Neena Gupta dated the famous former cricketer Sir Vivian Richards at one point of time.
Their relationship first came into limelight when the duo was spotted outside a club in the city of Kolkata.
Neena and Vivian were denied entry into the club for not wearing appropriate shoes suitable for the occasion inside the club.Neena and West Indies cricketer Sir Vivian Richards' affair became the talking point when they were denied entry in a Calcutta Club for not wearing appropriate footwear.
Neena moved to Mumbai along with her daughter Masaba when Vivian later separated from her and wedded another woman named Miriam.Neena Gupta's live-in relationship with the cricketer became an open secret and the two had a child together in 1989, whom we all know as fashion designer Masaba Gupta today.
She was in a highly publicised relationship with former West Indian cricketer Vivian Richards in the 1980s, with whom she has a daughter, Masaba Gupta, a designer. Neena never married Richards and chose to raise Masaba as a single-mother in India. It was at that time she chose to move the family from New Delhi to Mumbai.
Masaba never knew the identity of her father and Neena recalled her experience of the romantic life with Vivian at that point of time.
Neena says that it's not easy to get in touch with Vivian who is ever busy with his own life and does not care much for his daughter Masaba.I told her how her father is not a family man and how he was like this and this. In the beginning, she would feel bad that Vivian was not in touch with her till the age of about 20, but then he got in touch. His problem also is that he is not net savvy and so, it is very difficult to get in touch with him. Sometimes, he would call her on her birthday and sometimes, he would not call for even three years. Sometimes, he would come here and meet and sometimes not. By then, I knew him and how he was.
If I told him I needed something, he would go mad finding it to bring it for me, but on his own, he would not bring anything. He is a person who cannot express his emotions. I was in Jaipur watching a match in which he was playing. They lost the match by a run and as a captain, I saw him almost crying and I liked that about him. He is a very nice guy, down-to-earth, disciplined, but you can expect only that much from him. I feel that God gave me my father instead of him.
On 15 July 2008, Neena married New Delhi-based Vivek Mehra, a chartered accountant and Partner with PwC India in a secret ceremony in the United States.
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