On December 25, actress Bela Padilla snarled at a netizen who used her name to react to a post about a person’s experience getting locked inside a bathroom.
Padilla replied, ‘You think you’re funny?’ on her Twitter account to the netizen who referenced her to the post.
https://twitter.com/padillabela/status/1474497701169487875?s=21
As a result, netizens started piling on their reactions to Padilla’s response.
https://twitter.com/scorsaguin/status/1474638614671753217
Some of them gave more context to the story, citing the reports that Padilla locked herself inside a bathroom after reporters reprimanded the actress in 2013.
— Maria (@Mariatwitsta) December 25, 2021
Other netizens recalled the “harassment” rumors in 2010, wherein GMA Network Primetime Queen Marian Rivera confronted Padilla and locked the actress in a bathroom for allegedly flirting with Rivera’s then-boyfriend and Endless Love co-star Dingdong Dantes.
Actually eto yung pinaka context e haha. pic.twitter.com/n6RAPPb51P
— Maria (@Mariatwitsta) December 25, 2021
https://twitter.com/80sradicals/status/1474722894227795968
so u agree? u got locked in the cr?
— xian el (@notraye) December 25, 2021
Shett totoo ngaaaaaa NAURRRRRRRR HAHAHAHHAHAAH
— PR ✨ (@prrrrb) December 25, 2021
Others sided with Padilla, noting that those were traumatic experiences and should not be a part of the joke.
Kaya pala hindi natuwa si Bela sa joke kasi traumatic experience naman pala yung naranasan n'ya sa CR
— Tiggy Tigidi𝕏 (@m0onrivers) December 25, 2021
but apparently, her "trauma" is a very funny punchline to everyone. twitter is all about mental health unless it's a local celebrity ig
— ejao (@eewijao) December 26, 2021
Traumatized pa si bela
— K.R. (@krodriguez7388) December 25, 2021
In 2014, the two patched things up when Padilla guested on Rivera’s variety show, Marian.
Padilla even expressed her interest in working with Marian again on a future project in 2019 during her guesting in Tonight With Boy Abunda.