Salma Hayek's illegal-immigrant tenure was not as dramatic and hard-scrabble as it might initially sound.The "Frida" actress describes herself as a former illegal immigrant in an interview with Spain's V magazine.
"I was an illegal immigrant in the United States. It was for a small period of time, but I still did it," the Mexican-born "Ugly Betty" producer says.
Hayek moved to Los Angeles in 1991, and her visa expired shortly after, the New York Daily News reports.
Her publicist clarifies to E! Online that the star's status "was cleaned up immediately, as Salma went to Mexico and renewed" her visa. Hayek has become an American citizen.
Meanwhile Bollywood's badman Gulshan Grover says his industry friends like Sanjay Dutt and Jackie Shroff are green with envy that he has bagged the role of Hollywood hottie Salma Hayek's husband.
The actor says his friends now want to kill him for being the lucky man.
Grover is playing Hayek's husband in the upcoming Hollywood production 'The Driver', to be directed by Bill Duke, whose credits include films like 'Sister Act 2:Back in the Habit' with Whoopi Goldberg, 'A Rage in Harlem' and 'The Cemetery Club'.
And if reports are true Hayek won't be the only celebrity on stage as actors Will Smith, Janet Jackson and Whoopie Goldberg will also make cameo appearances. "All my industry friends want to kill me. They are very jealous that I am working with Salma. I have like 16 messages for her from my actor friends like Sanjay Dutt, Jackie Shroff. Some of them say 'Gulshan please die so that we get a chance to work with Salma!',"
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