Christopher de Leon recalls moment he almost lost everything: ‘Nasangla ang bahay ko at zero balance na ako sa bank’

Award-winning actor Christopher “Boyet” De Leon remembered the days when he was very rich and famous. But everything disappeared when he got lost in fame.

“I was famous. I made lots of money. It gets into your head sometimes, especially kung bata-bata ka. You feel like you’re Superman,” said De Leon during an interview with Korina Sanchez-Roxas for “Korina Interviews” on NET25 recently.

De Leon added: “When I got famous, I was on my own. I had my own house at naging tambayan ng group yun every weekend. Parties left and right. And then you got lost. You got blinded by fame.”

Christopher de Leon and Korina Sanchez-Roxas

Asked how bad it became, De Leon answered: “At the end of my rope, nobody wanted to hire me because I became a headache. Producers shied away from me. There was a time producer na ang gumigising sa akin sa room ko. Sabi n’ya wake up at may trabaho tayo. Sabi ko naman ‘meron ba?’ I became a pain in the neck. They say I’m a good performer, but I was a headache. I became obnoxious and rowdy. Five or seven years it was like that.”

De Leon added: “I lost everything. Nasangla ko na ‘yung bahay. Nabangga na yung mga kotse ko. Zero balance na ako sa bank. Umabot na ako roon. I resigned from the Bananas Group because I want to recover and change my ways. I was just saying help!”

Slowly, De Leon said that he recovered because of his children. “Dalawa pa lang noon yung anak ko. You need to survive and kailangan mo ang family. You just realized na you’re fortunate to have all of these and then you’ll just throw it away? Sabi ko hindi tama.”

When asked how he did that, De Leon said: “Hindi mo magagawa ‘yun ng sarili mo. You need to hold on to superpower.” Watch the full interview: