Padma Lakshmi, the Indian born actress, model, author and chef has made some startling revelations about her life in the recently released memoir, “Love, Loss And What We Ate”. She not only disclosed about her troubled relationship with writer Salman Rushdie but also talked about how she was physically molested by her stepfather when she with her mother lived in a small apartment in Queens and she had to live in the room with her stepfather’s relative as “a state of affair that, to people like us, who were used to living far too many to an apartment in India, seemed relatively normal.”
This is what Padma Lakshmi wrote in the memoir, “One night, I woke up to his hand in my underpants. He took my hand and placed it inside his briefs. I don’t know how many times it happened before, since I suspect I slept through some incidents. Once you take a girl’s innocence, you can never get it back.”
She further wrote, “What I remember more is telling my mother what happened and her believing me and then she and I telling someone else that it happened and that person not believing me. And then the next week, I was sent to India. In retrospect however, he should have been the one to go. Years later, in tears, my mother would acknowledge this grave mistake.”