Elizabeth Hurley has had her big fat Indian wedding, with the saas-sasur angle as well. Well, the wedding had all the Indian ingredients but she is is not exactly the demure traditional bahu. The newly wed Liz spoke her mind at a charity event in New York recently. She was attending the annual Breast Cancer Foundation's Hot Pink party, held at the prestigious Waldorf Astoria hotel.

She and her new hubby, Arun Nayar are still recovering from their extensive wedding celebrations. Model, Elizabeth Hurley told CNBC-TV18, "Well, I don't think we've settled down into real life yet. The whole wedding took forever. The wedding itself took eight days; planning it took considerably longer and I'm still recovering from it - I'm still not sure I have!"

Well, when you are planning, what in India was labelled the international wedding of the year, this comes as no surprise. In her first interview since her extravagant March wedding to Indian businessman Arun Nayar, supermodel Liz Hurley seems still literally tied to a few Indian customs.

She explains, "Well, I know it looks weird; it's not for anything lunatic. It's just because when you get married in India, the priest puts on a symbolic tie and you're not allowed to take them off. They have to come off naturally and when they come off, you don't throw them in the bin, you let them fly away, and yeah, so mine's still on and it shows no sign of coming off which is apparently a good sign, so it's staying there."

She adds, "His (Arun's) is still on. And frequently throughout the year, Indian people have pujas and stuff and they tie them on again, as a sign of friendship and respect and again you have to let them disintegrate. It's a very traditional thing."

But the same adherence to tradition definitely doesn't extend to her in-laws, Vinod Nayar and Joanne Nayar. Arun Nayar's father had publicly disowned his son and wife for allegedly humiliating them durng the Indian leg of their wedding.

Hurley deflects making any statements against her in-laws but says, "I think, whenever anybody takes time out of their life, you just feel so incredibly grateful for the nice people in your life and you know my family is fantastic. I have people like Evelyn and her husband Leonard, who've become like - I always call them my American parents because they've been there for me for a very long time and Arun's mother, a German woman, is one of the nicest women in the world - I think Evelyn spent time with her at my wedding - she's fantastic. Arun has a fabulous brother and we've got a wonderful sister-in-law; we're so lucky for the good things that we kind of turn a blind eye to the bad things."

With Liz Hurley issuing a public statement and giving Vinod Nayar a piece of her mind hours after his comments to the media, and with reports that he will testify against the couple to help the law suit filed against them in India - this looks like one family drama that is far from over.