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Actress Katrina Halili on Tuesday tested negative for illegal drugs, the Philippines Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) said.
Actress Katrina Halili on Tuesday tested negative for illegal drugs, the Philippines Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) said. A radio report quoted PDEA chief Director General Dionisio Santiago as saying that Halili underwent three drug tests for marijuana, shabu, and Ecstasy. Following the drug test result, Halili's lawyer, Raymond Palad, said they could now face the real issue behind his client's battle, which is to find out the person behind the proliferation of Halili's sex videos created by her former lover, Hayden Kho, Jr. The PDEA has jumped into the controversial Katrina-Hayden issue after Kho's mother, Irene, has accused Halili of giving drugs to his son. Halili pressed libel charges against the mother of Kho at the Quezon City Prosecutor's Office. The two celebrities came face to face on May 28 and clashed during a two-hour hearing of the Senate on Kho's sex video now known as "Hayden cam" that has been the talk of the town since last month. The Senate received flak for turning the hearing into a circus by allowing Halili and Kho to face each other. Sen. Ramon Revilla, whose privilege speech denouncing Kho for the spread of the doctor's sex video with actress Halili on the Internet triggered the probe, has said that the next hearing would be more technical. "There will be a Part Two pero ang Part Two hindi na kasama si Kat at si [Kho], naka-focus na sa bill. Ang iniiwasan nga, ayaw natin, baka magmumukhang circus (There will be a second hearing but Katrina Irene Halili and Hayden Kho will not be there. We are also doing everything not to turn this into a circus)," he said in a recent radio interview. “This is a highly charged issue. Kaya kung sana maiwasan, sana ayoko nang mag-hearing (If it can be avoided, I don’t want to conduct this hearing)," admitted Senator Ma. Ana Consuelo “Jamby" Madrigal, the chairperson of the committee. Madrigal had to use a gavel to keep order inside the Geronima Pecson Room, where the May 28 hearing was held. Resource persons, reporters, Senate employees, and kibitzers poured into the hearing venue. Halili and her two lawyers were the first to arrive. The crowd, which included members of feminist organizations, cheered. But when Kho arrived—accompanied by his lawyer, Lorna Kapunan, and mother, Irene—the crowd had mixed reactions. While there were those who taunted him and called him “Manyak (pervert)" there were those who could not help but gush about his good looks. “Ang guwapo pala talaga ni Hayden Kho (Hayden really is handsome)!" one female Senate employee said. T-shirts bearing the words “Beware of Hayden camera" and “I’m never gonna dance again" were also distributed, with the latter an excerpt from the song “Careless Whisper" which Kho and Halili were singing in one of their four videos. Commotion erupted when Kho was brought into the hearing by Kapunan through the room’s back door. Pictures were taken of the controversial doctor. Next, it was Halili who entered the room. Her entrance, however, was almost overshadowed when somebody poured bottled water on Kho. Abner Afuang, an ex-cop and a tabloid columnist, said he did it because of disgust. Members of the Senate Sergeant-at-Arms arrested him upon orders from Madrigal. - GMANews.TV