Padma Lakshmi says her ex Salman Rushdie was a flirt

Indian-origin celebrity author Salman Rushdie’s ex-wife andTop Chefhost Padma Lakshmi has revealed that they had a great time together during the brief period of their marriage because the Booker prize winning author "was a great wit and flirt". The duo remained married only for three years and separated in 2007. Talking to the Playboy magazine, the Chennai born supermodel said, "Now there is somebody who has great wit and is a great flirt. I don't regret a day I spent with Salman,but it was tiring. He has a big life, and it only got bigger when we were together. I'm happy to have stood next to him holding his hand, but we were in very different parts of our lives."

However, the world-renowned author was not so generous about his fourth ex-wife. Rushdie described Lakshmi in his recently published memoirJoseph Antonas 'Millenarian Illusion'. He painted Lakshmi as someone who was ambitious and celebrity-seeking. “She was capable of saying things of such majestic narcissism.... her moodiness was unpredictable and extreme. She was ambitious and was determined to strike out for herself. In the end she did," the author wrote.