The Pakistani model at the centre of the FHM India row who was reported missing on Friday has turned up safe in a hotel in India.
Veena Malik, who posed nude for the Indian version of FHM magazine, apparently vanished last week, causing her manager, Pratiek Mehta, to report her missing.
He became worried after she had told him she had received several death threats over the photos.
The 33-year-old, who is in India filming a movie, has since emerged and her spokesperson said she was staying in a hotel in Mumbai.
'Touched base with Veena this morning, she is fine,' a spokesperson told the Daily Mirror.
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| The actress claims she was in the past approached to pose for nude pictures by other agencies, but always refused |
But she revealed today that since launching her lawsuit, she has been threatened in an attempt to get her to drop it.
The 33-year-old told the Mail Online: 'I feel completely cheated. They've added ten years to my age. 'They threatened to sue me if I don't keep quiet.'
Malik appeared naked on the cover of the December issue of FHM India with just her arms and legs covering her modesty, sporting a tattoo of the initials 'ISI' on her arm, a reference to Pakistan's intelligence agency.
The image sparked outrage in her homeland.
She said: 'The image we shot was completely different to the one on the cover. I was wearing hot pants and they promised me they would cover my upper body with multiple tattoos.
'Instead, they removed the hot pants.'
She also claims the editor-in-chief Kabeer Sharma and the journalist who interviewed her refused to respond to her calls following the release of the issue, despite being in daily contact with them prior to the shoot.
FHM India is owned by Maxposure, separate to the UK-owned FHM, which is published by Bauer Media.
Since then, Malik says she has received a legal notice from FHM India which she claims was 'aggressive' in tone, and she says threatened her with character defamation if she did not retract her allegations.
Malik said: 'I did not sign any contract and refused to until I was given final approval of the images. I was never sent the pictures but I was assured they were the same shots taken on the shoot in November.
'I was cool with those pictures because I felt they were artistic and beautiful. They should have waited for my authorisation but they didn't.
'There was only one week between the shoot and publication - they were obviously in a rush to print them without my consent.'
The 33-year-old also revealed she has already been approached by an international agency in the past to do nude images.
She said: 'I was approached in the past to do nude shots for money and I refused. So why would I accept to do that for FHM India for free?'
Sharma vehemently denies the pictures are doctored and that the model has been threatened, insisting Malik has given contradictory accounts of the shoot.
He said: 'It's important to note Ms Malik has been dragging the magazine's name through muck by making false and baseless allegations and we look at it very, very seriously.
'I invite Ms Malik to furnish one shred of evidence, SMS or a witness to support her allegations which are as concocted as the ones she's been making all week.
'No one in FHM has had any conversation with Ms Malik directly or indirectly to make this 'imagined threat'.
'The one message that was sent to her was one that told her she could call the office landline if she wanted to have a conversation.
Veena is hoping to reconcile with her father, who has disowned her since seeing the pictures
'She did not even once ask him to stop filming.'
Malik claims no such video was taken and that when she noticed filming taking place, when she was fully clothed she asked them to stop as it was not in line with the previous agreement to only shoot images.
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