Television actress Urfi Javed, who was the first eliminated contestant from Bigg Boss OTT, has recently said that she had no support from her family when her photographs were uploaded on an adult site. The actress said that she was blamed and everybody believed that she was secretly a porn star.
In a recent interview, Urfi said that her father physically and mentally abused her after the incident. The actress added, “I was not even in college, I was in the eleventh standard. It was tough because I didn’t have my family’s support. My family blamed me, I was victim-blamed. My relatives went so far as to call me a porn star. They wanted me to check my bank account, expecting to find crores. My father was physically and mentally abusive, and that torture lasted two years. I couldn’t remember my own name; people said such nasty things about me. No girl should go through what I went through.”
Urfi said that after this incident, she realized that she has her own voice. “Even when my father victim-blamed me, I was not allowed to say anything, all I could do was suffer their torture, I was always told that girls don’t have a voice, that only men are allowed to make decisions. I didn’t know I had a voice, but when I left my house, it took me so long just to survive. Now, my personality is coming out and I’m not going to stop.”
Earlier last year, in an interview with a leading daily, Urfi Javed had opened up about what happened after she ran away from home.”I then ran away from the house with my two sisters, leaving behind my mother and two other siblings, and stayed in a park for a week in Delhi. Then we three started looking for jobs. I thankfully got a job in a call center. Soon after that, my father got remarried and then the whole responsibility of the family came on to me and my sisters’ shoulders,” she added.
