In 1981, while doing "Age Doesn't Matter" with fellow Regal babies, Maricel Soriano and Snooky Serna and the wacky Tito, Vic & Joey, she fell in love with Vic Sotto. The following years, she went into semi-retirement by focusing on her domestic life, but seen on television via the sitcom "2 + 2 = Gulo" with then husband, Vic Sotto and supported by Maricel Soriano and William Martinez, plus a young Herbert Bautista. In 1985, Viva Films assigned her the role of a young disturbed woman via "Tinik sa Dibdib" with Nora Aunor in the lead. She took home the FAMAS and FAP best-supporting actress statuettes.