Curated By: Chirag Sehgal
Last Updated: October 26, 2023, 17:56 IST
Rhea Chakraborty and Sushant Singh Rajput were dating at the time of latter’s death. (Photo: Instagram)
Rhea Chakraborty was arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau in September 2020, months after Sushant Singh Rajput’s death.
Rhea Chakraborty’s life took a drastic turn after Sushant Singh Rajput was found hanging in his Mumbai apartment in June 2020. The two were dating at the time of the latter’s death. Rhea was arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau and had to spend 28 days in prison. Now, years after, during a recent event, Rhea opened up about the time she spent in jail and revealed how she met some of the happiest people there.
“So you are basically removed from society and put as a number in prison because you are deemed unfit for society. So there itself, this personality or these things you’ve created about yourself are completely broken. I was in an under-trial prison, which means it’s not a convicted prison, and unfortunately, all the women over there were still innocent because they were not proven guilty. Seeing them and interacting with them, I experienced a unique kind of love and resilience within those women. They found happiness in small things. They grabbed happiness when they got it. They know how to enjoy a moment, and they are some of the happiest people I have met,” Rhea said.
The actress, who was recently seen in Roadies, went on to call her jail experience ‘frustrating’ but shared that people in prison try to find happiness in little things. “It’s frustrating; they’re languishing, but they know when and how to catch that happiness. And it can be as small as a samosa on a Sunday. It can be as small as somebody dancing for them. So it’s just perspective; it’s how you look at it,” she said.
“At that point, yes, my life was in the worst hell it could have been. But heaven or hell is a choice in your head that you can make. It’s difficult to choose heaven each time. But the battle is of the mind, and if you have the strength and desire in your heart, you’ll most definitely battle the mind and win,” Rhea concluded.
For the unversed, Rhea Chakraborty was arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau in September 2020 after they found some chats with alleged drug peddlers on her WhatsApp. She was granted bail later, but had restrictions on her travel for a long time.
