The 'High Chef' host was seen in New York taking her canine for a stroll two days after her ex was attacked by a masked knifeman.
Padma Lakshmi was noticed out in public for the primary time since her ex husband Salman Rushdie was attacked by a masked knifeman and hospitalized for his accidents. The High Chef host stepped out within the Huge Apple for a lunch date alongside her pet pet on Sunday, August 14, as seen right here, simply hours after it was introduced Salman was on the mend.
In an announcement shared on Sunday, Salman’s son Zafar Rushdie mentioned “We're extraordinarily relieved that yesterday he was taken off the ventilator and extra oxygen and he was in a position to say a couple of phrases.” He added, “Although his life altering accidents are extreme, his regular feisty & defiant humorousness stays intact. We're so grateful to all of the viewers members who bravely leapt to his protection and administered first support together with the police and medical doctors who've cared for him and for the outpouring of affection and help from around the globe.”
Salman stays in crucial situation after a person recognized as Hadi Matar rushed the stage on the Chautauqua Establishment two days in the past and stabbed Salman 10 instances as he was about to ship a speech. The ‘Midnight’s Youngsters’ writer will proceed medical therapy for his accidents, which embody a broken liver and severed nerves in an arm and an eye fixed.
Although Hadi’s motive stays unclear, it must be famous Salman has had quite a few dying threats over time after Iran’s late supreme chief Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini set a $3 million reward for Salman’s dying in 1988. The bounty on the writer’s head got here after Salman printed his controversial novel The Satanic Verses, which many believed was blasphemous ideology.
Padma and Salman married in 2004 solely to divorce three years later. For the reason that break up, the exes have mentioned some disparaging phrases in opposition to one another of their respective memoirs, with Salman accusing Padma of ‘majestic narcissism’ and Padma saying Salman wanted “fixed consideration and intercourse.”