On May 18, Nawazudidn Siddiqui's wife Aaliya announced that she sent a legal notice to her husband, demanding divorce and maintenance. Now, the budding film producer has given details to a leading daily as to how Nawaz disrespected her throughout their 11-year-long marriage, even in front of actors like Manoj Bajpayee. 

Aaliya told a leading daily that they have been living separately for more than four years, and that Nawaz makes excuses when she asks him to visit their children. “I have not told anything to the kids, though they are upset and keep asking me ‘papa kahan hai?’, ‘kahan shoot kar rahe hai?’ I keep telling them that he is shooting in New York, US but then for how many years should I do that?” she said. She had demanded full custody of the couple’s two children.

Aaliya added, “Despite him being at his office in Mumbai, he never comes and when I tell him to visit the kids, he is like I am busy, have people to meet. So I am forced to tell the kids that papa is busy with shoot.”

I am now learning to stand up & speak for myself, be strong, for the sake of my children

I have not done any wrong till date & therefore I am not worried

However I do not appreciate anyone harming my reputation or character to save someone else. Money can't buy truth.

— AaliyaSiddiqui2020 (@ASiddiqui2020) May 20, 2020

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She continued, narrating an incident involving actor Manoj Bajpayee, “A few celebrities have visited my house like Manoj Bajpayee. At that time also I was being humiliated by Nawaz.” She added, “I was cooking for Nawaz and tried to strike a conversation and he was like ‘tumko baat karna nahi aata, tum logon ke samne baat mat kiya karo’, these were his words.”

Aaliya said that there came a point, after being regularly put down, that she didn’t have the confidence to sustain conversations anymore. She said, “Even when he was going to meet the press and if I were to reach there coincidentally, then he would avoid me. I never got the respect that a wife deserves, never in front of others, never in person. From a rickshawala to a superstar – everyone respects their wife. I have been suffering this since years, one shouldn’t be insulted so much that the person starts feeling suffocated. All the time you are being made to realize that you are nothing, don’t know how to speak, to stand, no dressing sense, till what point can a person take all that? There was a point when I had lost all my confidence. I wondered if I would be able to do anything, I would fumble during conversations.”

(Source: Times Of India)