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Halili sues Hayden's ma, defers drug test

abs-cbnNEWS.com | 05/29/2009 10:46 PM

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A day after her emotional testimony at the Senate probe of the Hayden Kho sex videos, controversial actress Katrina Halili on Friday sued Kho's mother for accusing her of using drugs. Halili, however, failed to take an actual drug test at the state's anti-drug agency.

Halili first visited the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency headquarters in Quezon City to deny allegations that she influenced Kho to use drugs. The actress, who was accompanied by her lawyers and road manager Omar Bortijas, had a closed-door meeting with PDEA Director General Dionisio Santiago. The dialogue lasted for nearly an hour.

PDEA officials said they quizzed Halili on allegations that she and Kho had used narcotics before filming themselves having sex. The sex videos have spread virally on the Internet and sparked a Senate investigation.

“Our goal was to find out the source of the drugs but [Halili] said the allegations are not true,” said Santiago after emerging from the meeting.

He said Bortijas also refuted allegations that he peddled ecstasy to showbiz personalities.

In his Senate testimony on Thursday, Kho revealed that he and Halili were high on drugs during their sexual encounter that was caught on video. He said the supplier of the drugs was an influential person and known to many celebrities.

“Yes, this guy is very, very powerful, he knows the generals who can have me killed anytime,” Kho said.

He said the alleged supplier could also be the one who bought the sex video files for P2 million and had them distributed.

Halili did not take a drug test at the PDEA as she had to leave right away to file a libel case against Kho’s mother, Irene, at the Quezon City Hall of Justice. The actress promised to undergo a drug test next week using a gaschromatograph mass spectrometer, which will require a urine and hair sample.

Hayden and his mother did not appear at the PDEA office on Friday despite an invitation from Santiago. The two, however, promised to cooperate  in the investigation.

After her visit to PDEA, Halili went straight to the Quezon City Hall of Justice to file the libel case against Mrs. Kho. She said Mrs. Kho's claims are baseless and have damaged her reputation.

Halili thanked her fans who came out in droves to greet her outside the justice hall.

ABS-CBN tried to interview Mrs. Kho but she refused to comment, saying that she was in a middle of a family meeting.

Hayden ‘snubs’ NBI invite

Kho, who is at the center of the sex video scandal, failed to surface at the National Bureau of Investigation office in Manila after being invited by authorities to give his testimony over the sex scandal case.

According to his lawyer Herbert Hernane, Hayden refused to go to the NBI headquarters after receiving death threats.

Hernane instead submitted his client’s written testimony in relation to the case.

Dr. Mark Herbert Rosario, who was implicated to the spreading of the sex videos, also failed to appear at the NBI.