They were one of the biggest reel-to-real relationships of their generation.
In an episode of the ‘Can I Come In?’ podcast of Sarah Bahbah, Filipina actress Liza Soberano went unfiltered and spoke about some parts of her personal life.
The 27-year-old star disclosed the status of her relationship with her former perennial on-screen partner and boyfriend, actor Enrique Gil.
Liza told, “I’ve been honestly itching to tell people this because I haven’t been very truthful. Quen hasn’t been very truthful. Quen and I broke up. We’ve been broken up for almost three years now.”
She then revealed that their break-up happened more than three years ago, adding that they decided to remain mum on the matter due to Gil’s personal request, as well as her being a “people pleaser.”
“I don’t want to speak for him, but I think it was coming from a place of not wanting it to be real. And at the same time, you know, I agreed to that because I also didn’t want it to be real. And this is coming from the people pleaser side of me because I was so afraid that if people found out we weren’t together anymore, my career would go bad, or you know, people just wouldn’t love me anymore.”
Parting ways was definitely not easy, she recalled, as Liza admitted that she still loved Enrique as a person and still looks back on their relationship fondly.
“When I broke up with him, I would say it was such a beautiful breakup because it was still so, so full of love… it was so hard for me to actually break up with him because I love him. I still love him as a person.“
Liza and Enrique, also known as the love team LizQuen, were first seen together in the 2013 movie ‘She’s The One’.
The following year, they were officially launched as a pair through the top-rated 2014 primetime teleserye ‘Forevermore,’ which propelled them to becoming one of the three major love teams at that time.
Due to the pairing’s success, they were later given multiple follow-up projects, such as serials ‘Dolce Amore’ and ‘Bagani,’ and the movies ‘Just The Way You Are’ and ‘My Ex and Whys.’
Their last work together was the ABS-CBN drama ‘Make It With You,’ which was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the network’s shutdown in 2020.
Since then, they have concentrated on their individual careers, with Liza having pursued Hollywood, where she was cast as Taffy in ‘Lisa Frankenstein’ that came out in 2024.
Meanwhile, Enrique made the movies ‘I Am Not Big Bird’ and the Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) entry ‘Strange Frequencies: Taiwan Killer Hospital’ that same year.
In February, Liza shared that a reunion project is in the works for them, but the status of it is unknown at the moment.