Melanie Marquez spoke not from a place of spectacle, but of survival, as she finally opened up about the most painful chapter of her personal life on Fast Talk with Boy Abunda on Monday, 5 January.

In the candid interview with Boy Abunda, the beauty queen-actress revealed why she formally asked the Bureau of Immigration to cancel her husband’s visa and bar him from reentering the Philippines.

According to Melanie Marquez, she wrote to the bureau on 11 November 2025—an action she described as the result of years of alleged abuse and a long, exhausting effort to save her marriage.

“I’ve been very patient,” she said. “When Adam and I got married, I really set my mindset that I want this marriage to last. I’m going to work very hard because this was my dream—to have a family.”

But that dream, she admitted, slowly turned into something else.

“Along the way, there were already a lot of things,” Melanie continued. “I was verbally abused. I was insulted emotionally, financially, and mentally. He’s very good with words. And because I was in love, Tito Boy, I endured it.”

One of the most disturbing incidents she shared occurred in March 2022—an experience she said she included in her formal letter to immigration authorities. Melanie recalled being asleep beside her husband when she suddenly felt a blow to her head.

“I was sleeping, Tito Boy. We were lying next to each other,” she recounted. “At first, I thought I was dreaming that someone punched me. But then I woke up. I saw him looking at me—and then he punched me.”

When she confronted him, his response, she said, was dismissive.

“He told me, ‘I was dreaming. I don’t know how this happened.’”

Shaken and injured, Melanie sought help immediately. She reported the incident to the police and went to the hospital for medical evaluation.

“The findings showed that there was damage to my eardrum,” she shared.

Beyond filing a police report, Melanie said she also went to the barangay to seek protection and to have her husband removed from her home.

“I asked for a protective order,” she said. “He was asked to leave.”

Instead of accountability, she recalled being met with anger.

“He couldn’t forget that,” Melanie said. “He told me, ‘I will never forget that you kicked me out of my own condo.’ He didn’t want to recognize his accountability or his behavior.”

Melanie further revealed that the alleged violence did not begin—or end—with that incident. Even before 2022, she said she experienced moments of terror, including an alleged incident in which her husband pointed a gun at her during a business-related dispute.

In October 2025, she claimed another argument escalated into physical harm.

“I was hurt again,” she said, adding that the incident allegedly resulted in a fractured third rib.

These experiences ultimately led Melanie to make what she described as a firm, non-negotiable decision to ensure distance and safety.

“I don’t want him to come back here,” she said plainly.

Melanie and Adam were married in June 2000 and have two children together. She is also a mother to four other children from different relationships—children she repeatedly described as her source of strength.

By speaking publicly, Melanie said she hopes her story will be understood not as an act of bitterness, but of self-preservation.

Her words, spoken calmly but with unmistakable resolve, echoed long after the interview ended: patience has its limits—and choosing yourself is sometimes the bravest decision of all.