Overview
- Neelima Azeem, speaking in a Zoom Letters To My Mom interview published across outlets Monday, rejected claims that she drinks and called the social media chatter toxic.
- She said she now feels compelled to speak so people do not change her facts or continue to defame her.
- Responding to judgments about her three marriages, she said she never married for riches and chose men she saw as talented and simple while building her own career.
- She recalled moving to Mumbai in 1990 with Rs 4,500 that she earned herself and said she managed without borrowing from family.
- The interview also featured a Mother’s Day message from her son Ishaan Khatter that moved her to tears.