Hend Saeed Saleh revealed some secrets abuot her father's life, the late actor Saeed Saleh, who was dead in August 2014. "My lover, brother and friend before he was my father, he did not treat me as a father but he treated me as a friend," Hend Saleh said.

  In an exclusive interview with Arabs Today, Saeed Saleh's daughter denied that he was taking her opinion on his works, but he was informing them about his works after contracting, informing thwm that he will participate in this or that work.   "My father, who you watch him in films and plays, is different from Saeed Saleh in his real life, he was always laughing and smiling and could have laughed at the truth more than acting," Hend said, adding that he was daring, not afraid of something, and loved his friends and deal with them with love.

"He accepted to play simple role or just a scene with a friend, because he respects and appreciates them," she added. She gave an example that her father participated in most movies of producer, Ramses Najib, in the 1970s, when he appear in one scene in " Ayna Aqly" film, saying that he told her that he can not say "no" for Najib's works.

According to Hend, her father was interested in the quality and not quantity of his works. She stressed that her father was a theater actor and he loved the theater, where he used to go early four or five hours before the start of the show.   She announced that her father loved to make the melodies of some songs, although he did not play any instrument. "He made melodies of some songs in his plays and poets such as senior Salah Jahin, Ahmed Fouad Najm, Fouad Haddad and the Tunisian Birm," she added.

Regarding his relationship with great actor, Adel Imam, she said that they were more than brothers, so that when they married at first, they chose two houses in front of each other to be next to each other, adding that they were neighbors for a long time.   Regarding the absence of Adel Imam from her father's funeral, she said that when her father died, she did not think of anything but his fast burial.  She added that in this time, most of artists had finished filming their Ramadan works and spending time in the coastal cities and were not in Egypt. She stressed that actor Adel Imam attended to their home and expressed her grief and did his duty.

She added that she did not think in acting, adding that her father was afraid of me to enter the field of acting so I can take care of my son and my family. Hend added that she loved all of her father's works, but she can not watch his works now due to her grief.

Hend added that before her father's death, he was suffered of Alzheimer's disease and his health life deteriorated until his death. She denied that she was considering the embodiment of his life in an artwork.