Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi has taken out her knifes.
The 45-year-old is blasting her ex-husband, Salman Rushdie, by insinuating he was cold and jealous in her new explosive autobiography Love, Loss and What We Ate.
After meeting in 1999 while he was still married to his third wife, Salman and Padma tied the knot in 2004.
Known for writing the controversial 1988 novel The Satanic Verses – for which he received death threats – Rushdie allegedly showed contempt for Lakshmi when she appeared on the cover of Newsweek.
“The only time Newsweek put me on their cover was when someone was trying to put a bullet in my head,” he grudgingly said to his wife.
Things intensified as Padma’s career began to thrive in the public eye, which she says troubled him greatly.
“I just wanted my own identity,” the former model revealed. “I was making the transition out of one stage of my life and into another. But in order to do that, it required that I wasn’t everywhere that he needed me to be.”
Lakshmi then developed endometriosis, a painful condition affecting the lining of the uterus, and Rushdie showed no compassion. When she refused to have sex because of excruciating pain, he replied: “How convenient.”
She eventually had surgery to remedy the illness. The day after she returned from the hospital with two stents in her kidney, Rushdie left town on a business trip rather than help her recuperate. “The show must go on,” he uttered on his way out.
She filed for divorce shortly after in 2007.
Padma now has a six-year-old daughter from her relationship with venture capitalist Adam Dell.
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