Rhea Chakraborty Recalls Being In Solitary Confinement After Sushant Singh Rajput's Death: 'I Was In Jail...'
Rhea Chakraborty said she spread awareness about mental health in jail.
Rhea Chakraborty recently sat down with Honey Singh for a candid conversation for her podcast. The duo opened up about their mental health struggles and Honey Singh addressed his bipolar disorder. Expressing concern for the singer, Rhea mentioned that she has seen the disorder closely. She also recalled how she used to talk about mental health when she was in jail.
Rhea said, “People don’t understand bipolar disorder. People either call (patients) crazy or think they have been possessed. When I was in jail, there was something called suicide watch… It’s for people involved in media-sensitive cases. This is mostly to keep a watch on the person so that they don’t take any extreme steps. Now, because I was in solitary confinement, I could only speak to these two ladies who were watching me. During that time, I spoke a lot about mental health to them."
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She added, “For about 15 days, I spoke a lot about mental health, and I was trying to understand things, given whatever was happening in my life. Around the 16th day, one of those two ladies told me, ‘I am going to my village. All this while people used to tie my husband to a Peepal tree because they believed he was possessed. But after listening to you, it seems like my husband must be suffering from the same thing.’"
“She thanked me for making her understand. She came to meet me on my bail day and said, ‘You were right, he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder.’ Sometimes, I think the whole purpose of me being in jail at that time was to save that man. It is very necessary to understand the illness," Rhea mentioned.
For the unversed, Rhea Chakraborty was arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau in September 2020 on drug-related charges. The case was connected to the death of her ex-boyfriend, actor Sushant Singh Rajput. He died by suicide in June 2020.
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