By:
Priyaranjan
Trivedy
Thursday,
July
12,
2007
The
by
now
infamous
photograph
of
Cristiano
Ronaldo
locking
lips
with
Bipasha
Basu
is
now
threatening
to
snowball
into
a
major
controversy,
with
an
outraged
Bipasha
vehemently
denying
that
she
ever
kissed
Cristiano
in
public.
Hours
after
a
London
tabloid
ran
a
front
page
photograph
of
the
soccer
star
kissing
the
actress,
and
the
same
photograph
went
on
the
internet,
a
disgusted
Bipasha
resorted
to
a
damage-control
exercise
regarding
her
image
in
Bollywood.
Although
she
admitted
that
the
photograph
was
not
doctored,
she
stressed
on
the
fact
that
Ronaldo
had
leaned
over
to
say
something
in
her
ear,
and
the
camera
caught
them
at
that
inopportune
moment.
Then
going
on
the
offensive,
she
said
that
she
doesn't
require
offering
an
explanation
for
her
behaviour.
She
further
said
that
she
is
a
free-spirited
person,
but
certainly
not
like
a
giddy-headed
teenager
who
would
get
so
carried
away
in
Ronaldo's
company
that
she
would
misbehave
with
him
in
public.
Meanwhile,
actor
John
Abraham
was
unavailable
for
his
comments
on
this
entire
episode.