Regine Velasquez and Ogie Alcasid (via Instagram account @reginevalcasid)
In a candid interview, Regine Velasquez reflects on the challenges she and Ogie Alcasid faced in their early relationship, sharing how they overcame repeated breakups to build a lasting marriage and a life together in the public eye.
In the glare of show business, some love stories are scripted for happy endings. Others earn their place in the spotlight because they survive what should have broken them.
For Regine Velasquez, the Philippines’ undisputed “Asia’s Songbird,” the early years with singer-songwriter Ogie Alcasid were not a fairy tale. They were a trial by fire.
In a recent sit-down with veteran entertainment journalist Aster Amoyo on TicTALK with Aster Amoyo, Velasquez did what she rarely does: pull back the curtain on the messiness before the music.
“Ang daming beses naming naghiwalay kasi ayoko na,” she admitted. “I don’t wanna ruin their family… ‘Kawawa ang mga anak mo,’ parang gano’n.” (“We broke up many times because I didn’t want to go on. I didn’t want to ruin their family… ‘Your children will suffer,’ something like that.”)
It was a raw confession, equal parts love, guilt, and self-preservation.
The turbulence before the calm
By the time their relationship became public, Alcasid was already a household name. The two had undeniable chemistry on stage and off. Yet, in Velasquez’s telling, their connection was shadowed by public judgment and her own conscience. She chose to walk away more than once, convinced that staying would do more harm than good.
The back-and-forth lasted until Alcasid’s first marriage was annulled, a development entertainment press reported as final and executory before the couple wed. On December 22, 2010, Velasquez and Alcasid exchanged vows in Tagaytay, in a wedding attended by industry royalty and sealing a decade-long courtship.
Standing together in the present
Fifteen years later, they remain one of Philippine entertainment’s most enduring power couples. In August 2024, both publicly dismissed online rumors of a separation, with Velasquez waving off the chatter as baseless. The truth, she made clear, was that the struggles were behind them, not between them.
Her recent candor in Amoyo’s interview was not a revelation of fresh trouble but a reminder of the grit it took to get here.
Love in the spotlight
Velasquez and Alcasid’s story is a study in the paradox of celebrity romance, where the most fragile bonds often play out under the harshest lights. They navigated not only the complexities of blending families but also the relentless gaze of an audience that expected harmony from two of the country’s most beloved voices.
Velasquez’s choice to speak about their past in such unvarnished terms is less about reopening old wounds than honoring the resilience it took to keep going. The woman who once walked away many times now sings a different refrain.
Because sometimes, the most romantic thing you can say is not “We never fought” but “We fought for this.”
