Why is Claudine Barretto angry?

Note that I am not privy to any personal detail or information about Claudine Barretto save from the news and information she readily and generously makes available to media (social and mainstream).

Note that my interest on this issue is from an educational viewpoint because we could learn a lot from what we see and hear. You might even discover that there might be a Claudine-Barretto-like person in your own life.


Can you see a pattern here?

It was September last year when Claudine Barretto sent out angry tweets to an un-named person who apparently was destroying her home/family/marital life. Her rage reached the point where she issued grave threats:


"[P]apatayin kita. You don't deserve to live. Suntukan tayo ngayon na."

Eventually, she named the target of her rage as Angelica Panganiban.

And rightfully so, Angelica's home network issued a demand letter to Claudine.

Claudine kept quiet after this legal shocker.

She also kept quiet when the man she used to call as her second father, Star Magic head honcho Johnny Manahan, called on Claudine's threat to see them all in court: "Go Ahead. Sue, Claudine. Make our Day! Para Bellum."

At that time, notice that her rage hit the news fans at the same period when her then self-titled drama show in GMA was cancelled due to low ratings.


Could it be that Claudine's rage was due to her being histrionic?

"Histrionics resemble narcissists - both seek attention compulsively and are markedly dysphoric and uncomfortable when not at the center of attention. They have to be the life of the party. If they fail in achieving this pivotal role, they act out, create hysterical scenes, or confabulate."

That was last year.


At almost the same time this year, Claudine was not saved from her own tears, rage and fears when she called a GMA News Team to a bank in Quezon City after learning that her bank account went from an alleged 5million-peso to a Zero.




I know it is not just me who thinks that if Claudine were the aggrieved party, she will not be flaunting her rage for all her fans and endorsers to see. It is obvious though that she clearly thinks that it is she who has been aggrieved. If I were the injured party, I'd flaunt pity, not rage.

It also does not make any sense how a bank would lose millions of pesos from a client's account and despite the account being a joint bank account of husband and wife, the news has conveniently left out Raymart's side - other than the damage control press release statement issued by the married couple who claim they are "still very much together."

I know it s not just me who finds these details inconsistent and not making any sense at all.


I have a feeling Claudine Barretto does not easily back down and always wants to get the upper hand on anything.

In the interview she and Raymart did on Showbiz Central's Don't Lie to Me on July 2010,

see Raymart cower and submit to what Claudine thinks is her correct knowledge on a flimsy detail (4:27-4:37).

In this clip, Claudine mentions the burial date of their pastor friend who passed away and looks on to Raymart for confirmation.

Raymart volunteers the information "Today"

Claudine interprets it as "Tuesday pala"

Raymart corrects her again and speaks to the mic this time to say, "Today, today."

Claudine gives an expression of surprise, "Huh?"

Raymart reluctantly and reiterates "Today"

Claudine insists what she knows: "Hinde. Ang alam ko tomorrow."


Watch how she does not waver and sticks to what she thinks she knows is right while Raymart sheepishly gives in.






Has Claudine Barretto always been this angry?


I do not live with her 24/7 nor was I present when she was growing up. But I did watch on TV her live interview about Rico Yan's death and re-watched it again via the uploaded video on YouTube below:




In this exclusive interview, Boy Abunda asks Claudine to relate the details of how she knew of Rico Yan's death.

I have the feeling that Claudine is 100% telling the facts from 0:27-1:41 and her facial expressions and words are telling us the truth.

When Claudine saw her mother pale and asks her mother why this is so (0:50-0:57) , Claudine rolls her eyes in annoyance and irritation as she tells us her mother's answer.

When she finally reaches the point of her story where she now knows that "Rico has passed away," (1:31-1:37)

notice how she says: "yun, yun lang"

-- could this be her exact same sentiment about his death?

Her apathy is striking.


Imagine that you were in a close and intimate relationship with someone who has just died - regardless whether the relationship was loving or abusive - and see yourself relating / re-living the moments you learned of his or her death. Would you also remember / re-live the feelings you felt at those moments? More than remember, they would surely come up on their own provided that you did feel those feelings.

And her non-feeling was confirmed by Claudine herself when asked by Boy Abunda at 2:36: "Were you hoping if he was still alive?"

Claudine responded at 2:47: "I was hoping he was still in the hospital. I don't know what I felt exactly."

Notice that Claudine was more emphatic when she was relating what her mother said as the reason of her mom's paleness: "Nahihilo lang daw sya" (0:55-0:58).


What was most telling was 2:53-2:54 when she re-stated her exact feelings about her ex-lover's death:

"This cannot happen to ME."

and added as an afterthought - remembering how that statement would reflect on her -

"or to him. More than anything, this cannot happen to him"

with her tears grinding to a halt at 2:55-3:00.


I do not know the reason for her microexpression of anger and disgust - which her face leaks out at (pause at) 3:39.

She also grits her teeth (this is an expression of anger which she is trying to hold back) at 3:49 and at 4:28-4:29 in reference to the problems she and Rico were facing as already forgiven, "we forgive each other na."




And why does she like to pick fights?






I have the feeling that ABS-CBN knows of Claudine Barretto's attitude and has expertly maneuvered, protected and built her soft, wholesome image. They have also performed tons of damage control.

Now that she is being handled by GMA - who relatively knows little of Claudine's probable Histrionic Personality Disorder - it is anyone's guess what will happen next in her career.



"From time to time, no longer able to pretend and to suppress their rage, they have it out with the real source of their anger. Then they lose all vestiges of self-control and rave like lunatics. They shout incoherently, make absurd accusations, distort facts, and air long-suppressed grievances, allegations and suspicions.

These episodes are followed by periods of saccharine sentimentality and excessive flattering and submissiveness towards the victim of the latest rage attack. Driven by the mortal fear of being abandoned or ignored, the narcissist repulsively debases and demeans himself.

Most narcissists are prone to be angry. Their anger is always sudden, raging, frightening and without an apparent provocation by an outside agent. It would seem that narcissists are in a CONSTANT state of rage, which is effectively controlled most of the time. It manifests itself only when the narcissist's defences are down, incapacitated, or adversely affected by circumstances, inner or external.

Pathological anger is neither coherent, not externally induced. It emanates from the inside and it is diffuse, directed at the "world" and at "injustice" in general. The narcissist is capable of identifying the IMMEDIATE cause of his fury. Still, upon closer scrutiny, the cause is likely to be found lacking and the anger excessive, disproportionate, and incoherent."