Rupali Ganguly's stepdaughter, Esha Verma, has been lashing out at the Anupamaa actress since days now. It all started when a four-year-old post of Esha resurfaced on the internet and soon went viral. In the post, Esha, who is Rupali's husband Ashwin Verma's daughter from his previous marriage, claimed that the actress was a 'psychotic and abusive woman'. She levelled several allegations after her father as well as Rupali. And now, Esha Verma has shared an emotional video on Instagram wherein she accuses her father Ashwin of “mocking” her mental health struggles, among other things.
Esha Verma issues statement
In the video, Esha Verma says, “I may be 26 now, but the pain and memories still stick, affecting both my future and present. Through all of this, I have had to stand up against my bullies. It wasn’t just me who was hurt; my mother was, too. They didn’t acknowledge me. They chose to abandon me, criticise me, and pick on my insecurities. They never apologised to me, either publicly or personally. What hurt the most was my own father’s response — he chose to mock mental health. He didn’t shield me from the harsh comments I faced, nor did he protect me throughout my life.”
Esha says that old wounds resurfaced after she encountered hurtful comments in the media. Talking about Rupali, she says, “It hurts especially when you have built your career out of lies and hurting someone else. And you don’t feel guilty about it. Didn’t expect any response or any return. Not taking accountability for your actions and ignoring it like nothing happened. That’s your response to me for the last 24 years of my life.”
Esha reveals that she isn’t represented by any PR team and is putting out her story as it is. “I don’t have a PR team, I am speaking for myself and sharing my story,” she says.
Esha offers an apology to her half-brother Rudrash and says, “I apologise if I hurt someone, especially my little brother. I didn’t intend anything like that to happen and I have so much love for you. I hope Papa is the dad to you, that he couldn’t be for me and my sister. But the thing is that I had a different experience. We all grew up as single children, we don’t even have a photo together to this day. That was our father’s responsibility to bring us three together.”
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Esha concludes the video with a message for her father saying, “A message to my Papa, I am sorry this has to go this far but you never apologised to me ever. Nor did you listen, you always shut me down and I always felt unsafe around her (Rupali). I tried to open up to you and you never took my side.” She went on to say, “You still told mom you loved her. Even after all of this. Why did you lie to us? This wasn’t for revenge. This was for a daughter to stand up for herself.”
Rupali Ganguly’s stepdaughter’s claims
Esha Verma is Rupali Ganguly's husband, Ashwin Verma and his ex-wife Sapna Verma’s daughter. Ashwin and Sapna got married in 1997 and separated in 2008. Esha claimed that Rupali has ‘physically, mentally, verbally, and emotionally abused’ her and her mother.
Esha, who is 26 years old residing in the US, had exclusively told Times Now/ Telly Talk India in an interview, "That comment, which is now going viral, was posted by me almost four years ago. I was just 22 years old back then and very young. I wrote that under a video of Rupali's in which she had said that she was in a happy marriage with her best friend. In reality, she was having an affair with my father when I was just two years old in 2000. My parents got divorced in 2008 so you can imagine. Whatever she claims is definitely wrong because those timelines and those dates are visible proof."