Kumar Sanu’s ex-wife claims he didn’t let her step out of house, refused her food during pregnancy; had an affair under her nose: ‘He then alleged I was cruel’

During a conversation with Film Window, she shared that it was she who made him a successful singer. “He is a great singer, but as a human being, it would be best to talk about him as less as possible. He was never ambitious. It was my dream to make him a singer, I pushed him. I helped Kumar Sanu become Kumar Sanu,” she said. 

The journey in Mumbai didn’t come without its own hardships. “We didn’t have any money or transportation when we came to Mumbai. It was completely zero. He used to wear a lungi at that time. He lies all the time that his family sent him to Mumbai. He should skip the question if he doesn’t want to answer, why lie? He keeps lying the whole day. Hence, all my three kids that it is high time, you have to talk. I used to push him out to go and struggle in Bombay. We used to sleep on the floor without a fan,” Rita revealed. 

She further added, “After Aashiqui’s success, he started earning a lot of money and that’s when he started changing. He became ill-mannered, he was never like that.”

The singer avoided communication with his ex-wife and their youngest son Jaan, even when their elder son Jiko was getting married. “Time and again, his love life has been discussed within media. I requested Sanu earlier to say something and put a stop to this when our elder son was getting engaged. He likes when his life is publicly discussed, be it negatively or in a positive light. He didn’t respond and blocked me and Jaan at that time. That was very insulting.”

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“I never thought that we should separate. I was a mother of two kids and my husband became very successful, beyond one’s thinking. I never stepped out of the house. I wasn’t allowed. I wasn’t allowed to go to the parlour or get waxed,” she shared. 

Opening up about their messy divorce, Rita said, “I lost my father when I was pregnant with Jaan. The limits of torture were crossed. Sanu took me to court on the basis of cruelty. I want to ask something, someone who got married in 1986, won so many awards, had a huge bungalow, so many luxuries, two kids and one on the way, what all I would have done that he achieved so much success? He became the legend and took me to court on cruelty ground?”

She continued, “He took me to court during my pregnancy. He even had an affair during that time, that came out today. And, he dragged me to court? I was very young at that time, I felt like my whole world crushed, and my family was shocked. He did such a huge party a year ago saying I was the reason behind his success.”

However, Rita could never speak to Kumar Sanu about the reason behind their divorce, and claimed she was tortured by his family during her third pregnancy. “I could never talk to him face to face about the divorce… Before dying, I want to know the reason directly from him. He used to make fun of me at court, came with those same people. When I was pregnant with Jaan, I was not even fed properly. I used to feel sick all the time,” she shared. 

“They went out once and locked the kitchen storage. I sent the watchman, got one kg rice and then cooked food for myself. They tortured me and I was pregnant, I wouldn’t do anything. They even stopped getting milk for my children, told the pediatrician that we won’t pay your money. It would be wrong to call them human beings,” she alleged. 

During an interview with Siddharth Kannan earlier, Kunickaa had revealed said that Kumar Sanu was in a very difficult relationship with his wife Rita at the time. “I was like a wife to him, I considered him like my husband. His wife smashed my car with a hockey stick. She would come outside my house and scream. But I understood her. She wanted money for her children, she wasn’t wrong. She said she didn’t want him back.” While talking about it again in the Bigg Boss house recently, she shared, “He was a married man, had separated from his wife, and we were in a live-in relationship. I was not married at that time, we were living in, but then he had an affair with another girl. I left him after he accepted cheating on me.”

Kumar Sanu tied the knot with Rita Bhattacharya in 1986, and they had three children – Jiko, Jassi, and Jaan Kumar Sanu. The couple got divorced in 1994 because of Sanu’s affair with Kunickaa Sadanand, after which Rita got the custody of their children.

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