Dina Bonnevie Moves Fans to Tears as She Reveals How the Late Mother Lily Treated Her in the Past.

Dina Bonnevie recalls fond memories with the late Mother Lily

Dina Bonnevie reveals the screen name Mother Lily wanted for her.

Dina Bonnevie reveals she almost used a different screen name because of her closeness to the late Regal matriarch Lily Monteverde: “In fact, my name was supposed to be Marilyn Monteverde. Kaya lang sabi nga nila, ‘She won Miss Magnolia, first runner-up as Dina Bonnevie, so le’s just retain the name Dina Bonnevie.’ But I was almost Marilyn Monteverde, my screen name dapat.” 
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Dina Bonnevie is aware   of how close she was to the late Regal matriarch  Lily Monteverde .

In fact, the actress said, “I started with Regal… Mother would always say that she only had two original Regal babies — me and Alice [Dixson].”

That’s why Dina was shocked when she learned that the iconic movie producer had passed away.

In recent months, he said he has not heard from Mother Lily and her husband, Father  Remy Monteverde .

That’s why it was a surprise for her when she heard, from her husband, DV Savellano, about the consecutive deaths of Mother Lily and Father Remy.

Dina said, “Actually no, it was a surprise. I actually dreamed about her.

“And then I told my husband, ‘I dreamt about Mother?’ He said, ‘Whose Mother?’ ‘Mother Lily.’

“He said, ‘Hey, that’s dead.’ ‘Hey, is that a joke?’ So, no. ‘This or, it’s on Facebook.’

“Kasi hindi ko alam. I didn’t even know that father Remy passed away.”

Father Remy passed away on July 29, 2024, at the age of 86.

Read: Remy Monteverde, husband of Mother Lily, dies at 86

Six days later, Mother Lily passed away at the age of 84.

Read: Monteverde family mourns the passing of Mother Lily

Dina continued, “I just found out. I just said, ‘Is that true, maybe it’s fake news.’

“So I searched his name on Facebook, it said his name, Remy Monteverde. Then it said, ‘passed,’ right. ‘Huh, he’s dead, then there was a funeral on August 3.’

“And then, that day, it was like breaking news that Mother had passed away.

“No, nothing here yet [in the neighborhood], it’s like breaking news. It’s like he just died. So, that was Saturday, Sunday?

“Sunday. The next day, may taping ako, so wala pa naman dito. So I didn’t know where to go, and all.
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“Then I was taping Monday, Tuesday. Today is really my only free day, then Thursday, Friday I was still taping.”

PEP.ph (Philippine Entertainment Portal), ABS-CBN News, and GMA News crews spoke with Dina after she paid tribute to Mother Lily’s remains at Valencia Events Place, Quezon City, Wednesday night, August 7, 2024.

Father Remy and Mother Lily were left orphaned by their five children: Winston, Sherida [Meme], Roselle, Dondon, and Goldwin.

Photo/s: Arniel Serato

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DINA BONNEVIE: MOTHER LILY WAS REALLY LIKE A MOTHER TO ME

What is his fondest memory of Mother Lily?

Dina said, “Actually, it’s hard for me to also, it seems like it hasn’t sunk in yet because Mother was really like a mother to me.

“Because when I started, I know how many times she would spank me kasi palpak yung Tagalog ko.

“She would call me, ‘This snobby Bicolanan,’ that was her favorite dialogue with me.

“We would eat lugaw together, be in her kitchen together. She would be taking a bath and I’m inside her banyo waiting for her, while she’s taking a bath. That close.

“She would even call the masahista, ‘Masahiin mo si Dina dito.’ ‘Mother, why I am in your room?’ ‘You stay there.’

“Then sometimes when she gets jealous of Father, I’m her shield. ‘That’s Father.’ ‘Mother, you’re imagining, Father doesn’t do anything.’

“Then when they start fighting, I’m in the middle. I say, ‘Why am I here?’

“There was even a time na si Meme and Roselle, parang nagseselos sila kasi lagi akong nasa room ni Mother. And I would tell her, ‘Why am I always in your room? I wanna go out?’ ‘No, no.’

“I’m the most rebellious, actually, but she loves me so much because I tell her what’s in my head.

“But because of that, I eventually became so close to Meme and Roselle that I was, like, the third girl in her… well, I was like the older sister amongst her children.

“I’m just happy that I saw Meme and Roselle [on the hill] because it’s like seeing siblings that I missed for so long ago.”

Dina added: “In fact, my name was supposed to be Marilyn Monteverde.

“That’s why, they said, ‘She won Miss Magnolia, first runner-up as Dina Bonnevie, so let’s just retain the name Dina Bonnevie.’

“But I was almost Marilyn Monteverde, my screen name dapat.”

Read:  Roselle Monteverde, recalls Mother Lily’s last moments

DINA BONNEVIE ON WHAT SHE WILL MISS ABOUT MOTHER LILY

Dina also looked back on her travels with Mother Lily.

Sabi niya, “Mother and I would travel to the States, to Hong Kong.

“I will miss her sense of humor. She’s so funny and I really treated her like a mom.

“Even nung nag-asawa na ako and all, I would call her all the time telling her about my life, my problems, what I’m going through.

“He even talks to my kids, that’s how close Mother and I are.”

“I’m really one of her closest alaga.”

Dina also never forgets her first films at Regal Films,  Temptation Island  (1980) and  Katorse  (1980).

He said, “Well, of course  Katorse,  because that was my first solo starrer.

“Temptation Island was my first movie but Katorse is when I wore my magic kamison.

“Practically, all throughout the shooting of that, Mother would come to Ilocos to visit.

“She watched the whole pictorial, everything, lahat.

“Even the haircut, because I was 17 when I did  Katorse . Even the hairstyle I’m going to have so that I look young and all.

“But it wasn’t so far away who I was at that time, because I think I had my menstruation at 15. So, late bloomer din talaga ako. So yun.”