“I became a better person. Sometimes, a humiliating experience will make you a better person,” Tulfo said in a taped interview aired on ABS-CBN’s “The Buzz” Sunday, May 13.
He also said the most important lesson he learned from the incident was, “You win some, you lose some. You cannot win them all sa away.”
Tulfo was shown in a Youtube video taking a beating from Raymart and company. The actor said, however, that it was Tulfo who threw the first punch that led to the brawl.
Sympathy for the flight attendant
The broadcaster said he shouldn’t have interfered when he saw Claudine berating the Cebu Pacific flight attendant at the airport. He also insisted that before incident, he didn’t know the woman was Claudine.
“Pero hindi ko maatim na iwanan yung isang tao na inaapi,” he said. “Nakita ko yung isang matron na pinagagalitan yung isang maliit na empleyado ng Cebu Pacific. May katuwiran yung matron na magalit kasi naiwan yata yung bag niya kung saan siya nanggaling. Pero nung naging personal na siya and she started cussing and insulting the poor woman, nag-iba yung simpatiya ko.”
Tulfo added, “Nag-sympathize ako sa kanya (Claudine), e. Pero when she started getting personal. Sabi ko, ‘wow, kawawa naman yung babae.’ Porke’t kaibigan siya ng mga Gokongwei (headed by John Gokongwei, who owns Cebu Pacific), ganito ang pagtrato niya sa babae. So kinuha ko yung aking cellphone na may camera, kinunan ko.”
Tulfo explained that he was planning to use the photo for his column. He added he wanted to approach Claudine and ask her why she confronted the flight attendant.
Tulfo claims that trouble started when Raymart approached him. Tulfo he insists he never provoked the couple.
“Wala akong dahilan para i-provoke sila kasi hindi ko sila kalaban at ngayon ko lang sila nakita,” he said.
‘This cannot happen to me’
Before the airport scuffle happened, Tulfo thought he was not susceptible to this kind of incident.
“Di ba sabi, this can happen to other people, this cannot happen to me. Yan ang mindset ko noon. Kaya nung nasa ground na ako, sabi ko, ‘loko loko ka Mon, kung tumakbo ka hindi mangyayari sa iyo ito’,” he shared.
He admitted that he made a mistake by not running away.
“Dito ko nalaman na kahit magaling ka sa martial arts, sa ganun karaming tao, hindi mo kaya. Ang ginawa ko sana, nung nakita kong marami na sila, tumakbo na ako na parang duwag,” he continued “Ang akala ko sa sarili ko, at the time, pag tumakbo ako, ano na lang ang sasabihin ng tao sa akin. Hindi ako tumakbo. I stood my ground. Nagkamali ako kasi ang dami nila.”
Tulfo said his instinct while the brawl was happening was to run to his gun, which was checked-in at the time.
“Ang instinct ko is, tumakbo kung nasaan ang baril ko. Kukunin ko yung baril. And that would have been nasty,” he shared. “Naisip ko lang sa sarili ko, ‘Naku, kung mangyayari ito, patay si Mon Tulfo’.”
Tulfo also thanked the person who uploaded the video of the airport incident on Youtube.
‘Kung hindi sa video na yun, wala na ako ngayon, lugmok na ako ngayon sa public opinion,” he said.
‘I was there to protect’
For his part, Raymart said in a taped interview, also aired on “The Buzz” May 13 that ‘Hindi ko naman ginusto yung pangyayaring ito.”
“I was there to protect lang naman. Instinct yun,” Raymart said.
He also asked the public to consider where he was coming from as to why the beating happened.
By Chuck Smith | Yahoo! Southeast Asia Newsroom
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