He has offered no apologies for his brutal anti-drugs crackdown, which saw thousands of people killed when he was president of the South East Asian nation from 2016 to 2022, and mayor of Davao city before that.

In a heartfelt post on Instagram, the 66-year-old singer wrote that their bond was hard to explain but it "grew out of an understanding that we were different".

Chaka Chaka says Chicco and Attie had taken advantage of the fact that she was a novice in the music industry.