Rupali Ganguly's stepdaughter claims actor 'physically, mentally abused' her mother

Esha Verma, Rupali Ganguly's stepdaughter, has made new claims against the Anupamaa actor.

In Short

• Rupali Ganguly's stepdaughter Esha Verma has made fresh allegations against the actor
• She claimed the actor abused her mother 'mentally and physically'
• Esha said that she and her mother went through a lot of trauma

Esha Verma, the stepdaughter of Rupali Ganguly, made serious allegations against the Anupamaa star, claiming she had an affair with her father while he was still married to Esha’s mother, Sapna. The controversy began when an old post from 2020, which Esha had later deleted, went viral on social media on Sunday, November 3.

In an interview with Bollywood Bubble, Esha shared that after her four-year-old post went viral, her father defended Rupali and supported her. Esha said, “I don’t know what Rupali and Ashwin will now say further to these allegations and comments. I know my father has said something on X. He said that Rupali was not involved, and that is the biggest lie because Rupali was the one who came to my house in New Jersey and slept on my mother’s bed—the bed that my father and mother shared. She has done so much, physically, mentally, verbally, and emotionally, abusing me and my mom.”

Esha further emphasised that she was a child during that time and would never lie about the experiences she went through. "It was a lot of trauma that both my mom and I had to endure. We suffered immensely, and we didn't have the same exposure that she did," she added.

Esha also shared how her mother endured suffering, drawing a comparison to the character Anupamaa, which Rupali portrayed on-screen. She believes her mother was in a similar situation to Anupamaa when Rupali and Ashwin had an affair, much like the storyline between Vanraj and Kavya on the show.

“First things first, it’s both parties’ fault for an affair. But I will say if Rupali has claimed the woman that she is, the women’s advocate for women’s rights, an irony from her character in Anupamaa. That she was a wife who got cheated by her husband, who had an affair and whatnot—that is the story of my mother. She (Rupali Ganguly) was Kavya, I don’t watch the show but that’s what I have heard. And she comes into our lives. She has made my father, like she told my father to give the divorce papers and this happened twice to my mother. And my father would run off to India to be with her. And regardless of that, having an affair while being married is completely wrong,” Esha said.

Esha Verma, aged 26, is the biological daughter of Ashwin K. Verma and Sapna K. Verma, residing in New Jersey, USA. Her father, Ashwin, married Rupali Ganguly in 2013, after having been married twice before. Rupali and Ashwin have a son together, Rudransh.