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Jake hits back at Andi: Stop playing victim

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<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2017/entertainment/04/23/compo-2-2017-042217.jpg?ext=.jpg"/></figure></div><p>Jake Ejercito said he will not allow Andi Eigenmann to use him as a &quot;publicity pawn&quot; after his former girlfriend called him &quot;heartless&quot; for filing a joint custody petition over their 5-year-old daughter in a furious tirade on Twitter. </p><p>In a statement released through lawyer Ferdinand Topacio, obtained by ABS-CBN News&#x27; Mario Dumaual on Saturday, Ejercito responded to the actress&#x27; claims that he is trying to take away their daughter Ellie from her. </p><p>&quot;In spite of the slanderous claims made by some, I have relatively kept my piece since I filed the petition for joint custody of Ellie,&quot; said Ejercito. &quot;But in recent days, one in particular has been overgeneralizing to the point of dragging my entire family into the issue.&quot; </p><p>&quot;I now kindly request her to focus her tirades on me as I will not allow myself to be used as a publicity pawn against my family. Moreover, I will not let my family be incessantly used in someone&#x27;s apparent pursuit to play victim,&quot; he added. </p><blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-version="7" style="background:#FFF;border:0;border-radius:3px;box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15);margin:1px;max-width:658px;padding:0;width:calc(100% - 2px)"><div style="padding:8px"><div style="background:#F8F8F8;line-height:0;margin-top:40px;padding:62.40740740740741% 0;text-align:center;width:100%"><div style="background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAABGdBTUEAALGPC/xhBQAAAAFzUkdCAK7OHOkAAAAMUExURczMzPf399fX1+bm5mzY9AMAAADiSURBVDjLvZXbEsMgCES5/P8/t9FuRVCRmU73JWlzosgSIIZURCjo/ad+EQJJB4Hv8BFt+IDpQoCx1wjOSBFhh2XssxEIYn3ulI/6MNReE07UIWJEv8UEOWDS88LY97kqyTliJKKtuYBbruAyVh5wOHiXmpi5we58Ek028czwyuQdLKPG1Bkb4NnM+VeAnfHqn1k4+GPT6uGQcvu2h2OVuIf/gWUFyy8OWEpdyZSa3aVCqpVoVvzZZ2VTnn2wU8qzVjDDetO90GSy9mVLqtgYSy231MxrY6I2gGqjrTY0L8fxCxfCBbhWrsYYAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC);display:block;height:44px;margin:0 auto -44px;position:relative;top:-22px;width:44px"> </div></div><p style="color:#c9c8cd;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:17px;margin-bottom:0;margin-top:8px;overflow:hidden;padding:8px 0 7px;text-align:center;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:nowrap"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BML2hjKj1dE/" style="color:#c9c8cd;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:17px;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">A post shared by Jake Ejercito (@unoemilio)</a> on <time dateTime="2016-10-30T11:21:04+00:00" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:17px">Oct 30, 2016 at 4:21am PDT</time></p></div></blockquote><script async="" defer="" src="https://platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js" type="text/javascript"></script><p>He also demanded for Eigenmann to stop saying that his camp made no attempt to reach her about the petition. </p><p>&quot;My family and I reached to out to you numerous times and in countless of ways. Please stop making it seem otherwise and leave them out of this,&quot; he said. </p><p>&quot;Besides, this is about my rights as a father who is already making up for so much lost time. Please stop making it about you. I hope this will be the last time I will feel the need to comment on anything related to the petition as I seek for its speedy and amicable resolution.&quot;</p><p>&quot;Let us have faith in our justice system and allow the case to take its proper course,&quot; he concluded. </p><blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-version="7" style="background:#FFF;border:0;border-radius:3px;box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15);margin:1px;max-width:658px;padding:0;width:calc(100% - 2px)"><div style="padding:8px"><div style="background:#F8F8F8;line-height:0;margin-top:40px;padding:62.4537037037037% 0;text-align:center;width:100%"><div style="background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAABGdBTUEAALGPC/xhBQAAAAFzUkdCAK7OHOkAAAAMUExURczMzPf399fX1+bm5mzY9AMAAADiSURBVDjLvZXbEsMgCES5/P8/t9FuRVCRmU73JWlzosgSIIZURCjo/ad+EQJJB4Hv8BFt+IDpQoCx1wjOSBFhh2XssxEIYn3ulI/6MNReE07UIWJEv8UEOWDS88LY97kqyTliJKKtuYBbruAyVh5wOHiXmpi5we58Ek028czwyuQdLKPG1Bkb4NnM+VeAnfHqn1k4+GPT6uGQcvu2h2OVuIf/gWUFyy8OWEpdyZSa3aVCqpVoVvzZZ2VTnn2wU8qzVjDDetO90GSy9mVLqtgYSy231MxrY6I2gGqjrTY0L8fxCxfCBbhWrsYYAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC);display:block;height:44px;margin:0 auto -44px;position:relative;top:-22px;width:44px"> </div></div><p style="color:#c9c8cd;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:17px;margin-bottom:0;margin-top:8px;overflow:hidden;padding:8px 0 7px;text-align:center;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:nowrap"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BOaBGRnDapZ/" style="color:#c9c8cd;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:17px;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">A post shared by Jake Ejercito (@unoemilio)</a> on <time dateTime="2016-12-24T16:25:37+00:00" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:17px">Dec 24, 2016 at 8:25am PST</time></p></div></blockquote><script async="" defer="" src="https://platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js" type="text/javascript"></script><div><strong>ANDI&#x27;S REACTION</strong></div><p>Following the release of Ejercito&#x27;s statement, Eigenmann immediately took to Twitter, explaining why she felt hurt by the petition. </p><p>&quot;First of all Mr. Jake Ejercito, it was only you and not the rest of you family members that I was pertaining to,&quot; she said. </p><p>&quot;Second of all, I reached out to you, countless of times but your ego was just way more important to you than your child. If someone from your side did reach out, it has always been your sister. Just her. And NEVER you. Masyado ka kasing mataas.</p><p>&quot;I don&#x27;t care about your family to have to talk about them, I care about your true intentions for trying to take my child away from me.</p><blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-version="7" style="background:#FFF;border:0;border-radius:3px;box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15);margin:1px;max-width:658px;padding:0;width:calc(100% - 2px)"><div style="padding:8px"><div style="background:#F8F8F8;line-height:0;margin-top:40px;padding:37.31481481481482% 0;text-align:center;width:100%"><div style="background:url(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAACwAAAAsCAMAAAApWqozAAAABGdBTUEAALGPC/xhBQAAAAFzUkdCAK7OHOkAAAAMUExURczMzPf399fX1+bm5mzY9AMAAADiSURBVDjLvZXbEsMgCES5/P8/t9FuRVCRmU73JWlzosgSIIZURCjo/ad+EQJJB4Hv8BFt+IDpQoCx1wjOSBFhh2XssxEIYn3ulI/6MNReE07UIWJEv8UEOWDS88LY97kqyTliJKKtuYBbruAyVh5wOHiXmpi5we58Ek028czwyuQdLKPG1Bkb4NnM+VeAnfHqn1k4+GPT6uGQcvu2h2OVuIf/gWUFyy8OWEpdyZSa3aVCqpVoVvzZZ2VTnn2wU8qzVjDDetO90GSy9mVLqtgYSy231MxrY6I2gGqjrTY0L8fxCxfCBbhWrsYYAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC);display:block;height:44px;margin:0 auto -44px;position:relative;top:-22px;width:44px"> </div></div><p style="color:#c9c8cd;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:17px;margin-bottom:0;margin-top:8px;overflow:hidden;padding:8px 0 7px;text-align:center;text-overflow:ellipsis;white-space:nowrap"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/BS-ZwuGgsmH/" style="color:#c9c8cd;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;line-height:17px;text-decoration:none" target="_blank">A post shared by Andi Eigenmann (@andieigengirl)</a> on <time dateTime="2017-04-17T05:39:21+00:00" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:17px">Apr 16, 2017 at 10:39pm PDT</time></p></div></blockquote><script async="" defer="" src="https://platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js" type="text/javascript"></script><p>&quot;I was a victim. A victim of abuse by you, Jake. That caused me so much pain that I&#x27;ve already gone past. Stop accusing me of playing victim each time I voice out how I feel. I&#x27;m not a victim. I&#x27;m just no coward like you.</p><p>&quot;Your response has just proved me right. You really only do care when its your image at risk. Jake, I have an awesome life with the man I love and my beautiful daughter. I don&#x27;t need to play victim. I don&#x27;t need to make this about me.</p><p>&quot;The point here is that your intentions for wanting to suddenly take my child (that nobody is depriving you of) are questionable. Cause if you are thinking of her and not just yourself, you would&#x27;ve thought of just being a better person instead of complicating things.&quot; </p><p>&quot;If ever it seems I&#x27;m making this about me, maybe I am. Cause I&#x27;m the one who&#x27;s been working non stop to provide for my child and what you do is accuse me of neglect. </p><p>&quot;I&#x27;m the one you&#x27;re asking to spend money on a lawyer that I can&#x27;t afford. I&#x27;m the one who&#x27;s career you&#x27;ve been jeopardizing for my daughter, and you don&#x27;t even realise how this affects my child.</p><p>&quot;Lastly, I&#x27;m the one who decided to help myself be happy, and to you, it&#x27;s still wrong, even when in truth. YOU KNOW NOTHING. You don&#x27;t know me anymore.</p><p>&quot;This isn&#x27;t about who is right and who is wrong. I am aware of my faults. Always have been. I&#x27;ve come to realise that it doesn&#x27;t matter what good I do for my child. Everything will always just be wrong.</p><p>&quot;Jake, if I ever said things to make it seem like I was gonna take my child away from you. That was cause I was hurt, and sad, and I loved you.</p><p>&quot;Please realise that now that I&#x27;ve no feelings for you. I&#x27;ve grown to be mature enough to make decisions solely for the well being of my child.</p><p>&quot;And YOU are very much a part of what I want for her. What&#x27;s confusing is why you have to bring me down and insist that I&#x27;m unfit just for you to ask for that joint custody, that I very much want as well.</p><p>&quot;Burning down other people&#x27;s light to make yours shine brighter is such a stupid thing to do. I just thought you were better than that,&quot; she concluded. </p><p>Eigenmann gave birth to Ellie more than five years ago. It was only last October when Ejercito admitted being the biological father. </p>

<p>Following the release of her ex-boyfriend's statement, Eigenmann immediately took to Twitter again to respond to Ejercito.</p>

Following the release of her ex-boyfriend's statement, Eigenmann immediately took to Twitter again to respond to Ejercito.