Salman Rushdie’s ex-wife Padma Lakshmi supports author after attack: ‘Hoping for swift healing’

Sir Salman and Padma had been married for 3 years (Image: Getty/Rex)

Padma Lakshmi has expressed her reduction that her ex-husband Sir Salman Rushdie is ‘pulling by’ after he was brutally stabbed at a literary occasion in New York on Friday.

The 75-year-old celebrated creator suffered wounds to stab wounds to his neck, abdomen, eye, chest and thigh after being knifed as he ready to present a chat on the Chautauqua Establishment, and was airlifted to hospital the place he was positioned on a ventilator.

He was lastly capable of breathe unassisted and ‘say a number of phrases’ over the weekend, and his former associate Padma has now expressed her want for ‘swift therapeutic’.

The 51-year-old wrote in a tweet on Saturday: ‘Relieved @salmanrushdie is pulling by after Friday’s nightmare.

‘Anxious and wordless, can lastly exhale. Now hoping for swift therapeutic.’

Actress and model-turned-TV chef Padma was married to Sir Salman from 2004 till 2007.

Padma took to Twitter to share her help for her ex-husband (Image: Frazer Harrison/Getty)

Relieved @SalmanRushdie is pulling by after Friday’s nightmare. Anxious and wordless, can lastly exhale. Now hoping for swift therapeutic.

— Padma Lakshmi (@PadmaLakshmi) August 14, 2022

His son Zafar beforehand confirmed Sir Salman was off the ventilator and was capable of ‘say a number of phrases’ regardless of struggling ‘life-changing’ accidents.

He wrote: ‘My father stays in vital situation in hospital receiving in depth ongoing medical remedy. We're extraordinarily relived that yesterday he was taken off the ventilator and extra oxygen and was capable of say a number of phrases.

‘Although his life-changing accidents are extreme, his standard feisty and defiant sense of humour stays intact.’

Padma and Sir Salman in 2002 (Image: WireImage)

Zafar went on to thank the cops and docs who had taken care of his father in addition to the viewers members on the discuss in New York who rushed to his defence after the assault and administered first assist.

Hadi Matar, 24, pleaded not responsible to tried homicide throughout an arraignment listening to on Saturday.

Hadi Matar at his arraignment within the Chautauqua County Courthouse in Mayville, New York on Saturday, following the stabbing of Sir Salman (Image: AP Photograph/Gene J. Puskar)

The prize-winning creator recieved ‘life-changing’ accidents within the assault however is now off his ventilator (Image: PA)

Jason Schmidt, the Chautauqua County District Legal professional, stated previous to the listening to: ‘The person liable for the assault, Hadi Matar, has now been formally charged with tried homicide within the second diploma and assault within the second diploma.’

Booker Prize winner Sir Salman has suffered years of Islamist demise threats following the publication of his controversial 1988 novel The Satanic Verses, which was thought-about blasphemous by many Muslims.

A fatwa calling for the creator’s assassination was issued by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Supreme Chief of Iran, and Sir Salman spent almost a decade in hiding after its publication.