Julio Diaz regrets drug use, denies drug pushing

The 59-year-old actor said that he does not want to engage in any more of this vice as it brought him to something as grave as an arrest. (Photo: Bulacan Police)

Regret was evident in the face of Mariano de Leon Regaliza, more known as the veteran actor Julio Diaz after authorities arrested him in a buy-bust operation in Meycauayan, Bulacan on April 20, Friday.

True enough, the actor apologized to his fans for disappointing them. “Super pagsisisi talaga (I feel real regret),” Diaz said in an interview with DZMM.

While he confessed to using illegal drugs, he, however, denied being a drug pusher.

“Nagkataon lang naman siguro na since meron palang buy-bust operation na sinasabi, ‘di ko ho alam na ano… Ako ay nahuli sa isang bisyo. Sa aking pagkakaintindi, maaaring gumamit ako, pero hindi ito isang bisyo na nilamon ako… ng droga (I guess it just so happened that there was a buy-bust operation and I did not really know… I was caught with this vice. In my understanding, I may be using drugs, but this vice does not mean that drugs consumed me),” he explained in an interview with ABS-CBN.

In his DZMM interview, he likened his vice to demons that tempt him into submitting himself.

“Hindi ko rin maintindihan. May nagdadatingan na demonyo, natukso. Tumigil na ako talaga, it so happened na ganito… Natukso, tukso talaga (I also do not understand. Demons come then I get tempted. I already stopped, it so happened that this…I was tempted, temptation),” Diaz said.

The 59-year-old actor said that he does not want to engage in any more of this vice as it brought him to something as grave as an arrest.

“Kung maaari tigilan na natin ito talaga. Ayaw ko na talaga. Ayaw ko na itong pakiramdam na ganito na umaabot sa ganito. Ako lang naman ay gumamit lang kung minsan at bakit itong kung minsan na ito ay… bakit naging demonyo talaga tukso (If possible I want to stop it. I really do not want to anymore. I do not want to feel this that it reached this. I only used it sometimes and this sometimes…demons really tempt),” he added.

Diaz is an award-winning actor in several films and television series since the 80s until present. He is part of the set of stars in the ABS-CBN teleserye “Asintado” starring Julia Montes.