BEAUTY QUEEN and actress Melanie Marquez denied filing a divorce case against her American husband for alleged domestic abuse.
This was announced by Melanie in a reunion of beauty title holders Thursday afternoon in a Makati restaurant.
According to Marquez, she is playing it by ear.
“I am not filing a divorce,” said the 1979 Miss International who had just arrived from the US recently.
Nene, Melanie’s pet name, clarified that she and husband Adam Lawyer might not be on good terms but they are still together although they live separately in the US.
She qualified that she and her two sons live with her in an apartment in Utah.
Marquez is in the country for a personal visit and to sit as judge in a beauty pageant in Palawan.
Among the beauty queens present during the get-together were actresses Jean Saburit, 1975 Miss Young Philippines and Azenith Briones 1975 Mutya ng Pilipinas Miss Photogenic with Malou Fernandez, 1976 Miss Young Philippines and Cynthia Nakpil,1976 Miss Maja Philippines.
Binibining Pilipinas contestant Cora Esguerra and fashion model Reggie Prada were also around during the reunion.