Kapuso star Maine Mendoza’s mom, Mary Ann Mendoza, complained about the spread of a certain ‘scandal’ trying to implicate her daughter. Mary stressed that her daughter is not the one in the video and requested help from the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI.)
On Monday, December 28, Maine’s mom went to NBI and sought help from the Anti-Cybercrime Division after a certain video scandal that involves a person who resembled Maine went viral.
According to an article ABS-CBN, Mary Ann wanted to trace the video back to the one who first spread it in order to hold that person accountable for spreading fake news.
Mary Ann released a statement to ABS-CBN saying that as a mother, she was deeply hurt by the spread of fake news towards her daughter. She said that the issue was unfair for her daughter and their family.
“Hindi siya makatarungan. Lumagay man kayo sa ‘min bilang magulang, siguro mararamdaman niyo ‘yong sakit na nararamdaman naming pamilya niya,” said Maine’s mom.
If proven to have malicious intent, the person who spread the video could face the law for violating the Anti-Photo and Video Voyeurism Act of 2009.
However, Maine already denied the issue, and her manager, Rams David, said that the actress is confident that she was not the one in the video.
Maine was shocked to see her resemblance to the person on the said video but she clarified that it was not her. She replied to a fan’s Tweet who wanted to disperse the fake news towards Maine.
“Wtf???? Sobrang kamukha ko kinilabutan ako pero hindi ako to (Wtf? She really looks like me, but I am not her)!” the actress wrote onTwitter on Dec. 22.
Wtf???? Sobrang kamukha ko kinilabutan ako pero hindi ako to! 🥲
— Maine Mendoza (@mainedcm) December 22, 2020
Maine’s management agency, All Access to Artists Inc., has also released an official statement denying the actress’s involvement in the said video.
“All Access to Artists, Inc. and Ms. Mendoza hereby inform the public that the video is fake. It has been manipulated using deepfake technology,” read the statement shared by Mendoza’s manager, Rams David, on Twitter last Wednesday, December 23.
“Ms. Mendoza is not involved in the said video and neither does she participate in the making of pornographic and other explicit materials,” the statement added.
Maine’s management also threatened to sue those responsible for spreading the video saying, “will not hesitate to take appropriate legal action against any person circulating the same.”
“We intend to hold those individuals criminally and civilly liable for the damage caused to Ms. Mendoza. We remind the public to be more discerning of the content they see online and to help us take down this voyeuristic and defamatory content,” the management added.
