Sidharth Shukla used to abuse Rashami Desai and Jasmin Bhasin on set, claims Dil Se Dil Tak co-actor | Television News
4 min readNew DelhiFeb 19, 2026 04:08 PM IST Television actor Vaishnavi Macdonald has spoken about her experience working with late actor Sidharth Shukla on Dil Se Dil Tak, claiming that he was often verbally abusive towards co-stars Rashami Desai and Jasmin Bhasin. Vaishanvi played Sidharth’s mother on the daily soap. In an interview with Sidharth Kanan, Vaishnavi recalled her first interaction with Sidharth, describing him as someone who initially came across as deeply curious and intellectual. “On the first day of the shoot, he came up to me and asked why my name was Vaishnavi Macdonald. He wanted to know everything,” she said. ‘Sidharth Shukla was not as portrayed on Bigg Boss’ However, she contrasted her personal experience on set with the public perception shaped later during Bigg Boss.“Frankly speaking, the image that was shown during Bigg Boss was very different from what I saw earlier. He was portrayed as nice and sweet, especially in his equation with Shehnaaz Gill, and the narrative shifted in that direction. But on set, there were issues involving …
