Bigg Boss<\/a>, where she was often perceived as \u201cfake\u201d, Delnaaz said that people tend to misread kindness.\u201cPeople thought I was fake, but those who mattered knew who I am. Niceness is always taken as weakness, which is unfortunate. If people understood that kindness and compassion are strengths, the world would be a better place,\u201d she said.She also dismissed claims that the reality show is scripted. \u201cIt\u2019s a game, not a satsang. You can\u2019t say someone made you do something. You have to be fantastic in the show,\u201d she added.<\/p>\nOn facing her ex on national television<\/p>\n
Delnaaz admitted she was shocked when Rajeev Paul entered the Bigg Boss house.\u201cI didn\u2019t know he was coming. But the moment I saw him, I told myself to treat him like any other contestant. I had to maintain my dignity and my family\u2019s dignity,\u201d she said.She also suspected that the show may have been tapping into a \u201cdivorcee angle,\u201d but maintained that how she conducted herself was entirely her choice. <\/p>\n
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Delnaaz Irani opens up about not getting work: \u2018I\u2019m no Neena Gupta, but maybe someone will watch this and something will work out\u2019 <\/p>\n
\u2018I chose to rebuild myself\u2019<\/p>\n
Opening up about that phase, Delnaaz recalled how everything felt like it was falling apart, especially after losing her father in 2011.\u201cEverything felt like it was collapsing. But I believe even if you break, you have to pick up the pieces and rebuild your life,\u201d she said.Calling herself a \u201crebel\u201d in her own way, she added, \u201cI was the first in my family to marry outside the community and the first to get divorced.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u2018It was my journey, my choice\u2019<\/p>\n
Despite having family support, the actor emphasised that she chose to deal with everything on her own terms.\u201cIt was my journey, my choices. People may not understand the weight of it, but I chose peace and moved on,\u201d she said.Delnaaz Irani ended her 14-year marriage with Rajeev Paul in 2012, though the two had already separated in 2010 as their relationship was marked by a lack of love, respect and emotional disconnect. The actor has since moved on and is now in a long-term relationship with Percy Karkaria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Delnaaz Irani has opened up about her divorce, addressing assumptions around alimony and revealing that she walked away…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[9174,173247,173249,173245,173248,173253,173252,173250,173251,93,61,60,270,173246],"class_list":{"0":"post-390726","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-bigg-boss","9":"tag-delnaaz-irani","10":"tag-delnaaz-irani-dating-percy-kakaria","11":"tag-delnaaz-irani-divorce","12":"tag-delnaaz-irani-husband-rajeev-paul","13":"tag-delnaaz-irani-parsi-culture","14":"tag-delnaaz-irani-peace-over-alimony","15":"tag-delnaaz-irani-rajeev-paul-divorce","16":"tag-delnaaz-irani-rajeev-paul-divorce-alimony","17":"tag-entertainment","18":"tag-ie","19":"tag-ireland","20":"tag-movies","21":"tag-rajeev-paul-divorce"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Delnaaz Irani has opened up about her divorce, addressing assumptions around alimony and revealing that she walked away without claiming anything, choosing \u201cpeace over everything\u201d instead. Speaking about the financial aspect of her separation from ex-husband Rajeev Paul, Delnaaz dismissed common perceptions around alimony. The actor shared that coming from a middle-class Parsi family, divorce wasn\u2019t something she had grown up seeing. Delnaaz Irani has opened up about her divorce, addressing assumptions around alimony and revealing that she walked away without claiming anything, choosing \u201cpeace over everything\u201d instead.Speaking about the financial aspect of her separation from ex-husband Rajeev Paul, Delnaaz dismissed common perceptions around alimony.\u201cI never got anything. In fact, what was mine, I let go of it. It\u2019s not like I held on to anything,\u201d she told Hauterrfly, adding that the divorce was \u201cquite messy\u201d as one partner wanted it and the other didn\u2019t.\u201cBut I just let it be. I let it go because I chose my peace over everything,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n