MANILA — Actress Cristine Reyes opened up about her childhood with her adoptive family. 

"My mom, she was going through a phase in her life where she had to go to the States, leave all her kids, all of us to somebody else. Ako lang nahiwalay, I didn't know mga kapatid ko," Reyes told ABS-CBN News' Karen Davila in a vlog set for release on Thursday. 

"Hindi ko alam na kapatid ko siya (Ara Mina) nu'n," she added. 

Reyes said she was around 6 or 7 years old when her mother took her back.

"When my mom got me, hindi ako nagsasalita when I was a child," the actress shared. "Hindi naman ako 'yung hindi makasalita but I shut down when she got me."

"It was years, not just months, years na hindi ako nagsasalita noong bata ako. Nagsasalita na lang ako kapag nasa school ako, 'pag babalik ako ng bahay, quiet ulit ako, 'di ako nagsasalita. Kapag kakausapin ako ng mga tao sa bahay, magna-nod lang ako," she said.

Reyes said her adoptive family continued to show up whenever she needed them. 

"My adopted family was very supportive naman so they go [to school events] if my mom wouldn't make it," she said. "Showbiz naman, when I entered the business, ako lang 'yung walang bantay, but sometimes naman my adopted family would go."

Davila's full vlog with Reyes drops at 6 p.m.