‘I needed to bear the brunt as I used to be already seeing how – Firstpost

Khushboo Sundar, a veteran actress and politician within the South-Indian business, just lately opened up on her traumatic childhood expertise, the place she was sexually abused by her father.

“He was sexually abusive in direction of me, he was bodily abusive in direction of my brothers. Bodily extraordinarily abusive in direction of my brothers and my mom. He would beat them up with a belt, buckle, heels of a shoe. He would punch my mom. We’ve got seen all that. He would slam my mom to the wall. So now we have seen the person be so abusive,” recalled Khushboo whereas speaking to Vicky Lalwani.

Confessing why she was hesitant to discuss it, Khushboo shared “There was this worry instilled in me that if you’re going to discuss what he did, to anyone, then he would abuse them extra, beat them up extra. So I needed to bear the brunt as I used to be already seeing how he was beating up my brothers and my mom. I used to be very scared.”

Khushboo said that transferring to Chennai was a turning a part of her life because it gave her confidence. “After shifting to Chennai I obtained the arrogance to talk up. The primary time I spoke up was after I was 14,” revealed the Annaatthe actress.

Crediting hairdresser, Ubin for giving her braveness, she mentioned, “She in all probability observed his (father) touches and she or he had doubts as a result of she herself had 4 grown up kids. She was a single guardian herself so she in all probability suspected that this man might be not proper. She had seen how he (her father) would beat her up on (shoot) location and on coming into the (resort) room. She in all probability realised his physique language in direction of me was not proper. So she spoke to me, she requested me. That’s after I broke all the way down to her and she or he advised me that I’ve to talk to my mother.”

“However after two years after I began working within the south and have become absolutely unbiased. That’s after I determined that I’ve to talk up. That’s after I spoke about it to my mom and brothers about it and I discovered to say no to my dad. That’s when the issues grew. ‘How dare she say no?’ I discovered to say no a bit earlier than I spoke to my mom after I realised that it’s not regular, it’s sexual abuse,” she added.