‘Top Chef’s’ Padma Lakshmi Hopes Ex Salman Rushdie Has ’Swift Healing' After Attack

Padma Lakshmi attends the Fourth Annual Critics Choice Real TV Awards at Fairmont Century Plaza in Los Angeles on June 12, 2022. Rich Polk/Getty Images for the Critics Choice Real TV Awards/TNS

Nardine Saad Los Angeles Times

“Top Chef” host and judge Padma Lakshmi is “relieved” that her ex-husband, author Salman Rushdie, is on the road to recovery after being stabbed multiple times at a lecture in upstate New York last week.