Singer-songwriter and actor Meesha Shafi, in an interview to a magazine, has elaborated more on her allegations of sexual harassment against Ali Zafar.
"The first time it happened, I didn't react and just left. I told my husband but also asked him to not react; I'm a public figure and so is he (Ali Zafar). My thought process was who I am and who he is and what that's going to lead to. Being ready to talk was far off because it had just happened. I buried it," Shafi recalled.
"It happened for the second time, late last year or last quarter of last year. And in both instances, we were not alone. The second time it happened in a jam room," she narrated.
Meesha Shafi and Ali Zafar were booked and billed to perform on the same concert, she said. When asked about why she took up the concert, after having gone through one episode of discomfort with Ali Zafar, she said, "It is my bread and butter, it was work coming my way."
"I was jamming with my band in Lahore and the organizers insisted that he was trying to get in touch. It started turning into a thing, and I was being seen as difficult or a diva, I got such feelers. I was avoiding him. I was asked to jam, figure out songs, scale and it happened while we were jamming," Shafi said.
"I have run into him, our pictures have been taken, at social gatherings etc because it's easier to tell yourself to move on in whatever way you can, you try," she added.
But the most important part of her detailed interview with the magazine was why she decided to speak about it now.
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