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'We love you!' Kim gets message from 'ultimate idol' Heart over #BawalLumabas comeback

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<p>MANILA — Bouncing back from a dark chapter with no less than a new hit, Kim Chiu got the bonus of receiving a message from her &quot;ultimate idol,&quot; Heart Evangelista.</p><div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="https://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2020/entertainment/05/19/kim-chiu.jpg"/><figcaption>LEFT: Heart Evangelista and Kim Chiu pose together for the November 2019 issue of Metro.Style. RIGHT: Kim Chiu turns emotional in a behind-the-scenes video of her recording of of &#x27;Bawal Lumabas.&#x27; <em>Courtesy of Metro.Style/YouTube: Kim Chiu PH</em></figcaption></figure></div><p>Evangelista, as well as her husband, Sorsogon Gov. Chiz Escudero, were among the celebrities who cheered on Chiu on Tuesday, as she released the track &quot;Bawal Lumabas.&quot;</p><p>The song is drawn from a viral statement of Chiu in defense of her embattled home network ABS-CBN, which was then used to ridicule her for what she admitted was a poorly worded analogy with classroom rules.</p><ul class="op-related-articles">	<li><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/entertainment/05/19/20/bawallumabas-kim-chiu-follows-letter-senders-suggestion-collaborates-with-dj-squammy">#BawalLumabas: Kim Chiu follows letter sender&#x27;s suggestion; collaborates with DJ Squammy</a></li></ul><p>The incessant mudslinging, she said, was one of the &quot;lowest points in my life,&quot; and even led her to retreat from social media altogether.</p><p>When she returned on Monday, a recovered Chiu sought to turn a negative experience into something positive, with the release of her music collaboration with DJ Squammy, who made the viral &quot;remix&quot; of her statement, and Adrian Crisanto, whose open letter encouraging Chiu similarly went viral.</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">We love you <a href="https://twitter.com/prinsesachinita?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@prinsesachinita</a> ❤️ at the end of the day ... you can never put a person with a good heart down❤️ <a href="https://t.co/VsU9IYuHnn">https://t.co/VsU9IYuHnn</a></p>— LoveMarie O. Escudero (@heart021485) <a href="https://twitter.com/heart021485/status/1262563982855925762?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 19, 2020</a></blockquote><div><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charSet="utf-8" type="text/javascript"></script></div><p>&quot;This is how to handle and do it!&quot; Escudero tweeted Chiu on Monday, congratulating her. &quot;You just showed everybody how to turn lemons into lemonade! Kudos to you!&quot;</p><p>In her own tweet quoting Escudero, Evangelista then told Chiu: &quot;We love you! At the end of the day, you can never put a person with a good heart down.&quot;</p><p>Chiu thanked both, and called Evangelista her &quot;lodi forevs.&quot;</p><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="lv">Lodi forevs💗💗💗 <a href="https://t.co/6N7T8dy4et">https://t.co/6N7T8dy4et</a></p>— kim chiu (@prinsesachinita) <a href="https://twitter.com/prinsesachinita/status/1262655761882025985?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 19, 2020</a></blockquote><div><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charSet="utf-8" type="text/javascript"></script></div><p>Chiu has long identified Evangelista as one of her showbiz idols. In November 2019, she fulfilled her dream of working with Evangelista when they shared the cover of Metro.Style.</p>

<p>"At the end of the day, you can never put a person with a good heart down."</p>