One of the most controversial episode of Maalala Mo Kaya
(MMK on its 20th Year) is the Manika episode aired last Sarurday,
June 30, 2012. The story revolves on Nene (greatly played by Jane Oineza) who love her
mother so much and just want for their family to be whole again, finds herself
being abused repeatedly by her stepfather with her mother’s consent.
It’s heartbreaking to see such episode wherein a mother, which should be protector and who would sacrifice everything for her children
in many cases, portrayed a different role. In this case, Nene’s mother, Cora, a
drug dependent, afraid of being left again by her second husband, agreed to let
her daughter be used by her husband so to stop his womanizing. Nene pleaded for her mothers help but Cora end
up even helping her husband.
You would probably say, no mother in her right mind, will do
such thing to her daughter. And you are
right. I just pitied her mother for letting herself be influenced by drugs and
be drowned in too much obsession for her husband's attention and love.
