Last week, TV actress Rida Isfahani appeared on YouTuber Nadir Ali’s podcast and made shocking statements about her allegedly abusive relationship with her ex-husband, Salman Shiekh, whom she had married in 2019. The latter reached out to Lens this week and shared his side of the story with proof of his rebuttal.
Speaking exclusively to this scribe, he initiated his statement with an oath that he was telling the truth with Allah as his witness, and that he would not attack her character in the manner that she has ‘defamed’ him.
“The most important thing is that I own my words,” the health and fitness instructor stressed.
He claimed that he had never raised his hand at her but that Rida Isfahani had physically and verbally abused him.
“I did not respond to it in kind because she is a woman and I’m a man. A man is always more powerful; a woman is not, and a man, as a protector of women, should never hit them,” he said.
I did not want to say anything but I eventually had to respond to the lies. I swear to Allah that these are all lies. The maximum I did was raise my hands in front of me in self-defense against her blows, which even our religion permits.
“The biggest lie she told was that I had assaulted her with a hot [clothes] iron. I have never attempted to physically harm her, I swear to Allah. The second biggest lie is that I had threatened to throw her off the third floor,” Salman Sheikh said.
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