Maja Salvador once said that she does not give her past loves another shot. So, how come she “broke” her self-imposed rule and rekindled her romance with non-showbiz guy, Rambo Nuñez, last February? He is the same guy with whom Maja had a short-lived love affair nine years ago.
On Tonight with Boy Abunda a few nights back, Maja revealed that her relationship with Rambo only lasted for three months in 2010.
“Bagets pa kasi e,” she reasoned out. “I was only 21 years old then and he just graduated. S’yempre, ‘pag bagets, there are things that need to be prioritized. In my case, I needed to sacrifice love. (Then) after nine years, nung nag-post ako sa Instagram (ay) nung nagpadala nga s’ya ng flowers na may card saying thank you that I’m his Valentine after nine years.”
Her mom, she continued, called her right away asking if the guy who sent flowers was Rambo and counted back the years that she last talked to him “because when we parted ways, Rambo would go to Mama asking if he could talk to me but she didn’t tell that to me, until lately. Instead, Mama told Rambo, ‘Si Maja, ‘pag nagdesisyon, nakapagdesisyon na talaga ‘yan.’ She also explained that I’m the breadwinner and all. And Mama also said to him, ‘Anak, kung kayo talaga, kayo talaga.’”
Rambo and Maja accidentally met each other last year when the latter was looking for a basketball court in BGC for her nephews who visited from New York. It just so happened that the gym she enrolled for membership was also where Rambo was working out. He approached her and asked if she still had the same number. “So, I told my assistant Ella to give him my number. ’Pag ganun ang sinabi ko, ibig sabihin nun ayokong ibigay ang number ko at yung sa assistant ang ibibigay. Itong si Ella, bet na bet si Rambo so she gave him my number. And after Rambo sent a text message, Ella said, ‘Uy magkaka-lovelife ka na.’”
Maja recalled Rambo’s first text message was in August last year. She knew that Rambo felt her reply was not engaging “kasi nga may rule ako na walang balikan.”
It was in December when they started to exchange text messages often, and went out on dates, which according to Maja, “presumably as friends” the following month. “But you can feel that there’s this attraction; ramdam mo na mayroon na parang what if we didn’t break up before,” she said.
Thus, she had a change of heart and broke her rule, “probably because three months were not enough. That must have been also the reason why my past relationships didn’t last because I felt different in those three months. He really loves me and the whole family as well. Iba ‘yun.”
The Killer Bride lead star also shared that Rambo also tried acting before but he was not used to the long hours of work during tapings. “Mahiyain din because whenever I tell him to go to ABS, he would ask me why (laughs).”
While Maja is game about sharing her love story, she feels it’s not the right time to reveal her answer if and when Rambo proposes marriage.
“Hindi naman ako madamot about my lovelife but that kind of question, sana masagot ko ng sa kanya na lang. Besides if I answer now, he will already know so there’s no thrill anymore; baka pag nag-plano s’ya, hindi s’ya maiyak, hahahaha!”