After Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s death, his ex-girlfriend TV actor Ankita Lokhande stood by his family to find the truth behind his sudden demise. The couple dated for several years before calling it quits.
In a recent interview, the acclaimed television actor who rose to fame through the daily show ‘Pavitra Rishta’ opened up about her relationship with Sushant. She revealed how she struggled for two-and-a-half years after Sushant choose his career over her.
“People come and tell me ‘You left Sushant’. How do you know that? Nobody knows about my thing, you know. I am not blaming anyone here. Sushant, he made his choice very clear. He wanted to go on with his career.”
“He chose his career and moved on. But for two-and-a-half years, I was dealing with so many things,” DNA quoted her saying.
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She added that during that tough phase it was her family who stood by her.
“I was not in that state of mind where I could just work. I am not the sort of a person who can easily move on and get busy with work. So you know for me it was very difficult. My family stood by me.”
“My life was just finished. I was just finished. I did not know what to do after that. I still am not blaming anyone. He chose his ways. But my ways were different. I was craving love, emotions, and all that. I gave him full right that ‘It’s your life, you can go on’.”
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She even gave up on films with Farah Khan and Shah Rukh Khan to support Sushant.
“I gave up on many things. I gave up on ‘Happy New Year’. I remember Farah ma’am offered me the film and I met Shah Rukh sir also. He was like, ‘I will try to give you the best debut.’ And I was like, okay, but at the back of my mind, I was in Macau.”
“Me, Sushant, and Shah Rukh, were sitting, and I was like ‘God, I hope I don’t get it.’ When it comes to women, they always think that: ‘No yaar, I wish the best for my partner’. Till today, I have no regrets. I was trying to build a man and I did that, you know, quietly I was trying to be a very strong support for Sushant.”
Ankita was among the many well-wishers who were shaken by Sushant’s death. Going by her statements it seems she cared for him more than herself.