Hindi inaasahan ni Sam Milby na magiging emotional siya nang tanungin tungkol sa naging breakup nila ni Miss Universe 2018 Catriona Gray.

Sa kanyang unang pagtapak sa bakuran ng GMA-7 ay nag-guest ang Kapamilya actor-singer sa Fast Talk With Boy Abunda sa episode na umere ngayong Lunes, March 3, 2025.

Bumisita si Sam sa programa ni Boy Abunda para sa promo ng pelikulang Everything About My Wife, kung saan co-stars niya ang mag-asawang Dennis Trillo at Jennylyn Mercado.

Sa panayam ay natanong si Sam kung paano niya hina-handle ang breakups.

Maliban kay Catriona ay naging ex-girlfriend ni Sam ang actress-TV host na si Anne Curtis at ang model-TV host na si Mari Jasmine, habang nagkaroon naman sila ng mutual understanding ni Toni Gonzaga.

Sagot ni Sam sa tanong sa kanya tungkol sa breakups: “Not well. I think every breakup is a different situation.

“Kung ikaw ang nasaktan o kung ikaw yung dahilan kung bakit yung breakup, so it depends on the situation.

“But I think any breakup is not easy.”

SAM MILBY ON BREAKUP WITH CATRIONA GRAY

Pagkatapos nito ay diretsahan tinanong ni Boy si Sam: “Alam ng buong bayan na naghiwalay na kayo ni Catriona Gray. How did it affect you? How did you handle the breakup?

“It was a fairytale relationship in so far as we were concerned. The queen had found a prince and they were engaged.

“One morning, we woke up to find out that the engagement had been broken. We were distraught.

“How did you handle that?”

Inulit lamang ni Sam ang kanyang naunang pahayag: “Honestly, not well. And like I said, any breakup is not easy.

“It’s hard to talk about yung breakup namin. It’s something I didn’t wanna talk about.

“I did an interview with MJ Felipe [ABS-CBN reporter], which everyone knows about, and it was mainly to clear yung issue.”

Ang tinutukoy ni Sam ay ang mga nagsilabasang espekulasyon tungkol sa breakup nila ni Catriona.

Kabilang na rito ang sinasabing ang singer na si Moira dela Torre umano ang third party sa kanilang hiwalayan.

Paglilinaw ni Sam: “People wanna connect so many things and believe so many things na walang katotohanan.

“And I felt the need to clear yung issue na there was no third party, and yung sinasabi na si Moira yung third party.

“I wanted to make that clear, but it’s something I actually didn’t wanna talk about.

“Sa amin ni Cat, we’ve always been private about our relationship.

“And as respect sa kanya, I don’t still feel comfortable talking about our relationship.”

SAM MILBY BREAKS DOWN

Nang marinig ni Boy ang paglilinaw ni Sam, nagsalita ang TV host: “I totally get that because I know you. You want to be private in a very public business.

“But what I am interested to know is paano mo hinarap yung paghihiwalay na yon, knowing that you don’t handle breakups well.

“Sam, diretsa ito. Number one, I wanna address what you said.

“Maraming speculations dahil walang facts. Kulang kami ng alam.

“Fans kami, e. We don’t know what’s happening.

“So some people would speculate, would create stories just to make this whole thing interesting.

“But I think some people go overboard. But again, ang pinanggagalingan nun is because there is an absence of the truth of the story.

“Pangalawa, hindi maganda ang hawak mo, ang pagdadala mo sa paghihiwalay.

“And I am interested to find out, itong paghihiwalay ninyo ni Cat, how did you survive it? How did you handle that?

“And some people would say, ‘It was easy for him. He’s over it. He has moved on, et cetera.’

“We wanna hear your side of the story.”

Hindi isiniwalat ni Sam ang tunay na dahilan ng paghihiwalay nila ni Catriona dahil nanindigan siyang hindi magbibigay ng anumang detalye.

Aniya: “Well, the people are thinking that it is easy. It’s been very hard, honestly.

“And like I said, I really don’t wanna talk about any details about the relationship.

“But like I said, there was never any third party. Yung sinasabi ng mga tao na si Moira yung third party, as in walang katotohanan.

“You can believe what you want, you can say what you want, but everyone knows, in this situation, there’s no truth to that.”

Giitt ni Sam: “It’s been rough. No breakup is easy. It’s really been rough.

“It wasn’t only mag-boyfriend-girlfriend kam, we were engaged.

“And to have that not pushed through, it’s been really rough, honestly.”

Sa puntong ito ay tuluyan nang pumatak ang luha mula sa mga mata ni Sam.

Paputol-putol pang sabi ni Sam habang kinakalma ang sarili: “ And I think it’s better to be honest about it.

“I didn’t expect to be emotional right now, I’m sorry…

“I don’t want… it’s hard sometimes to talk about it, but if people think it has…

“I’m sorry… I’m sorry. I am not an emotional person and it was…

“I don’t want to go into details and I would…

“The more you talk about any issue, mas maraming bala yung mga tao to use against you, and I don’t wanna give…

“There’s no point, like, I have so much love and respect on both sides, I wanna believe, but it hasn’t been easy at all…”