Celina Jaitly says she had to defend weightlifting in ‘bizarre’ divorce proceedings: ‘Used against me as self obsession’

Celina Jaitly filed for divorce from Peter Haag in November 2025, accusing him of domestic violence and abuse.

Actor Celina Jaitly has been through an ordeal in her personal life lately. Amidst her divorce and alleged domestic abuse case against her husband, Peter Haag, separation from her three children, and her brother being detained in the UAE, she has been vocal about it on her social media. In her latest post on Instagram, Celina said that she was questioned in court for spending around 1.5 hours a day working out.

Celina Jaitly said her gym sessions were questioned in court during her divorce.

What Celina shared

Celina shared a picture of herself taken in the gym and wrote a long post detailing how she sees exercise and discipline have helped her through some of the most difficult periods of her life. She began, “Imagine having to defend weightlifting in court. Of all the things filed against me in my bizarre divorce proceedings, perhaps the most incomprehensible was having to answer for the fact that I spent one to 1 hour a day working out. Honestly, through some of the hardest chapters of my life, working out has been one of the few things that has consistently stood by me.”

She added, “My body has given birth to 2 sets of twins. It has been shook from, loss of a child, the loss of both my parents, twin #csection , dance injuries, the crisis that has befallen my family, trauma surrounding my brother, & now the unimaginable heartbreak of separation from my children.”

‘Was it really wrong for me to lift weights’

Celina shared how showing up at the gym gave her a space to put the grief, anger, fear and anxiety in rebuilding herself when life kept trying to break her down. “After everything that life demanded of me, somehow that 1.5 hr of lifting weights became something I had to answer for in a COURT. I never thought I would need to be answerable for a value my Fauji father instilled in me from the day I was born. Discipline. Because showing up for yourself every day, whether through a sport, a workout or gym, equals discipline. Discipline equals accountability. & that becomes the example you set, specifically for your children. So amidst everything happening in my life, I still find myself asking, Was it really wrong for me to lift weights for one & a half hours a day? Or was lifting those weights precisely what gave me the strength to carry everything else? The weight on the barbell was never the heaviest weight I carried. It was simply the one weight I could choose to put down.”

Celina's marriage and divorce

Celina married Austrian national Peter Haag, and their twins were born in 2012. She gave birth to a second set of twins in 2017, but one of them died due to a health issue. In 2025, the actor filed a case under the Domestic Violence Act in a Mumbai court, alleging domestic violence from her husband.

The Mumbai police registered an FIR against Peter under multiple sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023. A Lookout Circular (LOC) was also issued against him for alleged non-cooperation in the investigation. According to ANI, the case against him pertains to allegations of cruelty, physical harm, criminal intimidation and sustained harassment. The FIR was registered at Versova Police Station on the basis of a complaint by Celina.