Mig Ayesa’s popularity skyrocketed when he placed third in the reality show Rock star: INXS. The actor shared, “It changed my life completely. I was actually working doing ‘We Will Rock You,’ playing the lead of that, in London in West End. And I auditioned for the show because I’m a huge INXS fan, their being Sydney boys as I’m a Sydney boy. They were the soundtrack to my youth so I decided to go for the show. And because of my success in the show, I moved to the States, I had a recording deal, got a green card. It introduced me to a worldwide audience, and also, the very important thing about this is that it introduced me back to the Filipino audience. So I got to come back many times and do some concerts, do some gigs, and work here in the Philippines, and I’m very proud of doing that.”
Mig also starred as Stacee Jaxx in the musical Rock of Ages, through which he was able to meet Tom Cruise who was cast in the same role as Mig was in the film adaptation of the musical.
“Have you ever fallen in love with a Filipina?” the host asked.
“Yes. I did have a girlfriend for six months who was Filipina, a Filipina-Australian. I did date a Filipina a couple of years ago. I think I possibly could’ve fallen in love with a Filipina today,” Mig admitted.
On second chances in love, the actor shared, “I have been through divorce, and it was probably the most traumatic experience in my life. (…) But I find myself now in a very, very new, very fresh relationship, and it’s allowing me to feel open again, and I’m feeling like it’s a beautiful thing. I feel like I’m actually letting myself go. And it’s this vulnerability, you let yourself open, you let people in. And that feeling is both very scary, and very exciting. I feel like I’m getting a second chance at life.”