In response to her recent statements, Ashraf Sabri, the father of Egyptian actress Yasmin Sabri, fiercely criticized his daughter with "harsh" words. After Yasmin claimed that she "lived a simple life and did not buy what she wanted in her childhood," her father, Dr. Ashraf, posted on his Facebook account: "This is the school my daughters graduated from, one of whom claims she was in Arabic schools and lived a miserable, poor life and achieved success through her own efforts!"
He added, "Is there a lie that reaches this extent? I understand lying when you come from a poor background and lie by saying I'm from a big family and attended foreign schools and lived in a palace while my father was a minister working as a laborer! This kind of lie has justification! But how can someone who had a Filipino maid, wore clothes from Paris because I brought them for her, attended the 'EGC' school – the most prestigious school in Alexandria at the time, lived in a villa with a swimming pool and a gym, had her own room with a bath, and was dull, and barely managed to pass with fifty percent, and was in college with difficulty, while I woke her up every morning to go to college and she was expelled twice in one year – how can she claim she lived a miserable life without money?"
He continued, "What is this lying and ridiculous act? You are acting a role inherited from your mother's grandfather, Sid Suleiman... and why are you lying? Are you going to get a badge for your failures and poverty, claiming you reached something? To your father, you are just a family member who does not understand what she is doing except for tarnishing the image of those who raised you so others feel sorry for you. Even your brother, whom you have always dragged down, comes from far away for you!"
He concluded his post by saying, "Oh woman, stop what you are doing, and I put my trust in God regarding you... stop mentioning your family and your father who raised you. May God hold you accountable."
Yasmin Sabri had stated during her participation in a discussion on Twitter via a 'Space' launched by writer Tamer Abdo Amin: "I am a girl from Alexandria from a middle-class background; I studied at a public school during some periods of my life, and I used to walk to swimming training. At that time, I imagined I owned the most beautiful things in the world, whether it was clothes or a luxurious apartment or a car."
She continued: "I had no evidence or tangible things, but I felt that I would own all of this and that I deserved it, believing that I was a lucky person. My imagination flew to the future, and whenever I reached a stage, I dreamed about the next one." Yasmin Sabri added: "I loved myself, meaning that I did not want to be in a place that did not benefit me or to do anything that diminishes my worth, so I created a persona I wanted people to see me in."
