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- Published: April 13, 2022 14:13
New Delhi: On the popular reality TV show Lock Upp, several contestants called Mandana Karimi a ‘gold digger’, after the latter had opened up about her past in the show.
On being called a gold digger by some of her fellow contenders, Karimi reacted and said, “I may look fancy but I am spoiling myself with my money, what I have earned. As far as my dating is concerned, yes, I have dated powerful men. But it is not for their money. It is on record, I have broken up with a powerful man because it wasn’t worth my time or life.
“In fact, many times my things have gone. They have ruined my name and my life. Just like my ex. I know what I have done. I know who I have loved and with whom I have been in a relationship and how it was”, she added.
Karimi reacted on the show when her fellow inmate Ali Merchant said on camera, “I am not directly calling her a gold digger. But she has similar traits of a gold digger. She looks for a prey, earns their sympathy, gets close, makes them hear her sob story, and then befriends them like she tried to do with Zeeshan and me”.
Previously, Karimi had talked about an abortion she had to go through on the Kangana Ranaut hosted Lock Upp. Karimi revealed that after getting a divorce from Gaurav Gupta, she was in a relationship with a director and was also pregnant.
“The time that I was struggling with my whole situation…my separation, I did have a secret relationship. My relationship was with a very well-known director who talks about women’s rights. He’s an idol to many people. We planned a pregnancy…and when it happened, he completely backed off and his reason was that he did not think he was emotionally ready to become a father again. He already has a child”, she had said.
“Suddenly he was like ‘I did not believe you could get pregnant so easily at the age of 33”, she added.
“I had to take a decision because I come from a broken home. I took the step and I did have an abortion. I do not want to name that person because he does not deserve to be known by his name. And it just destroyed so much for me”, she had stated.