MY RELATIONSHIP WITH MANOHARA WAS CLOSED AND I LOVE HER, SAYA PRINCE

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Tengku Temenggong of Kelantan Tengku Muhammad Fakhry Sultan Ismail Petra declared in the High Court that he loved his wife and had never been violent towards her.

• “Our relationship was very close and I loved her very much. All my family members and the workers at the palace are witnesses to our close relationship,” said the 32-year-old prince.
• He said this when reading out a 23-page witness statement before senior assistant registrar Noordura Mohamed Din in her chambers.
• He said he now had to “live in hiding” because of the slanderous statements made by his estranged wife Cik Puan Temenggong Manohara Odelia Pinot, a former model.
• He said this yesterday at the hearing of the assessment of the damages he had suffered by her allegations that he had tortured, raped and confined her unlawfully.
• On Nov 5, the High Court had granted him a judgment-in-default in his RM105mil defamation suit against his wife and her mother.
• In his statement yesterday, Tengku Muhammad Fakhry testified that Manohara’s statements meant that he had kidnapped and unlawfully confined her.
• To a question by his counsel Mohd Haaziq Pillay, he said Manohara, whom he married on Aug 26, 2008, had never expressed dissatisfaction to his parents of his conduct as a husband.
• The prince said his wife suddenly went home to Indonesia without his permission and knowledge nine months after their marriage.
• He said Manohara did not contact him from there but instead held several press conference slandering him and tarnishing his good name and reputation.
• “Many people started to be suspicious of me and believed that I had committed all the violence which had been alleged by her,” he said.
• Asked whether his acquaintances kept in touch with him, he said they had e-mailed and telephoned him but he felt embarrassed as he had become a laughing stock.
• “Some of them ended their friendship and terminated business contracts with me as they did not want to have any relations with me.”
• He said his wife’s statements had portrayed him as a wild animal.
• The prince said Manohara’s mother Daisy Fajarina also held several press conferences slandering him and her statements were recorded and published worldwide.
• “I cannot go out as usual and am forced to ‘live in hiding’ because of the shame,” he said.
• “Some people now think that I am not fit to hold the Tengku Temenggong Kelantan post.”
• He said it had been a bitter experience for him as his ailing father had to hear the false allegations that had injured his feelings as well as tarnished his reputation and integrity as a prince and Tengku Temenggong of Kelantan.
• Noordura set Feb 25 to hear comprehensive submissions from Mohd Haaziq over the appropriate quantum of damages to be awarded.

Source: mStar