Valerie Concepcion expresses pain over daughter looking for her father

Valerie Concepcion couldn’t help but shed tears as she talked about the time her daughter Heather started looking for her father.

The 35-year-old actress turned emotional during her guesting on Boy Abunda’s Fast Talk when asked about the thing she wanted to ask forgiveness from her daughter.

“I’m sorry because she’s 18 now and she’s been looking for her father for a while, so maybe what I’m sorry about is that I couldn’t give her a normal family,” revealed Valerie.

Valerie said she’s trying hard to juggle the role of being both a mom and a dad to her daughter who grew up with no father.

Heather is Valerie’s child with former boyfriend Jeremy Carag. She gave birth to her when she was 16 years old.

“Actually it pains me when I found out that she was looking for her father because I feel like I’m not enough, I didn’t give it my all so she could find her father,” Valerie admitted in tears.

She furthered, “But now I understand. Of course, it doesn’t make her love me less just because she is looking for her father. She just really wants to know where she came from, her roots, and her story so now I understand that.”

Valerie went on to say that she was apologizing on behalf of Heather’s father who didn’t get to respond when they tried reaching out to him.

“I just want to apologize to my son that his father is like that because we tried reaching out, I tried telling him, ‘Our daughter is ready to meet you,’ but I didn’t get a response sadly.”

Despite the circumstances, Valerie said she’d always tell her daughter not to have ill feelings towards her father.

“I always tell her, ‘Don’t be mad at your dad, because no matter what happens, bali-baliktarin mo mundo, tatay mo ‘yan. You have to respect.’

“But of course, the child will never forget that he was hurt, he was disappointed,” Valerie said.

Valerie shared in the same interview that she wanted to get married at the age of 23 for Heather to have a father figure.

Valerie is now married to non-showbiz husband Francis Sunga whom she is expecting her second child with.

The two met through common friends in 2017 and tied the knot in 2019