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John Lloyd Cruz to do some soul-searching in the US

John Lloyd Cruz on making career decisions: Kailangan mas maingat kasi you’re talking of the next two or three years of your life/NPPA Images


John Lloyd Cruz is at the crossoads of his career. Now that his contract with ABS-CBN is about to expire, the actor wants to make sure he’s making the right career move for the next few years of his life.

“Hindi na ako bumabata,” he says in an interview after the presscon of Jack ‘n Jill Magic, which he has been endorsing for the last four years.

John Lloyd Cruz and girlfriend Angelica Panganiban/NPPA Images
John Lloyd Cruz and girlfriend Angelica Panganiban/NPPA Images

That's why he's taking the chance to get away from it all while on a vacation in the US to think things over.

“Mas mabigat, hindi dahil mas mahirap sa kalooban. Kailangan mas maingat lang kasi you’re talking about the next two or three years of your life.”

A first in 3 years

John Lloyd added that he’s asking a few questions from ABS – like the nature and sequencing of his projects.

It’s John Lloyd’s first vacation in three years, and he’s spending it with girlfriend Angelica Panganiban and family members.

“First time ko magbakasyon ng medyo matagal.”

But he won't propose to Angelica in the US.

“Malalaman n’yo,” he promised.

Not a father

John Lloyd hopes that when he returns in December, he would have made up his mind.

But he need not think things over regarding rumors that he is the father of a female college student.

“Ang lumalabas 15 pa lang ako (may anak na ako). Malabo mangyari yon. Dapat dumaan siya sa tamang proseso. Pwede siya pumunta sa ABS sa case ko.”

He explained that it’s hard to take things that come out as blind items seriously.

"Bilang lalaki, malalamaan mo (kung may anak ka) kasi ginawa mo yon. Hindi pwedeng hindi mo alam.”

Spreading cheer

Angelica has not even asked him about the rumor, the stuff she and John Lloyd have grown used to as public figures.

“May nagsabi pa nga noon na hindi ko tatay ang tatay ko,” John Lloyd laughs.

The actor looks forward to going around the country some more to give prize packages from Magic crackers to unsuspecting people on the street, like a young single mother in Cebu, who won a vacation package worth P50,000, and used it to go to Manila with her family.