Shilpa Shetty married businessman Raj Kundra in 2009, and they have 2 children now- son Viaan and daughter Samisha.
However, Raj Kundra was previously married to Kavita Kundra but the couple got divorced in 2006. They have a daughter together – Deelena Kundra.
Shilpa Shetty recently celebrated her 46th birthday and somehow, an old throwback interview of Kavita – accusing Shilpa of breaking her marriage with Raj Kundra went viral.
As per DNA report, Kavita had told News of The World – “I look at the pictures of them together and think, she’s with my husband, she’s living my life. While I was trying to put our marriage back together, he was talking constantly about Shilpa, as if it didn’t matter what happened to us because he had found someone better, cleverer and more famous than me. Now he has begun pestering me for a divorce. I asked him if he planned to marry someone else but he avoided the question.”
Now, a furious Raj Kundra has opened up in an explosive interview with Pinkvilla, and slammed his ex-wife saying she ‘brought out the worst in him’. Moreover, he also made a SHOCKING revelation; that his ex-wife Kavita had cheated on him with his sister Reena’s husband Vansh!
Raj told Pinkvilla – “She got paid thousands of pounds to do this interview by News of the World. She sold her soul during our divorce; she had to present her bank statements and it was clearly mentioned she had been paid by the newspaper to sell a so-called scandalous story. She is blaming a celebrity for her broken marriage when she herself was the reason the marriage broke down.”
Talking about his ex-wife’s affair with his brother-in-law, he revealed –
“She always brought out the worst in me. We were living in one house with my mum, dad and my sister and her husband had moved over from India to try and settle in the UK. She grew very close to my ex-brother in law spending more and more time with him especially when I was out on business trips. Many of my family and even my driver would say we sense something fishy between these two and I would never believe it. I gave my ex-wife the benefit of doubt.”
He further added – “My sister and her husband moved back to India because things were not comfortable living together in our house. The relationship that my wife and ex-brother in law Vansh were sharing, going out for work together meeting and sitting in the same room so often, etc. I guess my sister felt it best to move back. Again I refused to listen to anyone who tried to bring up this topic. I was super excited when I got the news she was pregnant. We had a baby girl and for the first 30 days at home, I started to notice she started spending more and more time in the bathroom evidently extended times from the usual quick 20-30 minutes she would be in the bathroom for hours at end. First I thought this was due to her recent delivery but the truth was something else.”
Raj then elaborated on how he found out about his ex-wife’s betrayal –
“One fine day, I got a call from my sister in India crying that she found a second phone in her husband’s cupboard which had texts from a UK number that spoke about everything from lovey-dovey messages to missing the time they spent and how he is heartbroken that he couldn’t be with her. This UK number replied saying you have moved and left me. I miss you, I want you to come back and many more graphic messages about their physical relationship. I immediately asked my sister to share the number and I ran a tap through a close friend to find out where the number’s nearest tower is, etc. I was shocked when he told me the phone number is connected to a tower near my house.
This raised doubts in my head so when Kavita had gone out shopping I started searching for this phone which I finally found in the bathroom hidden in her panty liner box. I turned it on and it was the same phone and number with multiple messages from Vansh they were speaking and texting daily. I recall how heartbroken I was and how I cried and cried thinking about what I had done to deserve this. I called and told my pregnant sister the phone number was Kavita’s second secret phone and that I was going to drop her at her house and that was the end for me she could decide what she wanted to do. She was also heavily pregnant and was very heartbroken.
She said she didn’t want to stay with a cheating husband so I told her to act as if nothing has happened and that Kavita was planning to go home for 30 days with the baby and during this time, I would fly to India and bring back my sister and kids. I got myself together and acted as if nothing had happened. I dropped Kavita at her house as she wanted to spend a month at her parents’ house after giving birth, a tradition, etc. that was the last time for me when I left her and my baby; somewhere inside Kavita she also knew something was a miss. It was painful saying goodbye to my 40-day-old baby.”
Raj then talked about the bitter divorce with Kavita –
“Later when I met Shilpa via some common friends and my ex heard online about us going out she increased her divorce demands. She even sold a story for tens of thousands of pounds to a UK tabloid claiming Shilpa ruined her marriage to the press. As part of the divorce agreement that ran into crores, Kavita requested I stay away from our baby and that when needed my daughter would know where to find me.
It was not fair on the child I agree but whenever we met we fought like cats and dogs she brought out the worst in me and we both agreed our daughter didn’t need to be exposed to this side of us both. I knew she was financially well provided for but I do miss my daughter and I am sure she doesn’t even know half of the story, god knows what all my ex-wife has fed her brain with. I tried to reach out to my daughter a few times but no one was willing to connect me. I should have tried harder but I guess I just moved on with my life in a new country.”
Raj Kundra said Shilpa Shetty had really supported him during that emotional time of his life. His sister Reena did try to make her marriage with Vansh work but since he continued keeping in touch with Kavita, she moved back with her daughters.