Mithai fame Aashish Bhardwaj reacts to allegations made by his wife Kajal; says “She scratched my face, asked for Rs 75 lakh to get a divorce”
Actress Kajal Chonkar recently accused her actor-husband Aashish Bhardwaj of physical abuse, mental torture, abandonment, and many other things. Now in a recent interview, Aashish talked about it and shared his side of the story in detail.
He said, “First of all, all these are baseless allegations. My lawyers have sent her a reply. The truth is very big. Whatever she is saying, is completely false. I am not denying the marriage. We did get married and I am not living with her right now. But the reason why I am not staying with her is very strong. She has been torturing me physically. She was not letting me go to work. Whenever I used to go to work or auditions, she would create a situation in which I won’t be able to go. She has scratched my face. I had auditions and she scratched my whole face.”
He added, “I did a show, came to this city, waited for four years, working hard every day, every night. I did small roles in two shows and in my third show I got the main lead. I have stopped working now. If you ask anybody, I am not even giving auditions. I wasn’t allowed to. Whenever I used to get calls for work or go out, she would threaten me with a police case. It is a personal matter of the family and she is making it public like this. This is not right.”
Talking about the allegations made by Kajal of forcing her to get an abortion, he said, “I got married to her. For abortion, she went alone. I went with her for check-ups but I never went with her for the abortion. It was her agreement first. I got married to her before and then registered the marriage because of her. I convinced my entire family for her and now she is doing this to me!”
When asked about Kajal’s allegations where she said the marriage date was falsely written to negate her FIR allegations, Aashish replied, “No, ma’am. She made it very dramatic. You think, why would anyone cut his thumb maang bharne ke liye? I cut my thumb and got married at a temple with proper marriage rituals. She kept insisting that I make our marriage public. I am from UP and belong to a joint family. At that time we had decided to give our careers 2-3 years as both of us were very new in the industry. But the moment I got Mithai’s offer, I don’t know what insecurity crept into her head and she kept forcing me to make it public. I told her that I need to go home to tell my parents so that they will accept her respectfully. If I am getting married to someone, I have to see if she gets equal respect. Main bhagake thodi leke ja raha hu. For her satisfaction, I got married to her. I don’t know why she said all this. The marriage certificate she posted on Instagram, is the certificate to verify the date, names. The registrar and our signatures are there.”