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Ellen Adarna talks about son Elias, says she's not coming back to showbiz yet

By Bianca Geli

Ellen Adarna may still inactive from acting, but the celebrity has been slowly stepping out of her hiatus and returning to social media after going on a break from the public eye in 2017.

Recently, she talked about her son Elias Modesto as well as her showbiz plans and a recent trip to Bali, Indonesia during an online radio show.

A happy Ellen greeted the hosts and gave an update on her wellness retreat.

“I didn't expect that I would get better,” Ellen told the All Out duo. “But then after I came back here, I was a different person.”

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When asked if she's ready to return to acting, Ellen answered, “To showbiz? No. I don't wanna say forever, but definitely not in the next seven years!”

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She revealed how he wants to remain a hands-on mom to son Elias, “I have to be with my son for his formative years, which is the first seven years.”

“I'm a very hands-on mom, like really…I wake up before everyone wakes up,” she shared.

Ellen then narrated her quarantine life now with Elias and how things have changed ever since she got back from her mental wellness trip to Bali. “I mean now that I came back from Bali, everything changed. But when I was depressed I would wake up at 10 and then just sleep, but I was still hands-on, I would just sleep with him [Elias] I was just at home with him.”

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“But now I wake up at 4:30 am or 5 am and I meditate for 30 minutes then I go back to him and wait until he wakes up--this is my quarantine life.

“Then we have breakfast outside and he plays or swims while I work out, that's my “me time”.

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Ellen was rumored to be in a relationship with actor John Lloyd Cruz before they both went on a hiatus from showbiz in 2017. Ellen gave birth to their son Elias in 2018.