I guess Deepika acting like a bitter ex washing the dirty linen in public had a lot to do with it. Implying he cheated multiple times on public has given validation to the rumours. But one makes you think whether this would have happened to another star in 90s? Salman admitted to cheating on Sangeeta when their marriage was fixed, but you'll never see any ex daring to tarnish his image like this. He apparently did much worse things to Ash.
I kinda feel bad for Ranbir as he's still have cordial relationship with Deepika despite her going public. Can't think of anyone calling out Khans like this even in their earlier days without repercussions let alone keeping a cordial relationship. I saw him talking about a particular set of fans hating him after KWK(Sonam/Deepika?) and having to win them over with his performances in coming years so I think he's concerned about this too.
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