Heart Evangelista posts touching message for the late Sen. Miriam Santiago

Actress Heart Evangelista posted a heartfelt message on her Instagram upon learning Sen. Miriam Defensor Santiago’s death on Thursday morning, Septenber 29.

She wrote…

“My mommy,my Tita,my Elizabeth Taylor,my lawyer, my mentor my everything… I don’t know what to say… I cannot say goodbye I just can’t… You put so much happiness and positivity in my life that I just can’t imagine I can’t call you ever again… Tita, I remember you telling me it will be like you just travelled to see your son who you just imagine is studying abroad… I might have to think like that for now…I love you my super hero… I will miss you my cleopatra… I will be the luckiest girl in history to have you as my 2nd mom. I love you so much!!!! Until we meet again my mommy m…”

Evangelista considers the late senator her  super hero, her Cleopatra, and her second mom.

I love you Tita… I can’t believe you’re gone… My #1 protector . Thank you for being my hero…I love you so so much…I don’t know what to do

A photo posted by Love Marie Ongpauco Escudero (@iamhearte) on Sep 28, 2016 at 8:05pm PDT

You would read vogue for me and in return I would study your law books… You made me study the “serious Einstein subjects” and bring me to meet the “kings and queens” the way you would say it… You showed me so much of the world, put on my slippers when I had a migraine and fed me the best lobsters in bed…i would sleep over for weekends and stay up till 2am and we would talk about cleopatra and grace Kelly… Your big hair and workout clothes, your lambing tone,your sweetness and kisses… When this photo was taken a halo appeared on my screen… Indeed you were and will always be my guardian angel…

A photo posted by Love Marie Ongpauco Escudero (@iamhearte) on Sep 28, 2016 at 8:26pm PDT

It was the late Senator who was instrumental to Heart and husband Senator Chiz Escudero’s love story. She introduced Heart to Chiz after the former broke up with her boyfriend, Daniel Matsunaga. She told Heart to go out and date single men.