On court cases and revealing truths
In a tell-all interview with Diaz on Sunday, Barretto claimed that Raymart was allegedly abusive toward Claudine, and would even resort to sexually abusing his then-wife, leaving the actress often running away like a ‘scared mouse’ and ending up like a zombie.
Did celebrity vlogger Ogie Diaz seek out the feisty 90-year-old matriarch Inday Barretto so Diaz would make the old woman rat on her former son-in-law Raymart Santiago? And his alleged cruelty toward actress Claudine Barretto in the last months of their living under one roof?
OGIE Diaz
Photograph courtesy of ogie diaz/instagram
The widowed matriarch starkly described to Diaz a ruthless sado-masochist beast known in showbiz as Raymart Santiago from the esteemed family of the late well-loved filmmaker Pablo Santiago. Raymart is a younger brother of actor-directors Rowell Santiago and Randy Santiago.
Or was it the matriarch who sought out the former showbiz reporter-comedian who is now a very influential vlogger so she could expose Raymart’s alleged cruel acts against her youngest daughter?
RAYMART Santiago
Photograph courtesy of raymart santiago/instagram
But both the matriarch and the vlogger could be charged in court by Santiago for violating a gag order for bringing up the past between Santiago and his ex-wife. The ex-couple’s marriage was annulled in 2013.
Raymart’s lawyers, Howard M. Calleja and Katrin Jessica I. Distor-Guinigundo, recently put out a statement regarding the violation of that gag order. But only the old matriarch was being accused of a violation. Was it not the responsibility of Diaz to know of the legal impediments of publishing in his vlog an interview that touches extensively on the rocky relationship of the matriarch’s daughter during the last months of relationships?
In a tell-all interview with Diaz on Sunday (19 October) Barretto claimed that Raymart was allegedly abusive toward Claudine, and would even resort to sexually abusing his then-wife, leaving the actress often running away like a “scared mouse” and ending up like a zombie.
Of course, the interview didn’t sit well with the actor, as his legal counsels Calleja and Distor-Guinigundo, responded to the interview in a lengthy statement, as seen in a post on Diaz’s Facebook page.
“Our client has watched the recent interview of Mrs. Inday Barretto (Mrs. Barretto) with Mr. Ogie Diaz, uploaded in the latter’s YouTube channel Ogie Diaz Inspires on October 20, 2025,” the statement reads.
