THE OTHER SIDE

After being hounded for two months, Rhea Chakraborty finally breaks her silence in a point-by-point rebuttal of the allegations against her

- SUHANI SINGH AND KIRAN D. TARE

The Sushant Singh Rajput story has been told and retold by many—his cook, his creative content manager, an ex-girlfriend who had not spoken to him in four years, a supposed best friend whose call records reveal he hadn’t spoken to the actor in over a year, former staff, an actress whom he never worked with, his family through videos and Instagram posts, not to forget the media, only too eager with intimate details sourced from the Mumbai Police, the Enforcement Directorate and the Central Bureau of Investigation. But in his last year, very few knew the 34-year-old actor better than Rhea Chakraborty, his girlfriend since April 2019. In an exclusive interview to India Today TV, the actress broke her silence on the various allegations made against her in the 73 days since the actor’s death on June 14, heeding what she described as Rajput’s call in her dreams to “speak the truth” about their relationship. The details divulged by Rhea during her chat with Consulting Editor Rajdeep Sardesai, which lasted over 90 minutes, seemed to come from a woman shattered by sudden loss but putting up a brave front in a storm of accusations hurled at her over the course of two months.