Salman Rushdie demanded frequent sex: Padma Lakshmi

If the revelations given out by Indian American model and former wife of writer Salman Rushdie, Padma Lakshmi are to be believed-- it gives a rather dim picture of the popular author, reports the Zee News.

 

Lakshmi in her autobiography-- 'Love, Loss And What We Ate' has revealed that Rushdie needed to be consoled frequently for losing the Nobel Prize for Literature every year, according to a report in DNA.

 

She has also accused the author of being 'cold' and 'harsh'. In her book, she mentions that once when she declined Rushdie's sexual advances, he called her 'bad investment'.

 

She said that her former husband was insensitive towards her health issues which made sexual intercourse painful.

 

In the book, Lakshmi has also revealed that she was sexually abused as a child by her then step-father’s relative.

 

Here’s how she explained the ordeal:

 

“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. 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,” DNA quoted excerpts from the book in question.