Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah actor Priya Ahuja says she was mentally harassed: 'Mujhe nikaal ke phekk dia'

Tarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chasmah actor Priya Ahuja aka Rita Reporter has revealed that she was mentally harassed by the makers of the show.

Days after Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah's Jennifer Mistry claimed that producer Asit Modi sexually harassed her, another actor from the show has come out with accusations of disrespectful behaviour and mistreatment. In a new interview, actor Priya Ahuja, who plays Rita reporter on the show, has revealed that she faced mental harassment on the show and feels that the others who are speaking up 'are not wrong.' (Also read: Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah's Jennifer Mistry accuses Asit Modi of sexual harassment: ‘He called me sexy')

Actor Priya Ahuja has accused the makers of Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah for mental harassment.

Jennifer Mistry recently alleged that there have been multiple incidents when producer Asit Modi tried to flirt with her and 'made sexual advances'. She also slammed her co-star Mandar Chandwadkar, who plays Atmaram Tukaram Bhide on the show for supporting Asit.

Now in an interview with ETimes, Priya was asked about the recent controversy surrounding the show. To which, she responded, “Yes the artists have to go through mental harassment when they work on Taarak Mehta. Kaafi hota hai (It happens a lot)… mentally I’ve also gone through difficulties while working there but it didn’t affect me much maybe because Malav, my husband who was the director of the show for 14 years, he was earning. One benefit I had of working there was since I didn’t have a contract I was never stopped from working outside.”

Meanwhile, the makers of the show had responded to Jennifer Mistry's accusations by denying these claims and also said they would take legal action against her. Sohil Ramani, project head of Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah, spoke to Hindustan Times and said, "We have ignored her characteristics such as creating rifts among others, coming two hours late for shoot, creating misunderstandings. We have a lot of evidence against her. We have a committee of women, why did she never complain to the committee? All of us have never even entered a female artist’s makeup room. She is playing the woman card.”