But it turned out, "Wala rin yung transaction record na sinasabi nila. Nagalit ang asawa ko, ‘Asaan? Wala naman pala, e. Di katarantaduhan lahat ito!' Until Gretchen asked Boy, ‘Please let Nadia come. I wanna fix this.' Tinawagan ako ni Boy, ‘Please, Tart, kayanin mong pumunta dito.' I was already ano...breakdown na ako nun. Akay-akay ako. Dumating akong Rembrandt.

"Pagdating ng Rembrandt, they brought me up to the second floor, ‘I don't know.' Basta mga bodyguards na ang nagdala sa akin sa second floor. Sabi ko, ‘Nasa'n si Boy? Nasa'n si Boy?' He's downstairs. Until my phone rang, ‘Tart, nasa'n ka? Umakyat ka dito. Halika dito.'

"Sabi niya, ‘Nakikusap si Cristy kung puwede ka niyang solohin.' Sabi ko, ‘Ayoko nang makita ang pagmumukha niya!"

And even if it was against her will, Nadia agreed. When she came face to face with Cristy that night, Nadia remembered the emotions brewing inside her: "Me feeling na, ‘Anong ginawa ko sa iyo? Ba't mo ginulo ang buhay ko?'

"Umupo siya, sabi pa sa ‘kin, ‘O, umiiyak ka pa diyan.' Ginanun ako. Sabi ko, ‘Anong ginawa ko sa iyo? Anong kasalanan ko sa iyo?' Umupo siya sa tabi ko, hinawakan niya ako, ‘Anak, pasensiya na, trabaho lang. Kredibilidad ko ‘to, e.' Sabi ko, ‘Ano? E, mga anak ko? So parang, she was practically putting words to my mouth, asking me to admit that I did text her.

And the dialogue based on Nadia's recollection:

Nadia: Hindi ko matandaan. Akin na, patingin.

Cristy: Di ka nag-text sa akin, anak. Tumawag ka.

Nadia: Anong sinabi ko sa iyo?

Cristy: Sinabi mo ganito...

Nadia: ‘Nay, hindi ko sinabi iyan! Wala akong ginawang ganyan.

In her previous inteviews and statements, Nadia never revealed that she had a brief talk with Cristy. She told PEP, "Ngayon ko lang sinabi iyon. Ni hindi ko sinabi sa The Buzz iyon." She was referring to her September 27 interview with Boy Abunda. And again, she stressed: "But I know in my heart, wala akong ginawa."

The former Regal baby chose not to give details about her confrontation with Gretchen at the hotel. "I don't want to elaborate on what happened to me and Gretchen that night," she said. "Pumasok na silang lahat. It wasn't good. It wasn't good. Nagawa't nasabi ko na'ng lahat ng nagawa ko. Hindi na maganda yung nangyari."

She continued, "And then, so umalis kami ni Boy. Alam mo, going down the stairs, parang okay na ‘ko. Bumaba ako. Umuwi kami.

"Until everything came out. They're saying na nasiraan na ako ng bait. At nag-agree daw si Boy na ipadala ako sa Amerika dahil sira daw ang ulo ko. How I wished somebody just recorded what happened there but I know I came out the winner."

Nadia lost one close friend that night. She actually described the entire hubbub with Gretchen as "the biggest disappointment."

At the height of the controversy, one of the thoughts that plagued Nadia was, "CD was coming out, that's all I could think of. A CD was coming out!"They needed the [promo]. Somebody told me na she was having so much bad, bad, bad write-up na they had to divert.

She added with a mocking laugh, "Sana man lang sinabihan ako para tumulong na rin ako sa promo, di ba?"

And at press time, her stand on the possibility of reconciliation is unyielding, "My friends know me, e, and in fact, if I do give in, I mean, kung magbabati kami, ang daming mawawala sa friends ko, na parang talagang they know na, "Nad, kapag isang beses pa ulit...coz they know naman the truth, e. Hindi ko ugaling manumbat. Hindi ko rin ugaling magbilang ng pabor na ginawa ko."

Quite gravely, she added: "Hanggang dun na lang yun. I don't wanna feel that hurt ever again."