Former actress Somy Ali has been in the news for her recent remarks on Bollywood superstar Salman Khan and how she moved to Mumbai with the sole intention of 'marrying' Salman.
"It was 1991 and I was 16. I saw Maine Pyar Kiya, and I went, ‘I have to marry this guy!’ I told my mom that I am going to India tomorrow. She, of course, sent me off to my room, but I kept pleading that I have to go to India and marry this guy — Salman Khan," she told Bombay Times.
Somy spoke about convincing her parents to let her move to India as a teenager and how she ended up acting in films despite not really being interested in pursuing an acting career.
Speaking about childhood trauma, she said: "I grew up in a home in Pakistan, where I witnessed domestic violence. I have no qualms about admitting that a house help sexually abused me from the age of five to nine. Then, when I moved to the US at 11, I was a victim of rape, and later, domestic violence, too. For me, it was like taking all the bad that I had endured and building something good out of it, in the form of this organisation. See, you can be sorry for yourself, or make sure that whatever happened to you doesn’t happen to others."
Somy reportedly dated Salman for a few years, after which she returned to the US to pursue her education.
Somy is now an activist, working for women rights and victims of domestic and sexual abuse.
