Days after Indian women's cricket team vice-captain Smriti Mandhana's wedding with Palash Muchhal was postponed and cheating rumours spread, Mary D'Costa—the woman he allegedly cheated on—has made some shocking revelations.
The cheating rumours came after the highly anticipated November 23 wedding was postponed due to Smriti's father, Shrinivas Mandhana, suddenly having "heart attack-like" symptoms, due to which he was rushed to the hospital.
The star batter also deleted all wedding-related posts from her Instagram account, making fans worried.
"I am not the choreographer, and I am not the person he cheated with," Mary D'Costa wrote in an Instagram post, after deleting all her other posts. She was earlier rumoured to be in charge of choreography at the couple's wedding.
D'Costa also pointed out that the chats leaked on Reddit happened between April 29 and May 30 this year, and that she had neither met him, nor got involved with him in any way.
"People have been asking: 'Why speak about this now?'. The truth is, I actually exposed him back in July, but no one really knew who he was at that time, so it went unnoticed," she said.
"I also wouldn't have had the guts to speak out about it again until the choreographer situation came out," D'Costa added.
Despite declaring that the chats were from earlier this year, and that she "adored" Smriti Mandhana and would "never hurt another woman like that", she later posted screenshots of the backlash she continued to receive in her Instagram DMs.
Meanwhile, Muchhal's cousin Neeti Tak defended him on Instagram, urging people not to judge him based on rumours.
“Palash is going through a critical condition today, you all should not judge Palash as wrong without knowing the truth,” she wrote in a post.
