Esha Verma has spoken about her father, Ashwin Verma, and her stepmother-actor, Rupali Ganguly, calling them “true bullies”. Taking to Instagram, Esha posted an emotional video in which she blamed her father for not protecting her during her growing-up years and mocking her mental health. She also said that both Rupali and Ashiwn abandoned, criticized, and even picked on her insecurities. (Also Read | Rupali Ganguly’s stepdaughter Esha claims actor hit her mom, calls dad ‘very abusive man’)
Esha says Rupali, Ashiwn never apologized to her.
Esha said, “I may be 26 now, but the pain and memories, they still stick. And even though things are in the past, it affects your future and present. I realized that from all of this, I stood up against my bullies. My true bullies. They chose not to hurt me, and pick on my insecurities. I wouldn’t feel good about myself. What hurt me the most was the response from my own father, how he didn’t protect me from the meanness. Comments that were happening, nor did he protect me in my entire life.”
Esha criticizes Rupali
Esha also blamed Rupali for building her “character and career off of lies and hurting someone else”. She added, “The wounds that you have healed open up again, especially when you have to see them in the media. I have avoided it, but sometimes it catches your attention. And then it hurts again and again and again, especially when you build your character and career off of lies and hurting someone else. And not once feel guilty about it. So I didn’t expect any response, nor did I expect any change, nor did I want anything in return. But taking accountability for your actions and then ignoring it like nothing ever happened, there you go. That’s your response to me for the last 24 years of my life.”
She continued, “I’m not encouraging anyone to pick sides and I’m not encouraging anyone to hurl any type of abusive language or negative language to either parties…I don’t have a PR team. I don’t have anybody. It was just me speaking up for me and my own story.”
Esha apologized to Ashwin, Rupali’s son.
Esha also spoke about Ashwin and Rupali’s son, Rudransh, apologizing to him and hoping that Ashiwn would be a better father to him. “I apologize if it hurts anyone in the process. Misinformation has been thrown into some of the articles, and I couldn’t take it back. I apologize truly if it hurt someone else especially to my little brother. I didn’t intend for any of that to happen and I have so much love for you. I hope papa is being the dad for you, that he couldn’t be for me and our sister. But the thing is that I have a different experience than both of you.”
Esha says she felt unsafe around Rupali
Esha blamed Ashwin for shutting her down. She also said she felt unsafe around Rupali. She added, “We all grew up as only children, and what hurts the most is that the three of us don’t even have a picture together to this day. That was our father’s responsibility to bring us together, but instead, he didn I don’t know if he is watching this or a message to me. But you have never apologized to me. I always shut me down. I tried to open up to you and you would never take my side. Growing up I told everyone about you, my friends and family. to be just like him when I grow up, a filmmaker. You never encouraged that either.”
Esha concluded her video by saying that “this was not revenge”. In her message for Ashwin, she said that had he “handled the situation properly, then it wouldn’t have gotten this far”. She also said that Ashwin and Rupali “deserve each other”.
Rupali married Ashwin in 2013. They have a son. Ashwin has two daughters from his previous marriage. 26-year-old Esha lives in New Jersey, USA. According to her, her mother and Ashwin got married in 1997 and separated in 2008.
