Regine on being the ‘third party’ in Ogie and Michelle’s breakup: I didn’t mean to…if I could just take it back
Asia’s Songbird Regine Velasquez broke down in tears while talking about being the “third party” in the breakup of former couple Ogie Alcasid and Michelle van Eimeren.

The singer-actress and TV host couldn’t help but get emotional when talking about the ordeal she went through when she decided to love and be in a relationship with Ogie a few years ago.

In this morning’s episode of “Magandang Buhay,” the Songbird opened up about how she faced and coped with being the “third party” in the breakup of Ogie and his ex-wife Michelle.

Regine mentioned that even though she knew she didn’t want what happened to her and Ogie, she also felt remorse because she knew that someone was hurt. “My husband and I started that way, but we were good friends. I didn’t mean it. Because that could really happen, eh.

“You don’t choose who you love, eh. Like, do I want to do it on purpose, do I want someone to get hurt? There are smart people who don’t think that way. It’s just that, sometimes it happens,” Regine began.

She continued, “There are things I don’t know about what was going on in their marriage at that time. I don’t know because I wasn’t involved in it.

“But it happened. But I just have to say, it was so difficult. And if I can bring back the time?

“I love my husband, but if I could bring back the time, I would probably prefer that we didn’t get hurt. That there were no two children who suffered because we wanted to be together,” Songbird added.

The children Regine was referring to were Ogie and Michelle’s two children, Leila and Sarah.

Regine also admitted that even though Michelle forgave her and they made up, she still felt guilty about what happened.

“For a while, I have to say, I had to live with that guilt. Like I was living in that guilt and my husband would say, ‘It was not about you. It was about me and Michelle.’

“But even then, I was there. I was part of it. I was the ‘third party.’ And for a time, Michelle forgave me, people forgave me, except me. I wasn’t forgiving myself. And I’m still working on it,” the singer said.

Following this, the singer-actress started to get emotional, “I was crying…you know, every now and then, I would remember what happened to us and I’d still be guilty. So it’s also hard to be in that situation where you don’t even mean to love someone.

“And I’m a decent person and I do not want to hurt anyone. That’s the last thing that I would want in my life. But it happens,” she shared.

“I think I’d already forgiven myself, ‘yung hindi na ako tuyo nagi-guilty. But once in a while I would remember, or when something happened to the two girls.

“But I just think, that’s not the situation anymore, eh. I’m his wife. I’m not outside anymore, I’m his family now. So I’m trying to accept myself there.

“But again, it’s very difficult because the kind of person that I am… I remember things. I don’t like anyone… because I’m very sensitive, that I’m the one who hurts, rather than the one who hurts you,” Regine said.

She also gave advice to those who are not expected to be the third party in a relationship, “For those who become the third party, of course we know what’s right and what’s wrong.

“But sometimes, when you’re in that situation, you choose not to look at the wrong. You just choose what’s in your heart. And it’s very difficult to decide not to be in that situation anymore because you’re happy there, eh.

“But you need to give importance to yourself. You need to love yourself. You always have to choose yourself. Think that you are choosing yourself, that’s why you’re in that situation. But actually no, you’re not choosing yourself when you’re in that situation. “Before you really make yourself involved with this person, first think about whether you can stand it. Because it’s really very, very difficult to be in that situation,” Ogie’s wifey chiked.

Regine and Ogie have been married for over a decade and are blessed with a son, Nate, who is now 10 years old.

Michelle is also now happily married to her husband Mark Morrow. They got married in Australia in 2009.