Shweta Tiwari claims to have been cheated multiple times, shares why she was uncertain about getting out of her abusive marriage with Raja Chaudhary

She added, “I don’t give them that power anymore. And suddenly they realise, ‘Oh she has left.’ So far, I have witnessed whosever lives I have left and walked away, are regretting.”

Shweta Tiwari, who married actor Raja Chaudhary in 1998, filed for a divorce in 2007 after having a troubled relationship characterised by Raja’s alcoholism and domestic violence. The actor claimed that Raja used to beat her up every day as well as turn up on the sets of her shows and misbehave with her.

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When asked what took her nine years to come out of the abusive relationship, Shweta said, “In my entire family, nobody had ever done a love marriage, I had. There was also caste problems that existed in our family, yet I had an inter-caste marriage. People had already started to taunt my mother and judging my marriage. On top of that, if I filed for a divorce, it would have been a whole different thing. At that point in time, it wasn’t that I was not financially independent, but it was more of an emotional thing. I was worried for my daughter not having a father while growing up. It was later that I realised that you can have a happy family only when you are mentally happy. It’s not a good upbringing for your child to be in a dysfunctional family. If two people can’t co-exist, it is better to part ways.”

In 2013, Shweta Tiwari tied the knot for the second time with actor Abhinav Kohli after dating him for three years. The couple together welcomed a son Reyansh Kohli. However, in 2019, the actor filed a complaint of domestic violence against Kohli alleging harassment by him towards her and her daughter from the first marriage. The couple separated in the same year.

Shweta Tiwari will be soon seen in the Ajay Devgn and Deepika Padukone starrer Singham Again.