It's sad when a broken marriage is turned into a soap opera," a close friend of the Kapoors says, referring to the crisis in Karisma's marital life.
An e-mail Karisma apparently sent her husband Sanjay Kapur has had a pandemonium effect in her life.
The long e-mail was reportedly the former actress agonising about how her husband betrayed her. But she cannot understand the media's curiosity about her marital break-up.
Who leaked the e-mail to the press? "It doesn't require Herculean sleuthing abilities to figure that out," remarks the family friend. "The timing of the e-mail and the ensuing restraining order preventing Karisma from taking the baby out of the country, cannot be two unrelated incidents. This is more than a coincidence."
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Sister Kareena speaks on her family's behalf, "We've been battered and cornered. What we need is prayers and compassion -- certainly not prying eyes trying to dissect every move we make."
Karisma is too distraught to talk. The unexpected end of her marriage and the ensuing efforts to intimidate her through legal means (once again the critical question: Who leaked out Karisma's deeply personal e-mail to the press?) has shattered her.
Karisma was strong enough to face the media, else she wouldn't have been able to make any categorical statements. Her lawyers have forbidden her from making any statement that could be used against her in court.
But Kareena vows to fight it out.
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