Filipino beauty Hillarie Parungao, who represented the country at the Miss World 2015 pageant is going through a serious emotional crisis. Miss World Philippines 2015 Hillarie Parungao took to Facebook as she mourns her father’s demise. Hillarie won the Miss World Philippines title in 2015, and went on to compete at Miss World 2015 pageant, where she made it to the Top 11 finalists.
According to reports, Hillarie’s father died after allegedly shooting himself in the mouth inside the police station of Solano, Nueva Vizcaya after his arrest in a drug sting last Tuesday. Quoting a police report, Edmundo grabbed the gun of his police escort who had uncuffed him when he complained of chest pains. Parungao died on the spot.
Hillarie shared her dad’s and brother’s photo with a message on Facebook. "My brother and my dad in picture. My dad worked in Taiwan when I was very little and I only know him through pictures and letters. I must say, my modeling career started when he asked my mom to constantly send him our photos. This picture was taken when he came back from overseas; I finally have a face of my father. He was holding a keyboard organ for me... He had a bucket of lego for my brother. I was stunned to see my dad in person. To finally put a face on the man I have loved through photos, paid phone calls and cassette tape recordings.
I followed him everywhere around the house without him knowing, hiding behind his shadow. I turned my back for a while and I lost him, I went out of the house and found him standing by the wooden gate of our house. Reluctantly I came close to him only to see that he was tearing up. It broke my heart, terribly. A father that he was, he didn't want me to see him crying and asked me to get him a match for his cigarette. I obliged and hurried back to him. Looking up with my eyes asking him, he gave me a smirk and told me to go back in. But I stood there just watching him," she said.
She added: "My first memory of my dad... A man in his denim jeans and white t-shirt. Bubbly, full of life and love, hurting and sobbing. I kept that first memory vividly, because at that very moment I told myself that I will never want to see my father cry again, i never want him to ever be hurt. Few people close to me have heard of this story... As I sit watching him now sleeping still, I told him, 'Dad, you will never be hurt anymore. I'm broken, I will always be, and no one or nothing can ever mend my heart; but these words give me comfort."
Our condolences with the beauty queen and her family!! May her father’s soul rest in peace.
