making it public? The incident happened on a Friday. She went to media on a Tuesday, the day she knew I was leaving (because she's supposed to be Bea's friend) for my last semester of college. How am I supposed to answer her accusations if I'm gone?"
He also raised some questions regarding Benitez's actions subsequent to the incident, further solidifying his stance about the issue.
Adarna later responded via Facebook, "Go ahead and call me whatever you want. At least I own up to my mistakes and I know I am the furthest thing from perfect. I reacted the way I did because I couldn't stand the hypocrisy and the power tripping. You're so self-righteous. You act as if you've done nothing wrong, like you're an angel. But you're not. You are a coward."
She also apologised to those who have been unwittingly brought into the issue.
(Photo Source: Ellen Adarna Instagram)
