Jun 5:

Musician and album producer Roslan Aziz has expressed disappointment at his ex-wife¡¦s ¡§callous¡¨ remarks in a newspaper report alluding to his alleged infidelity and for allegedly being a neglient father.

The report in Straits Times, Singapore, which was carried in The Malay Mail yesterday, quoted his ex-wife, 40-year-old singer Sheila Majid as saying that she had suffered in silence when their marriage hit the rocks and that her ex-husband should have divorced her if she was so bad. Instead he kept contradicting himself, she said.

Roslan retaliated by saying that he was appalled by the ¡§hyprocrisy and temerity¡¨ of his ex-wife¡¦s statement in the interview.

¡§How could she be so insensitive to come out with all these revelations now when she knew it was she who caused our marriage to crumble? It was she who left me for someone else and prevented me from seeing our children,¡¨ said Roslan.

¡§Do you know that I¡¦ve not seen my children for three years now? If she was a good mother she should not let our quarrels come between me and the children. Instead she has shut the door on me whenever I tried to meet my children and I¡¦ve even been arrested by the police (because she had a restraining order) once when I refused to leave her premises, trying to meet my children.

¡§Do you know that I had to spend a night in jail for this?¡¨

¡§It¡¦s just disgusting and unfair that she should paint a picture of happiness and harmony in her new life when every day I am dreaming of my children (daughter Khaleda, 14, and son, Megat, 11) and saving money to engage a lawyer to fight to get them back,¡¨ said the Malaysian Idol judge.

Roslan and Sheila were divorced in 2000 after a long-drawn court battle which heard allegations of infidelity and violence in their marriage.

Roslan said he did not want to divorce Sheila initially when the first cracks began to appear in the marriage in 1996 because of the children.

¡§Megat was only three and Khaleda, six-years-old at the time. I thought we could work it out.¡¨

It was during this time, Roslan said, that he had arranged for Sheila¡¦s London appearance, first at West End¡¦s Royalty Theatre where her Ratu album was launched to a capacity crowd, and after that at Ronnie Scott¡¦s, a jazz club, where she performed two shows.

¡§Can you imagine my pain, having to do this and seeing that she was no longer interested to continue with the marriage? Yet the show had to go on and let¡¦s not even talk about the amount of money I spent.

¡§I agreed to let her have the children after the divorce because I was broke. I thought she would be responsible enough not to turn the children against me.

¡§I¡¦m speaking up now because my dignity is at stake, as well as my parents¡¦, who are the ones suffering in silence.

Source: Malay Mail Online