Asha Bhosle in her biography: ‘My husband was a sadist, I was four months pregnant and swallowed a bottle of sleeping tablets’

Legendary singer Asha Bhosle’s Asha Bhosle: A Life In Music was released by Amaryllis, an imprint of Manjul Publishing House, written by Ramya Sarma. And it has some shocking details about her personal life.

The biography talks about her marriage with Ganpatrao Bhosle, who was 20 years elder than Bhosle, and how it all culminated in sadness and sorrows. The singer has revealed in her biography, “The family was very conservative, and they could not handle a singing star for a daughter-in-law. My husband was short-tempered. Maybe he liked to inflict pain, maybe he was a sadist. But no one would hear about it outside. I gave him respect, never questioning what he did. I just did my duty as per Hindu dharma.”

Asha Bhosle also said, “On one occasion I felt I should kill myself. I was ill. I was four months pregnant and found myself in hospital where the conditions were so bad that I thought I had landed in hell. I was in mental agony. So, I swallowed a bottle of sleeping tablets. But the love I had for my unborn child was so strong that I did not die. I was dragged back to life, to living.”

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Asha Bhosle on Lata Mangeshkar

Asha Bhosle graced News18 Rising India’s SheShakti program in 2023 and spoke about her elder sister and Bharat Ratna Lata Mangeshkar . Remembering her sister, Bhosle revealed, “Both of us had a similar voice since childhood. Had I been singing in her style, nobody would have hired me. That’s why I decided to never copy Lata di."

On her granddaughter

Talking about her, the singer said, “She is much more talented than me.”