“MeToo Allegations Upset Sushant”, Says Rhea Chakraborty: Full Transcript

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NDTV: What does the 28-year-old girl on the centre of essentially the most sensualized media trial must say? What Is her facet of the story? Becoming a member of me tonight is Rhea Chakraborty. Rhea, you heard my introduction, you might be accused primary in India’s most sensational case for the time being. It is like we’ve got nothing else to fret about. What precisely is your response? Rhea that was Sushant Singh Rajput’s father saying at the moment that you just poisoned his son, you murdered his son. How would you reply to that? Your response to that?

Rhea Chakraborty: I imply this can be very hurtful that somebody who’s going via a loss this huge as I’m doesn’t perceive what this could possibly be doing to me. I beloved his son, and it is simply past me to
perceive that’s there no humanity? I taken care of his son. Not less than have the humanity should you don’t love me as his girlfriend, not less than have the humanity that now that he is handed, respect his love for me. If not mine for him.

NDTV: You realize Rhea, in a way you may put down Sushant’s household and their characters to their grief, however what’s truly now develop into the large problem is the truth that at the moment a senior BJP chief mentioned that the anti-terror company, the NIA, ought to examine your position on this case. As I’ve mentioned we already have the CBI, the ED, the Narcotics Bureau investigating your position on this case. It is virtually, I imply there have been related circumstances when there have been fugitives, as Swara Baskar mentioned at the moment, Kasab would not have been handled like this. What would you say at the moment, you are 28, and also you’re being investigated by three central companies, what’s your response to that?

Rhea Chakraborty: It is actually troublesome, me and my whole household are going via scrutiny day-after-day. At present there was a mob at my doorstep. My father was harassed, he was touched, he was hit. My watchman was crushed up in my constructing, contained in the premises. They don’t seem to be simply harassing me however the individuals dwelling within the society. Tomorrow, they could ask us to depart. What are you doing to this household? I wish to ask all people this query, what are you doing to this household? We’re being grilled, we’re a part of each investigation, we’re doing all our duties. We’re simply law-abiding residents. However why cannot you look forward to the consequence to come back? And if you do not have religion within the authorized system it is best to depart India. As a result of I do. And my household does. And that is why we’re nonetheless alive or we’d have dedicated suicide too. With the type of allegations and accusations, treating me worse than a terrorist. My father served the nation for 25 years as a military officer. And you might be treating this household like we’re terrorists. When all we did was love a boy.

NDTV: Rhea, already you could have seen the reactions to your interviews which have come, that you’re this, that your interviews are PR interviews, they’re smooth interviews. The very fact is that this interview goes reside proper now, we’re not modifying something. However the allegation being that you’re utilizing this for public sympathy. Why have you ever determined to talk up at the moment? Do you suppose you’ll be arrested tomorrow?

Rhea Chakraborty: No, I do not suppose I’ll be arrested tomorrow, as a result of I’ve not performed something worthy of being arrested. However I really feel the necessity to converse as a result of my mom is now the verge of a psychological breakdown fully. She might need to be moved to the hospital. My household is breaking, my father is being pushed round and virtually bodily and mentally lynched at. I’ve to do that for them. What about my household? What about what we’re going via? And I did not converse for thus many days out of respect for Sushant. And what was being mentioned was so absurd that it irked me. It damage me that they’re destroying his reminiscence. They’re destroying him, have respect for the one that has gone not less than. Not less than truth test. What’s up with journalists on this nation, he’s lifeless.

NDTV: You mentioned simply now Rhea, that your loved ones and also you typically think about, or suppose that you just would possibly simply commit suicide. That is a really robust factor to say, that is one thing that should not be mentioned calmly. Why are you saying one thing like that? Is it one thing to achieve sympathy? What are you going via proper now?

Rhea Chakraborty: I am simply damaged, and I am looking for energy day-after-day. For me and my household. The one motive we’re nonetheless alive is as a result of I’m talking the reality. The type of psychological, bodily, emotional pressures on us are insufferable. Every other individual going via such a scenario or every other household would possibly think about the identical. It is unfair, its unjust. It is with out proof. And the entire nation appears to have determined what they’ve determined. Primarily based on what? Primarily based on a number of allegations? Primarily based on a number of experiences saying that, saying absurd issues.

NDTV: Properly Rhea, I feel the primary level is that what’s gotten misplaced in that is the tragic demise of a younger man, but additionally, why the nation is saying that is due to the truth that the Bihar authorities received concerned on this, the Bihar authorities, and the Supreme Courtroom, which agreed for a CBI probe. The truth that companies, and I’ve this with me, are leaking paperwork, are exhibiting WhatsApp messages of you with individuals, they’re saying are speaking about medicine. With alleged drug sellers in keeping with the companies, so now you’ve got the Narcotics Management Bureau concerned. What would you say about these WhatsApp messages that apparently present you speaking to a supplier about “Get me MD” speaking about weed, and so on?

Rhea Chakraborty: I’ve by no means spoken to a supplier in my life, I’ve by no means taken medicine in my life. I am prepared to go for a blood take a look at. I deny all these allegations and I wish to save the remainder for when the investigation takes place as a result of something I say will get misconstrued.

NDTV: As these WhatsApp messages present, and as you could have mentioned that Sushant was taking medicine, or he was having weed?

Rhea Chakraborty: Sure, it’s unlucky that we’ve got to talk about him on this gentle. But it surely’s not been performed by me, the Pandora’s field has been opened by his household. They’ve put out these allegations. I wished his reminiscence to be pristine and exquisite, as a result of he was an attractive boy. However in flip these allegations are being placed on me. And the very fact stays that sure Sushant used to smoke marijuana. I attempted my finest to manage him, to make him cease, this was the one division the place I used to be making an attempt to manage him in one thing. I used to be making an attempt to make him scale back it in actual fact. And I’ve been put able the place sadly each single non-public element of my life and my pal’s life is public. A easy “I’m sorry” is taken out of proportion and me being handled like worse than a terrorist… my household’s psychological well being is being destroyed. That is, that is just like the systematic breakdown of a whole household.

NDTV: However in a way, Rhea, did not it start once you first tweeted to the House Minister of India asking for CBI probe into it. Did you truly open that Pandora’s field in a way your self? The truth that the Supreme Courtroom has accepted and I once more need to learn out this, that the Bihar first info report (FIR) must be investigated which incorporates the claims of Sushant Singh’s father the place he mentioned within the FIR that once you left on June Eight you had taken money, jewelry, laptop computer, bank cards. That you simply have been dealing with his checking account from which crores of rupees have been withdrawn, that you just had threatened to indicate physician receipts to the media and show that Sushant Singh was mad after which no individual would give him work. After which on June 8, Sushant’s secretary Disha dedicated suicide. You had appointed Disha as a secretary, you had blocked Sushant’s quantity and Sushant was afraid that you’d body within the suicide of Disha. These are from the Bihar FIR based mostly on his father’s complaints.

Rhea Chakraborty: Ma’am they’re fully baseless, they’re worse than rumours. I by no means took a single rupee from Sushant. My financial institution statements are there I’m already been probed by ED. This Rs 15 crore they’re speaking about doesn’t exist now that Sushant’s financial institution statements are on the market. This can be a very huge quantity it will have been discovered, it can’t be hidden, it can’t disappear into skinny air. We had an organization collectively the place we have been equal companions the place all of us gave 33,000 every. No transaction was ever made in that firm. I used to be not isolating Sushant, in actual fact he met his household on a number of events in November. In January, he in actual fact went to Chandigarh to his sister and brother in legislation OP Singh’s home. He got here again from there, why did they let him come again in the event that they mentioned I used to be isolating him. In February, they met him once more in Mumbai, the place they’re sitting in a restaurant having meals and smiling at one another. Why have been they making these complaints and saying get that woman and whack her? That was the message to a senior cop in Mumbai Police by Sushant’s brother-in-law. Why have been they making that and this does not make sense to me, should you thought that, you had your brother in legislation, you had Sushant sitting with you at a restaurant it is best to have informed him what you felt. It is best to have taken him again with you.

NDTV: Why did you tweet to the House Minister asking for a CBI inquiry? Do you suppose there was foul play in Sushant’s demise? Do you suppose he was murdered? Why did you try this?

Rhea Chakraborty: I used to be not there from June Eight to 14. I need to know what occurred in that one week, whether or not it was suicide, whether or not it was homicide. If it was suicide, what drove him to that time as a result of he had at all times informed me that he would by no means take such a drastic step and that is what shakes me. And that is why I would like India’s apex establishment, which is CBI, to come back and examine this and I requested for CBI inquiry earlier than the Bihar FIR, lengthy earlier than the Bihar FIR. I do not understand how individuals have turned this round and made this as “I do not need CBI.” I place confidence in CBI, place confidence in the federal government and that’s the reason I’m nonetheless alive.

NDTV: It has develop into an enormous political problem. You talked about additionally in your assertion to the Supreme Courtroom that this has develop into about politics. That there’s a Bihar election developing. There’s additionally the truth that you could have political social gathering leaders focusing on Maharashtra authorities, Aditya Thackeray, saying that he’s linked to this case in a roundabout way and that is why the Mumbai Police was going smooth on you.

Rhea Chakraborty: The Mumbai Police by no means went smooth, they have been in actual fact extraordinarily harsh… ED was one harsh investigation. CBI goes to be one other such investigation and every investigation takes away part of the psychological well being. As a result of to the world it is like: do the investigation. Sure, I would like the reality to come back out so I’m cooperating. I’ve been the centre and the one that was most questioned in all of those investigations. I need to know the reality, I do not perceive why no person is questioning the truth that his sister Mitu was with him from (June) Eight to the 13. She left on the 13th, if she felt his psychological well being was not okay, if she felt that he was upset due to me or due to this Disha Saliya, then why did she depart?

NDTV: The Mumbai Police went into a very completely different factor the place they have been interviewing members of the movie trade on problems with nepotism and whether or not he felt unhealthy of being ignored or sidelined from the movie trade. That was one fully completely different investigation. Now you could have been questioned by the ED. What’s the ED targeted on as a result of companies are additionally leaking stuff which appears damaging to you as effectively. Experiences of a Khar flat being purchased the place it isn’t clear the place the supply of cash is… the truth that you are being investigated for cash laundering is a really completely different investigation from the Mumbai Police.

Rhea Chakraborty: It is actually unhappy that my whole WhatsApp chats, something and all the pieces, is on the market. It is solely been given to the companies. I’ve not given my cellphone to anybody else. It is actually unhappy that I’ve no privateness left, my buddies’ numbers are being flashed on TV, I’m being accused of all the pieces below the solar and no person is asking me what actually occurred and that is why at the moment I really feel it is time for me to talk up due to this one-sided narrative, each single individual in my home…

NDTV: Actually your father was on the ED the entire day at the moment, your brother is on the CBI. So your brother – many have requested why an organization was arrange with you, Sushant and your brother. Your father you mentioned is a retired Military surgeon – he is being questioned by the ED. The lockers shall be opened. What was the ED investigation like for you and your loved ones?

Rhea Chakraborty: They need to know each monetary element and we’re glad to supply that, there may be completely no drawback in cooperation and I’m prepared, greater than prepared, to cooperate with each investigation company which desires to analyze any matter with me, however all I ask for within the meantime is for a good trial by the media, by the individuals, to simply have religion and wait, as a result of in flip your actually, actually are breaking down a easy harmless middle-class household, and a person who has served the nation as effectively.

NDTV: A easy harmless middle-class household… However Rhea, the portrayal is totally completely different. Inform us about Sushant and also you… once you final noticed him, once you first met him. Did you ever suppose that Sushant may take his personal life?

Rhea Chakraborty: I actually, I nonetheless do not consider it and I did not suppose that such a factor would ever occur. He was completely the most effective man, completely essentially the most lovely individual I met in my life. He was clever and filled with concepts and he had goals and he wished to vary the world for the higher, he wished to assist kids, he wished to do charities as he did loads as effectively, he was extraordinarily loving. He was the best boyfriend and he actually taken care of me. He would give me recommendation, if something I might take a whole lot of recommendation on each single factor in my life, as a result of he was, on the finish of the day, a star and I actually was happy with him for that and happy with what he has achieved in his lifetime. And coming from a small city and we bonded over it as a result of I additionally grew up throughout India, wherever my dad was being posted in varied locations. I additionally come from a small city. I additionally am an outsider. I’m additionally making an attempt to make it on this trade and we actually need to do this stuff. We’ve got a friendship that’s one thing spectacular. And our relationship was one thing of a film, one thing of fairy story and sure, there have been issues, and sure, he was going via melancholy and nervousness.

NDTV: No, as a result of going by your individual assertion. It was a relationship that started in April, 2019 however very quickly after that psychological well being points began developing. Was Sushant first identified when he was with you as a bipolar and really extreme when it comes to the locking him up, the staying away from beating anyone and at the moment… and maybe that is why his household is so upset with you as a result of he had additionally reduce himself off from his household fully and appeared to be very near yours. I requested about it due to the truth that your brother accompanied you in your Europe journeys, the truth that your brother was in an organization with him… why ought to that be, contemplating he would have been a current pal of Sushant’s, in all probability after he had met you.

Rhea Chakraborty: So Shovik and Sushant shared a whole lot of frequent pursuits. Like taking part in sports activities. My brother was impressed by Sushant, he was like an elder brother to him, he was like anyone he aspired to be like. And if he was all in favour of a sure topic, he would contain my brother, “examine this learn, about that” and when his dream undertaking on this digital actuality firm was to start out, he wished companions and naturally the primary best option for him have been me and my brother. As he was already discussing this stuff with us like Synthetic Intelligence and digital actuality and he was educating us all of the issues, and he was giving us assignments to do in actual fact. And there have been no monetary transactions. Individuals see that angle and suppose that it was for cash and simply due to the corporate phrase everybody thinks its cash, cash, cash. That is not the case. All we did was begin the corporate which requires little or no quantity of monetary funding by companions equally and sadly not one of the work kicked off, sadly none of these initiatives got here to life. However there was actually no different agenda, or something to it, in actual fact we wished Sushant to realize his goals, he had 150 goals. And considered one of them was to create free schooling for youngsters. Certainly one of them was to create one thing on synthetic intelligence that may assist kids study higher and research higher and I did all the pieces in my capability to assist.

NDTV: You say that it was like a film however the truth is that it ended on a bitter word when in a way, as you mentioned, Sushant requested you to depart his home. He did not contact you after that, besides as soon as. He truly reduce off all ties with you. There are messages then with movie director Mahesh Bhatt and also you have been, in a way, you mentioned you have left. Mahesh Bhatt says “consider your father, little one”. So it ended on a particularly bitter word and it did not finish in any type of fairy tail on a cheerful word. So in a way you guys have been fully estranged then. Why did that occur if issues have been going so effectively?

Rhea Chakraborty: Ma’am, actually, even in January 2020 he requested me to depart as soon as and his clarification then was that he’s going to Patna after which the very subsequent day he known as me again and I went again and I in all probability thought that this could possibly be one of many similar. In June 2020, he was planning to shift to Coorg and he was planning to maneuver there. He even had contacted his attorneys and had requested Sidharth Pithani to search out him a home there. And this time round once more he was asking me to depart and I believed he’ll name me again like he usually does however for the following 24 hours he did not. And even when he messaged me, it was simply to ask about how I’m, how I’m doing however nothing about him wanting me again. And naturally, if you’re caring for somebody and you’re keen on somebody a lot, they ask you to depart, you do really feel upset, you do really feel like, why does he not want me anymore, why does he not need me anymore and these insecurities as a woman, any woman can perceive. That in case your boyfriend or associate asks you to depart unexpectedly and you’ve got been there for him in each capability and you will have a tremendous relationship you’ll be upset and therefore I blocked him. And the following day, I used to be fully damaged as a result of even the following day, he messaged my brother and it had no point out of him wanting me again, only a message saying care for her. How is she doing and you’re taking care and take care and that was very uncommon, Sushant would by no means try this, he would at all times need me again. And I knew that his sister was there, and I knew that they might be extra comfy with out me and with out my presence. I did not know what could possibly be the rationale, why he did not need to see me. And naturally it damage me and naturally it made me realise that possibly he doesn’t need me anymore.

NDTV: How extreme was the melancholy on the time he was with you? Did you warn his household about it?

Rhea Chakraborty: Sure, he was in actual fact in contact along with his household all all through his melancholy. After we got here again from the journey, in actual fact on the journey, even from Italy and Vienna, he had began contacting his father and his sisters to inform them that he’s anxious and to inform them that he’s getting nervousness. Actually, after coming again he was continuously in contact with them for 2 months earlier than they got here to Mumbai to go to him at Waterstone in November. They determined to depart the identical night time they came around him. In the event that they thought that I used to be not the fitting individual in his life, in actual fact I informed them about all of the remedy and all of the medical doctors and handed over all the pieces to them. But they left in the midst of the night time. That is why I do not perceive, I perceive them not liking me as a result of {our relationships} have been strained from the start. In April, when his sister Priyanka tried to grope me in my sleep and I informed Sushant. The following day that they had an altercation of which chats are on the market, the place Sushant is saying that Priyanka has misbehaved drunk. It is molestation and he is messaging his brother-in-law Siddharth, who’s Priyanka’s husband, saying that , this about her, you understand how she is manipulating issues. They wished to do a case on him on this month and I hope that these messages come out now that all the pieces is popping out. They have been about to do a case towards Sushant in these months. And thereafter, regardless that his sister got here in November, I wished him to be along with his household, as a result of it was a really critical problem.

NDTV: Rhea, you paint an image of a really completely different, virtually dysfunctional household. You mentioned that Sushant was in a way estranged from his father. You mentioned his mom additionally suffered from the identical points. How do you know this? What’s the proof you could have?

Rhea Chakraborty: Ma’am, one which Sushant informed me, and two that in 2011 his sister, Shweta Singh Kirti, who lives within the US if I am not mistaken… she put out a publish on psychological well being on her Fb account, you can see it in public area about psychological well being, about how her mom was struggling and about how she feels strongly about the way it runs in her household, it is a genetic factor and the way she desires to do one thing about psychological well being. She took it down from her Fb web page the day of the FIR in Patna.

NDTV: Actually she has additionally tweeted at the moment saying that you just should not be given a platform, a nationwide platform, to precise your views. However the father appears to have reached out to Sushant repeatedly. He says you truly blocked him from contacting his son.

Rhea Chakraborty: Sushant’s father solely messaged me as soon as. That was when Sushant was within the hospital, Hinduja, he was admitted below Dr Kersey. He had wished to get admitted himself. As since I’m not legally at energy to confess anybody forcefully, it needed to be his personal will and which it was. His father had contacted Sushant in addition to his supervisor Shruti in addition to me, nevertheless it was one message to me and I informed Sushant since I used to be there with him and he known as him the identical day. You possibly can test his name logs. He didn’t need me to answer to him for some motive. What’s going to you do if you’re together with your associate and so they have one thing occurring with their household that you do not fully perceive and so they inform “you keep out of it I will deal with it.” He spoke to his father on his personal as a result of Sushant’s father’s chat with Shruti reveals that he says I’ve spoken to Sushant. However should you’ve spoken to Sushant it is best to inform him to inform Shruti to guide the tickets. If that is what he desires.

NDTV: Lets come again to that time I raised earlier. Why do you suppose that the Bihar elections or Bihar politics has something to do with this. And have you learnt Aditya Thackeray? Have you ever ever met him… what’s the entire Aditya Thackeray angle which retains developing linked to this case and also you?

Rhea Chakraborty: There’s a name log of mine that’s leaked which has a pal of mine, Anaya Udas whose title has been saved as AU. Her title is Anaya Udas, however they’re representing it as Aditya Uddhav or Aditya Thackeray. I’ve by no means met, I’ve by no means spoken or have the variety of Aditya Thackeray. I solely know him as all of him on TV. I’ve no different political connections. I have no idea something about why that is taking place and what politics is concerned. I simply know {that a} easy household who has not performed something is being handled worse than a terrorist.

NDTV: So once you hear {that a} BJP chief desires an anti-terror company to analyze this, what’s your response?

Rhea Chakraborty: I’m shocked as a result of I really feel like this, like this can be a breaking down of a household. Tomorrow if one thing occurs to us and it is not as a result of we have performed something nevertheless it’s due to large stress. There’s the media outdoors screaming all types of names. There are false allegations, on a regular basis there’s a new accusation or allegation by the household to me. Typically it is about being a assassin, generally it is about being a thief, generally it is about one thing. Typically it is about medicine, and I’m not getting the possibility as a result of I’m a part of so many investigations, proper now three, there’s ED, there’s CBI, there’s NCB. I imply all I’ve left is my spirit and that is being crushed too, Ma’am.

NDTV: You mentioned that once you left on the eighth of June Sushant died on 14th. If you left on the eighth of June you mentioned you have been going via panic assaults you have been going to have remedy session as effectively at Sushant’s home, however he mentioned no depart instantly. If you first heard that Sushant had died what was your first response, what did you undergo and what are you going via proper now?

Rhea Chakraborty: I hear from a standard pal that such and such hearsay is occurring about him and should you’re with him, they assumed that I used to be with him, please inform him to place out an announcement and squash this hearsay. It was solely then that I realised that one thing was bizarre. After which sooner, later it was confirmed that it is true and I used to be fully shattered I used to be fully damaged. My life has been taken away from me; the love of my life has been fully taken away from me. The well being and psychological well being of my household is totally destroyed. I imply it simply could not be worse for me. And the one factor that’s giving me energy to go on is that I’m talking the reality and is that Sushant is right here overlooking all the pieces and serving to me and serving to me get the reality out.

NDTV: You were not invited to the funeral you could not see the person you say was the love of your life. You were not invited to his funeral. However but you went to the mortuary and loads has been made on the truth that you mentioned there “sorry Babu” and what we’re sorry about. What went via your thoughts once you have been there you noticed his physique for only a few minutes.

Rhea Chakraborty: Ma’am, what would you say to somebody who has misplaced their life who you could have beloved? Ma’am I am asking you solely what would you say? I am sorry, I am sorry you misplaced your life. I’m sorry it is, I imply it is essentially the most primary human courtesy. His sister Shweta Singh Kirti had additionally put out a tweet the day after Sushant Singh died, saying I am sorry Babu the identical factor and he or she mentioned, “I knew you have been struggling. I do know you have been in ache”. Once more, she deleted that, why is no person asking these questions? How is all the pieces being misconstrued to this diploma. A easy I’m sorry is being misconstrued to this diploma.

NDTV: I can think about the tragedy of seeing somebody you really liked – his lifeless physique. However evidently day-after-day a brand new layer comes out. You’ve got seen now along with his entire medicine angle popping out. That the actress Kangana Ranaut has tweeted this occurs in all huge Bollywood events that medicine are freely obtainable, that should you open it the entire of Bollywood could be uncovered  – many A-listers. You have got seen varied different issues like clear up Bollywood is a component of a bigger Nepotism – it is an trade which must be cleaned up and Sushant was additionally a sufferer of that. What would you say as somebody who has been a part of the identical system, somebody who did not obtain the success that say Sushant did or the larger stars did however anyone who’s a part of the system. Do you suppose these are the realities of dwelling in Bollywood at the moment? The medicine, fixed stress on dwelling up, you’re a failure or success is outlined by your final film?

Rhea Chakraborty: Ma’am, it is positively a really troublesome trade to be part of. The ups are up, the downs are very down and there may be monumental stress and I wish to say this that it is essential that there have been sure issues that basically affected him and that basically affected his psychological well being and psychological sanity, and considered one of them was being falsely accused by the ‘Me Too’ allegations which have been cleared up and solely a lot later. Which appeared like a whole deliberate strategic transfer, performed to malign somebody’s popularity, and it actually affected him as a result of he was not that type of man in any respect. I lived with him for a year-and-a-half, and he was essentially the most well mannered, most light, most respectful human being and a person to a lady, and this was being constituted of that ‘Me Too’ motion, and his co-star Sanjana Sanghi not clarifying it on time after which denying it later. He simply felt that it was a part of some bigger nexus being performed by a Rohini Iyer, who pretends to be his pal. And these blind articles that stored popping out every time he would converse to her. And he felt that there was somebody behind this. I do not know who, he by no means talked about to me who, however I’ve talked about this to Mumbai Police, I’ve talked about this to ED, and I’ll inform and point out this to the CBI as effectively. That additionally not being nominated for awards, not being nominated regardless that his movies have been excellent and received cash as effectively. Not being nominated. His movies being nominated, however not him being nominated. Though he was such a superb performer, like shockingly nice performances of his weren’t nominated. Even final yr throughout Chichore and Sonchiriya, he felt that what’s the level if no person goes to take discover and he was affected by that and this stuff damage him. These frivolous, blind articles and particularly the allegation. The one motive I’m emphasising on this explicit one is as a result of even in Could 2020 he talked about to me about that he was scared that the movie is releasing, so earlier than the promotions he wished to get in contact with Sanjana Sanghi. To see which means she goes, is she going to start out this garbage once more. And he would typically be terrified of her and that within the promotions issues once more shall be mentioned about him, about ‘Me Too’. And these are issues that may have an effect on psychological well being and at the moment I perceive, I fully perceive as a result of I’m going via the identical factor as him.

NDTV: Is it true that medicine are prevalent in Bollywood? It’s one thing that you just virtually must survive this type of trade?

Rhea Chakraborty: No ma’am, completely not, I do not consider in that type of idea. However effectively that may be for the investigative companies to determine.

NDTV: Did you discover, as a result of we talked about your chats with Mahesh Bhatt, you had acted in his film Jalebi additionally. However the truth that this entire groupism, as you mentioned the Mumbai Police first went on that angle, however this entire allegation of nepotism. The truth that there are specific camps in Bollywood. You have been Yash Raj, Sushant was Yash Raj. And the truth that he wasn’t invited on Koffee with Karan or some foolish sport performed by Alia Bhatt and Karan Johar is one thing that damage him so deeply he could not recuperate from that melancholy –  is that true?

Rhea Chakraborty: Ma’am I personally really feel that it was the ‘Me Too’ allegations is what began the ache and stress and stress to Sushant and he did really feel somebody was behind it. He did not really feel that it was strategically performed however at all times simply “them, them, them, and I do not know who these persons are”. However he at all times felt that behind a Sanjana Sanghi there could be another person.

NDTV: If you look – do you would like at the moment that you just had by no means met Sushant Singh Rajput?

Rhea Chakraborty: No Ma’am. Even at the moment, even regardless of what me and my household are going via I might have by no means performed anything however love him in the way in which I did. I proceed to like him that means regardless that I’m going via all of this. It is his recollections and his face that give me the energy to hold on. It is his voice in my head saying do not allow them to win. It is his voice in my head saying you might be robust, present them the true you. That retains me going.

NDTV: I am not one to evaluate you right here. I’m a journalist and my job is to ask you questions. I positively do not need to indict you – harmless, responsible that is not my job. However the truth is, you have been judged already, the hashtags on different TV channels say arrest Rhea Chakrabarty proper now. You get rape and demise threats. Do you are feeling that that is additionally taking place as a result of you’re a girl? The final time I noticed this was within the Aarushi trial after I noticed her mother and father being hounded in an identical means. CBI case dragged on for years, and no actual final result. Do you are worried that one thing like that may occur to you? What would you say in regards to the assault that’s taking place on you?

Rhea Chakraborty: I am simply due to his girlfriend, simply because I’m, I used to be much less profitable than him that makes me a gold digger and an exploiter for my profession. Simply because I used to be taking care of him as a result of he was right here alone. Individuals have made tales that I used to be doing this to him on objective. Why would I do that to him when I’m doing a movie with him publish the lockdown. He is the most effective boyfriend to me, he loves me. Why would I do one thing like this? These allegations are made as a result of has a girlfriend he usee ne he kiya hoga. Women are manipulative, Bengali women do black magic. Uski aukat kya hai to be with a star like him. It is actually, actually unhappy that anytime something occurs to a person the lady is blamed. If she’s the girlfriend, if she’s the bahu. The in-laws additionally typically blame the bahu that, bahu theekh say nahi kar rahi hai. I believed in India at the moment we’d have moved away from these stereotypes and this unlucky slander towards girls, nevertheless it continues. That is an absolute witch-hunt. And me being Bengali is a cherry on the cake for them as a result of apparently all Bengali girls do black magic. I do not perceive this.

NDTV: I do not perceive that both, that black magic garbage. And in addition the Bihar BJP mentioned that. He mentioned that about you the iski aukat kya hai that she’s going to say one thing in regards to the Chief Minister of Bihar. What was your response once you heard that? What’s Rhea Chakraborty’s aukat?

Rhea Chakraborty: My aukat is that Sushant beloved me. Sushant Singh Rajput who now everybody claims to like, beloved me.

NDTV: Rhea once more we come again to what the household says, and neglect the household, once more they’re grieving so I do not need to get into the household and what they mentioned particularly. However what the companies are charging you with. It isn’t a few love story, it’s a legal story. Very critical allegations – it’s tax payers cash which is paying for this investigation. It’s taking place at a tempo that we’ve not seen in lots of circumstances, involving financial institution scams, involving homicide, involving rape. We cannot see this type of consideration on it. However we see it proper now on you.

Rhea Chakraborty: I do not appear to grasp why I’m within the centre of this. I really feel prefer it’s partly due to this mentality {that a} girlfriend is manipulative or there’s a sure witch-hunt mentality that goes round on this nation. And it is partly as a result of his household has made all these false allegations. And it is simply unhappy to me that collectively all of that is the, I by no means thought the world could possibly be this sick. I by no means thought that humanity could possibly be shredded to this diploma, . That folks cannot see via false stuff, that folks cannot see via made-up information and folks must proceed to believing all of the gossip. They’ve made my life like watching a cleaning soap opera, like it’s a minimum of watching a Saas Bahu present on prime-time tv, on information channels at the moment. No proof, simply baseless allegations, morphing random individuals who weren’t in his life, taking statements from right here and there. Everybody has develop into the Choose and the Jury. I humbly attraction to all the ladies to have ever misplaced a beloved one of their life, whether or not it is a husband or a son or a boyfriend or a brother. Simply since you have been of their life you aren’t the trigger. You in all probability have been the caregiver.

NDTV: Actually that individuals who have come out strongest towards you might be girls. You’ve got received Ankita, his ex-girlfriend saying that when he was with me there have been by no means any ideas of suicide. You mentioned that he had a medication that he took on flights. She’s tweeted an image of him on a simulator saying he beloved flying.

Rhea Chakraborty: That is why he wished to discover ways to fly, so he does not really feel the claustrophobia. And in order that he by no means has to take a seat within the again as a passenger. She would not know that as a result of she was not in his life for the final 4 years. She had no communication with him, but Ms. Ankita Lokhande makes statements like Sushant informed her that I used to be harassing him? However when did you converse to him that he informed you all of this? How are you going to make this assertion when you have not spoken to him, and the following assertion is that you have not spoken to him? So, you have not spoken to him, but he informed you someway? Ma’am, do individuals not see via this? Do individuals not see that she is mendacity? Is it not fairly clear?

NDTV: What about different girls who’ve spoken out towards you?

Rhea Chakraborty: Even with Ankita I might anticipate that she in all probability beloved him sooner or later and he or she ought to have understood the type of ache that I’m going via. She ought to have truly reached out to me as an alternative of getting into speaking all types of lies about me. And even with different girls, I do not understand how and why they consider all these tales. I simply need to ask one query, what if this was taking place to you? What if this was taking place to your daughter? What if this was taking place to your sister? What if this was taking place to your finest pal? Would you continue to be a part of this witch-hunt?

NDTV: Do you suppose that this has develop into an election problem? Do you suppose that the demise of Sushant is now all about politics?

Rhea Chakraborty: It is actually unhappy that Sushant’s demise has develop into a spectacle. They’re debating, they’re simply destroying his reminiscence. This isn’t the way in which that he must be remembered. That is that not the way in which. He did wonderful issues in his life, not the photographs which are circulating. In case you think about your self a fan of Sushant how are you going to flow into such painful pictures of him on the market. And I perceive that you really want justice for him, so do I. I requested for the CBI inquiry earlier than you. I need to know what occurred between the eighth and the 14th. I requested for the inquiry earlier than you. However does that imply that I’m mistaken? Simply because I used to be his girlfriend, I do not perceive the mentality. I do not perceive the absurdity of it I do not perceive why anybody cannot see via it.

NDTV: What do you suppose killed Sushant Singh?

Rhea Chakraborty: I actually, I actually need to know, I actually need to know that what occurred within the final one week, whether or not it was suicide or whether or not it was one thing else and I’m glad {that a} prime company like CBI is concerned, as a result of there are such a lot of conspiracy theories and so many rumours occurring about this that they are going to lastly be capable to make clear all that.

NDTV: I need to ask you the three predominant prices once more, so it is vitally clear what your stances are. Cost 1, you took cash from Sushant Singh Rajput. He funded your loved ones, that the cash laundering is the true problem right here.

Rhea Chakraborty: Completely not, I didn’t take a single rupee from Sushant. No cash was ever transferred from Sushant to me or any of my relations accounts. We beloved one another, we lived as girlfriend boyfriend and we lived collectively. There have been in all probability a number of issues he purchased me from Zara and so on which are actually within the public area as did I purchase him, however I imply apart from that there was no; our relationship was not a monetary relationship. We have been in love identical to every other regular couple. We reside collectively and that is about it I do not know this has develop into a monetary exploitation angle. And please inform me which gold digger retailers at Zara?

NDTV: Second cost, you poisoned him, you have been controlling his medicine. And his remedy, you narrow him off from his outdated employees. You narrow him off from his outdated buddies.

Rhea Chakraborty: Ma’am, firstly Sushant had 5 medical doctors and he had prescriptions; they have been prescription drugs that he would tackle his personal or ask anybody to provide him if he was too low on a specific day. He had medical doctors visiting him, all the pieces was performed below the supervision, they’re top-notch medical doctors, not some random medical doctors and there have been 4, 5 of them. Secondly, he stopped taking remedy in Jan 2020 at his personal will. If I used to be forcing him, I might haven’t let him cease. Thirdly in June, when he spoke to Dr Kursi Chawla on June third and Dr Kursi Chawla despatched a prescription. Once more, he didn’t take these drugs. And fourthly, poison him? That is essentially the most unhappy and weird and pathetic allegation to make on somebody who beloved somebody. And based mostly on what? Primarily based on what, what is that this based mostly on?

NDTV: Do you suppose Rhea, that the Sushant you knew may have taken his personal life?

Rhea Chakraborty: Ma’am I need to know. I really need justice. If there may be something that is absurd and mistaken and if there may be foul play then I would like justice for Sushant. If that is suicide and what are the causes of that, I would like justice for Sushant. I, that is why I need to know what occurred from the eighth to the 13th whereas his sister Meetu Ji was there, whereas different individuals have been there in the home, what transpired in that week that led to this? Even I need to know. The identical query that each one of India is asking, I’m asking the identical query.

NDTV: However do you suppose that the person you knew may have performed this? There are such a lot of misconceptions about psychological well being. Actually one of many largest casualties is the way in which persons are speaking about psychological well being. Individuals suppose that anyone who appears glad could not do that. Do you suppose he may have performed this?

Rhea Chakraborty: No sadly individuals choose melancholy and nervousness and psychological well being so poorly and so badly that the individual and their help group discover it actually troublesome, as a result of they can not overtly inform individuals. As a result of when he would inform people who he was affected by melancholy they might flip round and say it is your Karma or you might be simply doing this for consideration. Or some garbage like that. So, the individual going to it does really feel very misunderstood and that may be a very huge motive in all probability why individuals in melancholy commit suicide. In Sushant’s case I actually do not perceive why he would do one thing like this. Sure, he was going via melancholy and nervousness. However he was actually combating arduous, and he was getting higher and he was higher many a instances. Sure, his situation had worsened in the course of the lockdown however I actually do not know what occurred in these seven days. Even when he have been to take some step like this, so drastic, there must be a motive and opposite to what individuals consider that somebody who’s depressed will not smile or chuckle, that is not true, that is not true.

NDTV: There are experiences that you could possibly be arrested as quickly as tomorrow. If you’re arrested tomorrow what would you prefer to say at the moment to the people who find themselves watching this? And what would you prefer to say maybe to Sushant’s household?

Rhea Chakraborty: I might ask this household to have some humanity, have some sympathy. Even should you don’t love me do not destroy me and my household. I can’t allow you to win. As a result of I’m talking the reality and the reality will prevail. And I’ll make sure that, regardless that I break each second and also you break each member of my household emotionally and mentally, I’ll struggle until my final breath till the reality comes out.

NDTV: What would you say to all of the media who’re hounding you?

Rhea Chakraborty: I might say, please do not be the judges. Let the legislation enforcement companies do their jobs. Let the individuals being investigated do their job by offering the legislation enforcement companies no matter they want. Think about the Judiciary as I do, and please let me have a good trial. Please do not make this a narrative line that is fully baseless. Please be accountable as a result of that is about my life, and my household’s life and there are 4 individuals concerned on this, me and my three relations. You is likely to be the rationale that their lives get fully destroyed.

NDTV: Are you nervous Rhea about being arrested?

Rhea Chakraborty: No, I am not, I have never performed something, why ought to I be arrested? I’m cooperating with all of the investigative companies.

NDTV: What would you say lastly to all of the people who find themselves watching this?

Rhea Chakraborty: I might say that there are at all times two sides to a narrative, you could have been listening to one narrative and one story for the final a number of months. Please try to see the practicality and the logic of what I’m saying. Please perceive that there could possibly be no motive for me to do one thing like this. I completely beloved and am discovering it troublesome to reside with out. Please try to see via all of the pretend information and all of the drama that is occurring in all of the circus they’ve created by destroying anyone’s demise and making it a really bizarre weird scenario. And please try to have some coronary heart to see what me and household are going via could be very unfair.

NDTV: Rhea thanks very a lot for chatting with NDTV, and thanks for chatting with us reside.