Click to play videoManhattan: Actor Elizabeth Hurley’s famous spat with her in-laws has hogged almost as much media attention as her extravagant wedding with Indian businessman Arun Nayar.
For the first time after turning Mrs Nayar, Hurley broke her silence on the spat. She was speaking at a Breast Cancer Research Foundation benefit evening in Manhattan on Tuesday.
"Well, I don't think we've settled down into real life yet; the whole wedding took forever; the wedding itself took eight days; planning it took considerably longer; recovering from it- I'm still not sure I have,” she said.
But when you plan what was called the international wedding of the year, the exhaustion of the exercise comes as no surprise.
And Hurley seems still literally tied to some Indian customs.
"Well, I know it looks weird; it's not for anything lunatic. It's just because when you get married in India the priest puts on a symbolic tie and you're not allowed to take them off. They have to come off naturally and when they come off, you don't throw them in the bin, you let them fly away, and yeah, so mine's still on and it shows no sign of coming off which is apparently a good sign, so it's staying there."
So does Nayar wear one also? "His is still on. And frequently throughout the year, Indian people they have poojas (rituals) and stuff and they time them on again as a sign of friendship and respect and again you have to let them disintegrate. It's a very traditional thing,” said Hurley.
But the same fascination definitely doesn’t extend to her in-laws, Vinod Nayar and wife. Arun Nayar's father had publicly disowned his son and famous daughter-in-law for allegedly humiliating them during the Indian leg of the wedding.
"What it's really meant to me, I think, whenever anybody nasty takes time out of your life you just feel so incredibly grateful for the nice people in your life and you know my family are fantastic. I have people like Evelyn and her husband Leonard, who've become like - I always call them my American parents because they've been there for me for a very long time and Arun's mother, a German woman, is one of the nicest women in the world. I think Evelyn spent time with her at my wedding - she's fantastic. Arun has a fabulous brother; we've got a wonderful sister-in-law; we're so lucky for the good things that we kind of turn a blind eye to the bad things," said Hurley
With Liz Hurley issuing a public statement giving Vinod Nayar a piece of her mind hours after his comments and with reports that he will testify against the couple to help the law suit filed against them in India, it looks this family drama is far from over.
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