Mumbai, June 6: Bollywood actress Kubbra Sait, who gained recognition and accolades for her role as Kukoo on the first season of Sacred Games, Netflix’s popular show starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Saif Ali Khan in the lead. The actress opened up about enduring sexual abuse for 2 years as a teenager in her book Open Book: Not a quite a Memoir.
The Sultan actress wrote in her book that she was abused in her home and had to endure in order to save her family from being “destroyed”. Sharing her experience in the book Open Book: Not a quite a Memoir, Kubbra revealed that at the age of 17, she got embroiled in the greatest tragedy of her life.
She talked about a man who owned a certain restaurant in Bangalore and had grown closer to her family. A visit to his restaurant once a week became a routine. However, the experiences were not very pleasant to the actress as the man used to sexually abuse her and asked her to not call him “uncle”. The man also helped her family financially, wrote Kubbra.
Kubbra wrote in her book, “When Mumma sighed at the reprieve that cash provided, I sighed too. Just then, a hand slid to the back seat of the car where I was sitting and slid up my dress. X, who was no longer my uncle, smiled as he rubbed my thigh. I was numb in that moment… He started frequenting our home, and Mumma would laugh with and cook for him. In front of her, he would kiss my cheek and say, ‘Oh my Kubrati, you’re my favourite little one’. Although uncomfortable, I kept quiet.”
She further revealed that she told her mother about the entire incident and received an apology from her. Kubbra wrote in her book, “It was many years later that I told Mumma what had happened between X and me. In our home, under her nose. We were driving from Mumbai to Pune, and I think I seized the opportunity only because I felt she couldn’t run away from the conversation. I saw the tears stream down her face. An apology came from her recently. But again, I wasn’t waiting for it.”
