Poonam Pandey in the second episode of Kangana Ranaut’s reality show Lock Upp, when asked by Karanvir asked if she loved Sam Bombay when she was with him. She told him that he once beat her so much that it caused her brain hemorrhage. “Yes, I did and I don’t hate him right now, I just don’t like him, I dislike him.”
Poonam Pandey confessed her ex-husband Sam Bombay physically assaulted her. She was talking to co-contestant Karanvir Bohra on the new reality show Lock Upp. Poonam filed a case of domestic violence against Sam, just weeks after marrying him in 2020.
I was beaten up by my ex-husband – Poonam Pandey
Poonam added that he broke her heart and said, “Who likes to get beaten up. I had like four floors of house, private garden, private terrace, I had everything. I had a big 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, would force me to be with him in the room he wanted. When I would tell him that I wanted some time with myself, some fresh air, I wasn’t allowed. I was not allowed to take my phone anywhere, and was not allowed to touch my phone in my own house.”
Poona Pandey added, “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 f**** beaten up for loving my dogs? Is that a reason to get a brain haemorrhage? Because I have one.” Poonam also said that she had been living with it for four years, when Karanvir asked how long she had been putting up with it all. Karanvir then said, “Poonam, not just for you but anybody. The first time a man hits you is the time, it is time that it will happen again and again and again.”
Poonam Pandey added, “It was just for 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. I used to get hit on the same spot again and again.”