Actress-host Kris Aquino turned to social media to honor her former manager, Dreamscape Entertainment head Deo Endrinal, who passed away on February 3. He was 60.

In a lengthy post on Instagram on Monday, Aquino revealed that they drifted apart when she left ABS-CBN and that she regrets not reaching out to Endrinal, admitting that her “wrong choice” prevented them from being each other’s support.

“For 16 years not a day passed that we didn’t communicate. I’m now so sorry for my failure to be the one to reach out because it hurt me when I failed to hear from him personally during my time of grief and the time my health started deteriorating. My wrong choice prevented us from being each other’s support system when we should’ve been there for each other,” Aquino said.

“I’m sharing this for others to see that pride in the end only leaves us with regret. Please know LA, I never ‘unloved’ you. And I am proud to declare — I’d never have become KRIS without the magical guidance of the creative genius that was DEO ENDRINAL,” Aquino wrote.

She also credited Endrinal for teaching her “the importance of honoring the job you’ve been given.”

“When I was 28, a newly single mom, and he became my sole manager he imposed a 12 midnight curfew on me,” Aquino recalled. “He said, ‘You have a morning show that airs LIVE at 11 AM, if you’re seen out until 3 AM, the staff in that restaurant may mga nanay at asawa — audience mo sila. Nasa studio ka ng 9 AM, meaning bumangon ka para maligo etc. at 7:30 — paano ka gagalangin ng audience mo kung hindi mo binibigyan ng importansya ang trabaho mo?'”

Aquino also said Endrinal “believed in me when many doubted,” admitting that she was the third choice to host “Game KNB.”

“He showed me the value of professionalism, respect, and generosity in sharing the credit with everyone involved in the production of my shows & movies. He instilled in me how to separate my personal problems from my duty to entertain (if only my dressing rooms had CCTV cameras — sometimes 5 mins before going live, my tears would still be rolling nonstop.) He fought for me when I asked to take an indefinite leave from SNN & the BUZZ during my mom’s last few weeks alive because he understood why I refused to leave her hospital room. He was a generous & thoughtful ninong to Bimb. He wrote the most beautiful messages in his cards, all of them I scanned so that I’d forever have copies of his heartfelt greetings,” she said.

Endrinal’s ashes will be brought to the ABS-CBN Chapel before the inurnment on Thursday, according to one of his closest friends, Kate Valenzuela.

A big party is also being organized for Endrinal this Wednesday.

Singers Martin Nievera, Erik Santos, Regine Velasquez, Ogie Alcasid and Angeline Quinto are set to perform each night until Friday.