BB Gandanghari revealed that the transition she went through from being a man to a woman was no joke. She said that many people did not understand and abandoned her, even some of her friends.

During his guest appearance on “Fast Talk with Boy Abunda” on Tuesday, BB said that it has been 16 years since he made his transition.

“It wasn’t easy. It’s the hardest,” pag-amin ni BB. “Contrary sa mga akala ng iba na everything was honeymoon, or everything was on a bed of roses. No, it was very difficult.”

“Many were lost. Many were just upset because part of my transition was actually to isolate myself. So many didn’t understand my isolation,” he continued.

To this day, some people still don’t understand what he’s going through.

“I understand. Because they don’t know what I’m going through. Maybe they just think, they just think that many are, ‘She just disappeared,’ because we don’t all know each other anymore. But on the contrary, it’s really part of the transition,” he explained.

However, Pops Fernandez was one of his friends who stayed and he thanked him.

“Pops was the one who really proved to be… we had our disagreements, but she understood all the way. We’ve been through a lot together,” said BB.

In an Instagram post, BB recalled January 16, 2009 when he returned to the Philippines and said “Rustom is dead.”

In 2016, BB’s dream of changing her gender to female in legal documents in America came true after a court in California approved her petition.

BB was first known as actor Rustom Padilla.