MANILA, Philippines?The two suspected car thieves who stabbed Pilar Pilapil and left her for dead on a grassy lot in Antipolo City were apparently not into the local showbiz scene, and their attack on the actress and former beauty queen was a "spontaneous, random criminal act," police said Saturday.

The knife-wielding men did not believe her when she introduced herself as the beauty queen-turned-actress.

Chief Superintendent Samuel Pagdilao, chief of the Philippine National police?s Criminal Investigation and Detection Group, said this was among the information that Pilapil gave a team of special police investigators tasked to look into the incident.

According to Pagdilao, Pilapil was lucid when members of the Special Investigation Task Group Pilar visited her Saturday at a private medical facility in Pasig City.

?Fortunately, Ms. Pilar Pilapil was able to regain consciousness and is now out of danger,? Pagdilao told the Philippine Daily Inquirer. ?She gave us good leads that would certainly help us solve this crime.?

Pagdilao accompanied Vice President Jejomar Binay, who checked on Pilapil?s condition at the hospital.

Senior Superintendent Joel Coronel, head of the task group, said Pilapil introduced herself as the actress in a bid to negotiate her and her companion?s safety with their attackers.

Coronel said she repeatedly begged the men to let them go and just take their money and vehicle.

?Kunin na ninyo ang aming pera at sasakyan. Kunin na ninyo lahat, pero huwag nyo kaming sasaktan (Just take our money and vehicle. Take everything, but please don?t hurt us),? Coronel quoted Pilapil as saying.

She told one of the perpetrators: ?I?m a celebrity. Maraming nakakakilala sa akin (Many people know me).?

?Apparently, those two men did not recognize her and did not believe her when the victim said she was the actress Pilar Pilapil,? Pagdilao added.

As she pleaded with them, Coronel said, the men shouted at Pilapil and threatened to harm her.

Then, one of them suddenly grabbed her and stabbed the actress in different parts of the body, he said.

?The victim said the men were continuously shouting at her while she was pleading for mercy. Pilar Pilapil said she tried to resist the blows, but she could not block them,? he related.

Despite the multiple knife wounds, Coronel said the actress was able to give the description of her attackers to CIDG investigators.

He said copies of the sketches of the suspected car thieves would be immediately distributed to police units and other law enforcement agencies to arrest the criminals and locate Rosel Jakosalem Penas, Pilapil?s missing companion.

Contrary to earlier media reports, he said Penas was not Pilapil?s driver, but a niece of the actress? husband.

Coronel said Penas was on a summer vacation in the country and had just arrived from abroad.

According to Coronel, this was how Pilapil narrated her harrowing experience:

She and her husband met with Penas at the Robinson?s Galleria mall in Ortigas at around 9 p.m. Thursday. They then left him there as they drove to Marikina Riverbanks Center in Marikina City to meet some of Penas? friends.

Penas was behind the steering wheel and was seated beside her on the front passenger seat.

As the vehicle slowed down, two men came out of nowhere, opened the vehicle?s rear doors and got in.

At knifepoint, they dragged Pilapil to the back of the vehicle while ordering Penas to drive toward Antipolo.

Pagdilao said it was likely that both men did not know how to drive as they did not commandeer the vehicle as car thieves usually do.

Coronel said the police were treating the incident as a possible case of carnapping, plain robbery or abduction.

He said the missing vehicle was owned by a private company and was described by Pilapil as a ?late model Kia wagon, possibly a Kia Carnival or Caravan.?

Citing the results of their initial investigation, he said there was no indication that the incident was planned or premeditated.

?This is a spontaneous, random criminal act,? Coronel said.