Actor and director Neena Gupta is known to be frank when it comes to her personal life. And once again, she got candid in an interview with Bollywood Bubble as she opened up her past relationship with former West Indies cricketer Viv Richards, and the mutual respect the pair and their daughter Masaba Gupta have for each other.
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In the interview, Neena said that she would never manipulate her daughter’s opinions about her father since she does not have bad opinions herself. She said, “I had Masaba because I loved Vivian. And if you love somebody, you can’t hate somebody like that. You may not live or do things together, woh dheere dheere pata chalta hai (you get to know that slowly). But you can’t hate. Aisa toh nahi hota ki aaj love hai toh kal suddenly you hate (You can’t love someone one and hate them the next). And how can you put this thing in your daughter’s mind about her father? I don’t want to and don’t feel it. Why should I poison her thoughts? I have respect for him, he respects me and so, she has respect for both of us. It’s a very simple thing”.
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Neena also had a different take on love. She said, “As far as love is concerned, I have come to a conclusion. What I have understood is that real love exists only between parents and children”. After Neena and Richards split, Neena raised her daughter as a single mother. However, Masaba spent a lot of time with her father growing up.
