Philippines’ President Rodrigo Duterte who spoke to a crowd in Japan on Thursday, revealed that he used to be gay but cured himself with beautiful women.

According to 74-year-old controversial President, his critic Senator Antonio Trillanes IV was ‘similar’ to him because they were both gay. However President Rodrigo Duterte further revealed that he ‘cured’ himself with beautiful women and was no longer gay, when he married his first wife Elizabeth Zimmerman.

Speaking to the Filipino community in Japan, Duterte invited three attractive women standing at the side of the room to take empty seats at the front. He went on to say someone gay had told him that based on the senator’s movements, his critic Trillanes is homosexual, Rappler reported.

‘I said, “Are you sure?” They said, “You ask any gay person who sees Trillanes move, they’ll say he’s gay.” No wonder. Good thing Trillanes and I are similar. But I cured myself,’ he said.

He added: ‘When I began a relationship with Zimmerman, I said, this is it. I became a man again.’President Duterte was married to Elizabeth Zimmerman, 71, from 1973 until 2000 and they had two children together. During his outing in Japan, it was his long-term girlfriend Honeylet Avanceña, 49, who accompanied him to the event where he invited four women on stage to receive a kiss on the cheek.