Sacred Games actress Kubbra Sait, in her new book Open Book: Not quite a Memoir has made the shocking claim of being sexually abused as a teenager by a family friend. The actress has written about the abuse she endured at a young age in order to protect her family from financial woes in her book, confessing that it was only years later that she was able to tell her mother what she endured.
Kubbra revealed it was only recently that her mother apologised to her and that the abuse went on for two and a half years by a family friend whom she calls X in her new book. The actress opened up about the first time he abused her and how she realised she was losing her virginity and what traumatised her.
According to an excerpt of the book in TOI, the actress was only seventeen when she was “embroiled in the greatest tragedy” when he first met a man who soon grew to be a family friend and confidante – and later, an abuser.
While they originally got closer when the Sait family would head to his restaurant for meals, and before long the actress’ mother confided in him about their financial woes. “Once, while talking to him about her financial woes, she broke down in tears. He held Mumma’s hand and said politely, ‘Mamadi main hain na? Fikar mat karo [Mamadi, I’m here, am I not? Don’t worry.].’ And just like that, he handed her a bundle wrapped in a newspaper that contained enough money for us to find our way out of trouble,” the excerpt read.
“When Mumma sighed at the reprieve that cash provided, I sighed too. Just then, a hand slid to the back seat of the car where I was sitting and slid up my dress. X, who was no longer my uncle, smiled as he rubbed my thigh. I was numb in that moment,” the actress wrote, adding, “He started frequenting our home, and Mumma would laugh with and cook for him. In front of her, he would kiss my cheek and say, ‘Oh my Kubrati, you’re my favourite little one’. Although uncomfortable, I kept quiet.’
Kubbra further explained how she was sexually abused for the first time, writing that the man ‘X’ took her to her hotel where he stroked her face before kissing her lips. She was shocked and confused. “The kiss grew. He convinced me it was what I wanted, that it would make me feel better. He kept repeating it until I felt deafened, and then he unbuckled his trousers. I was unsure of what exactly was happening, but I remember thinking, I am losing my virginity. It was a big deal, but it was also my shameful secret.”
The actress opined how X “grew like a virus” in their home and in the two and a half years he sexually abused her, he even went on to father another child and al the while convincing the young actress that he lover her and if she told her family to would destroy them.
