IANS/Kochi
Issues between divorced Malayalam star couple Urvasi and Manoj K Jayan yesterday took another turn with the actress commencing legal steps against her former husband for lowering her dignity by calling her a drunkard.The two separated in 2008 after eight years of marriage and have been engaged in a legal battle over custody of their 10-year-old daughter since then.After a court hearing on Friday, Jayan told reporters that Urvasi had come drunk and that she was an alcoholic.“He said the nastiest things about me to the media outside the court. Forget me as a film actress. I am a woman and a woman has to be respected,” Urvasi told reporters.“I am currently recovering from a surgery and due to that, I am under medication and hence I have some problems. But how can he say such nonsense about me? If he does not have sense, at least his lawyer should have stopped him from saying such things about me,” she added.Urvasi has sent a legal notice asking Jayan to apologise if he wants avoid legal action.Meanwhile Uravsi’s daughter Kunjatta too said that her mother was drunk on Friday.“I have never seen my father drinking. On Friday, since my mother was drunk, I did not want to go with her,” she told reporters.Currently, Kunjatta stays with Jayan, who has married again. Urvasi, who remains single, meets her daughter once a week.On the statement given by her daughter, Urvasi said: “She has been well tutored to say all this.”