To celebrate the power of women, special guests, acid attack survivors were invited to Lock Upp's jail. Upon Payal Rohatgi and Karanvir Bohra's insistence, the women shared their tragic stories and how they fought for their dignity.
Upon hearing their stories, Nisha Rawal, Payal, Anjali Arora and Poonam Pandey had tears in their eyes. They lauded their special guests for their courage to fight back. After they left, Poonam had a major breakdown where she told Sara Khan that people don't accept her because of the things she's done in the past.
1/8:Poonam Pandey makes shocking revelations in Lock Upp: Beaten up by estranged husband, suffering brain hemorrhage to not being allowed to touch her phone
<p>Poonam Pandey has entered Kangana Ranaut's show Lock Upp and since then she has made many revelations from her real life. While speaking to host Kangana Ranaut, Poonam claimed that she is not controversial at all in her real life and just a ‘simple girl’ who has made mistakes. She also opined that given a chance she would press the reset button to undo things she did in the past. Here are some shocking revelations she made post stepping inside the show.</p>BCCL - Non Copyright
2/8:Estranged husband Sam Bombay would beat her
<p>In one of the recently aired episodes, Karanvir Bohra quizzed Poonam if she really loved her now estranged husband Sam. The Nasha actress then went on to reveal her ordeal, how he was controlling, his drinking habits and also would beat her. She said, “Nobody wants something like this to happen to them. Who likes to get beaten up. I had like four floors of house, private garden, private terrace and I had everything. I had a big fuc**ing house. If I am in one room, I am not allowed to be in that room, he would ask me why are you in that room. He would force me to be with him in the room he wanted. When I used to tell him that I wanted some time with myself and fresh air and wanted to go on the terrace, I wasn’t allowed.”</p>BCCL - Non Copyright
3/8:Having a brain hemorrhage
<p>She said, “I was not allowed to take my phone anywhere, and was not allowed to touch my phone in my own house. If I love my dog and sleep with them, he would say I love my dogs more than him. What kind of statement is that? Why should I get fuc** beaten up for loving my dogs. Is that a reason to get a brain hemorrhage? Because I have one.”</p>BCCL - Non Copyright
4/8:Tolerating domestic abuse
<p>“I’ve been trying for long, this has been happening for good four years. He didn’t just beat once, my brain injury (she points on the left side of her head) did not heal because he kept beating me on the same spot again and again. I would apply makeup, gloss and laugh in front of everyone, to hide it. I would act very cool in front of everyone,” she said in the episode adding, “If a person starts drinking from morning 10 am, till night and in the night there would be nobody around to save us. The staff would get scared, they would leave.”</p>BCCL - Non Copyright
5/8:Was young and naive
<p>In her exclusive interview with ETimes TV, Poonam had talked about facing domestic abuse and creating controversies to get noticed. She said, "I accept that I’ve done controversies as I wasn’t getting a job. I was also young and naïve so whoever told me to do this or that to benefit my career, I just blindly followed."</p>BCCL - Non Copyright
6/8:‘I don’t make adult films, I make erotica’
<p>On the premiere night, Poonam addressed the accusations of making and creating adult films. She said, “I don’t make adult films, I make erotica. If people think that I am making adult films, I am happy to accept the fact that what I am doing is my way of doing things. I am not denying any accusations you are putting on me. India is the land of Kamasutra. Whatever videos or pics I have taken, I haven’t broken any law. I respect my Government. Erotica is something very close to Kamasutra. It is very beautiful.”</p>BCCL - Non Copyright
7/8:On her ‘Nirvastra’ statement
<p>I was 18 year-old. People advised me to create controversies and it will make me a hit, get films. I was a teenager and I did it. I think I am a bit smart but mujhe akal ayi dheere se. I would 100% press reset button in my life. I have made many mistakes, which I shouldn’t have. I did them in desperation. I am misunderstood in life. There are many things, which I didn’t do or wouldn’t do myself. I did them because people told me to do so.</p>BCCL - Non Copyright
8/8:Making wrong decisions
<p>"Much later in life I realised that those decisions were wrong and if you want to succeed in life just work hard and you will get more work. I’ve realised that this 15 minute of fame is not at all important in life. Henceforth, I just want to work aur agar Kisi ko kuch dikhane hai karke toh apne kaam ke zariye karo."</p>BCCL - Non CopyrightPoonam said, "Can I be me? If I don't like something then why should I do thinking what would the audience be thinking about me. Whatever that happened with me at home (domestic abuse) that is okay. Other than the life that I have lived, I have just been judged, trolled and mostly judged by women not men because I am not a 'Bharatiya Naari.' I don't do things as per the Indian culture. I am treated like an alien. People have a certain reaction just by hearing the name Poonam Pandey. I feel very bad because today I am not someone's wife, daughter-in-law but I am someone's daughter. Just because I did a few things in my life, I have been totally blacklisted."
Sara consoles her by saying, "It isn't your fault. It's the people who think that way they are wrong." Poonam continues to cry and says, "I was called wrong for being beaten up, for being hospitalised, for not wearing appropriate clothes."
Sara hugs her and says, "You are not wrong and you don't have to think that way."
