What if Rhea is innocent??

TRIGGER WARNING- Please don't read if you are against mental illness angle or hate Rhea C.

What if rhea is innocent. There are a lot of mental gymnastics needed to understand rheas actions. Sushants family in FIR have said she didn't want him to do organic farming because that would mean he wouldn't be earning and pay her bills and in the same FIR they have alleged she was drugging him apparently due to which his Bollywood career was tanking. Why would rhea incapacitate him when Sushant wanted to marry her and after marriage everything is 50/50. Why dupe him of paltry 15 crores when she can get much larger pie and also get enough exposure with a successful star for life. Theres an interview during chichore promotions where guy asks all the cast who out of them can spend over a crore on his partner for a gift. Sushant confidently said he hasn't but intends to for his partner very soon. He obviously meant Rhea.

I can understand Rhea being a gold digger but this drugging him, isolating him from family,harassing him seems a little bit of figment of imagination. Don't Indian parents have similar complaints with new DILs who according to parents are after the sons money and don't let him maintain close relations with the family. I have heard enough stories like this.

Which brings me to the bigger trigger warning part.

The simplest explanation for everything seems Sushant fell in unipolar depression or manic depression 2018-19 period around which he met Rhea. (Another ex Kriti hinted towards his mental illness part).

He isolated from family since mental illnesses can make u isolated from family/friends due to guilt. He did not want to share his diagnosis with everyone including family since he seemed like a guy who didn't share much with family in order to not disturb them. He fell off track from work since depression can sap one of energy to work. Given he was hospitalized last year it seems he was either suicidal or possibly had manic depression with a manic episode which guarantees hospitalization. Generally depression patients aren't hospitalized unless they have suicidal ideations or have some other emergency mental illness along with it. needing medical attention. Rhea was managing everything for him since clearly she was one of the only ones who knew the diagnosis and if someone is suicidal psychiatrist would ask the close ones to always keep a close watch. Her family was staying with him since they knew the diagnosis and he needed to be looked after.

Why Rhea didn't tell family because Sushant didn't want to tell his own family. I have had depression in past to point of being passively suicidal and I never told my family though my partner knew. Depression/bipolar don't exclude intelligent people. On the contrary high intelligence and mental illness are proven to be linked. Albert Einstein had periods of high creativity followed by deep despair which in todays world would be classified as bipolar and one of his son had diagnosed bipolar. Bipolar with hypomania meaning when one is not manic to a crazy level but has high energy makes for periods of high creativity.

Bipolar is linked with creativity and some highly successful people in the world have bipolar/depression.Sushant was a huge fan of Van Gogh. He had his portrait in his house and had his twitter page with his painting. Van Gogh committed suicide at age 37. He was brilliant man who was bipolar. He was a failure in his life who became famous after suicide. I have a hunch Sushant was a fan because he could relate to that . Paranoia which an article described he had towards the end can be present during manic episode. His changing numbers multiple times ,haunted house theories, having paranoia of Anurag Kashyap wanting to kill him can all be explained by manic episode in bipolar. Theres also classic history of manic patient doing impulsive buying which may explain huge spendings in a small period of time that family is accusing Rhea of. I know its a hard sell for laymen to accept illness like depression and bipolar. Esp bipolar since no Indian celebrity has ever talked about bipolar except Honey Singh. But suicide by all means is an act of insanity even if momentarily and seems like Sushant was suffering from it. Rhea unfortunately did not understand the extent to which he needed support since one person can't manage everything esp with lockdown. Lockdown made even normal people go frustrated so someone battling a mental health problem would be so much worse. Sushant could not survive the lockdown and sadly we lost a gem.

Her actions since the death of SSR telling loudly that she is not innocent. She may be a Mohra of some other mastermind but not innocent that is sure.

Could be she's guilty. But if I put myself in her position I would be scared too. She broke up with him and he committed suicide. Now the whole of the country is behind her. She may be guilty but even an innocent person in her position would be doing what she's doing right now.

To me she just looked more shady than guilty...I never actually doubted that Sushant was depressed or this was not a suicide. However the way Mumbai Police handled this case and how Rhea has been so shady all throughout, kind of made me believe that sure it could be a suicide, but something is at miss. There is much more to it. WHat...probably we would never know..the only one who could have told us is no more..

Yeah I understand how shady her actions look in retrospect. But they can all be explained by something less sinister. Hopefully the case reaches a closure either way.

I agree. I feel like we shouldn't be holding judgements till the time that a proper investigation is done. This is literally a witch hunt, we have just shifted focus from Karan and Aliaa to Rhea.

Infact, I felt that Ankita's bytes however well intentioned are wrong- he was intelligent, smart, happy and couldn't be depressed. That is THE ARGUMENT about mental illness, it can happen to anyone and you can have the entire world at your feet but still go through depression. I feel like the whole mental health discussion has gone 10 years back since a month.

Originally posted by: n6500

I agree. I feel like we shouldn't be holding judgements till the time that a proper investigation is done. This is literally a witch hunt, we have just shifted focus from Karan and Aliaa to Rhea.

Yes witch hunt is what this is. Media is fueling all sorts of nonsense in their 24/7 news cycle which most people are enjoying except for the accused. Cant imagine how harrowing it might be to lose a bf, and also become the most hated woman in India in such a short time.

Thanks for this thread. Forum was getting too one-sided with the witch hunt against Rhea.

There is a part of my mind that thinks she could be totally innocent, which is why I am not jumping to conclusions. But she may also not be that innocent too. Important to view this from all angles.

Like you said, and without putting out too much information about myself in public domain, I have had some personal and professional struggles, which I only told my partner, but not my family members. And when I was acting differently, my parents would blame my partner, saying that my partner was influencing my behaviour, which was not the case at all.

This is why I said in one of the other threads, that anything wrong with your child, you instantly blame the ones they are surrounded by, often not realizing that the problem could be with your child themselves, and the person they are blaming could actually be supporting your child through the process........... Now, I am not saying this is what Rhea was doing, but it sounds plausible.

I am sure Rhea is the one who knows about Sushant more than anyone else in this case. She was living with him for the last one year.

Not to forget she is already undergoing a trauma. Imagine, someone you love and have been living with, opened a company with (which to me suggests, that they had long term plans)... and they suddenly kill themselves? They would be shaken to the core. And on top of this all the disgusting things being written about her without any basis, all the death and rape threats. What must it be doing to her? What if she's innocent? This is criminal, and a grave injustice if there is even a 1% possibility that she's innocent. You love Sushant, and he loved Rhea. Do you think he would want you to make her life hell, without even knowing the whole truth?

Originally posted by: ponymo

Thanks for this thread. Forum was getting too one-sided with the witch hunt against Rhea.

There is a part of my mind that thinks she could be totally innocent, which is why I am not jumping to conclusions. But she may also not be that innocent too. Important to view this from all angles.

Like you said, and without putting out too much information about myself in public domain, I have had some personal and professional struggles, which I only told my partner, but not my family members. And when I was acting differently, my parents would blame my partner, saying that my partner was influencing my behaviour, which was not the case at all.

This is why I said in one of the other threads, that anything wrong with your child, you instantly blame the ones they are surrounded by, often not realizing that the problem could be with your child themselves, and the person they are blaming could actually be supporting your child through the process........... Now, I am not saying this is what Rhea was doing, but it sounds plausible.

I am sure Rhea is the one who knows about Sushant more than anyone else in this case. She was living with him for the last one year.

Not to forget she is already undergoing a trauma. Imagine, someone you love and have been living with, opened a company with (which to me suggests, that they had long term plans)... and they suddenly kill themselves? They would be shaken to the core. And on top of this all the disgusting things being written about her without any basis, all the death and rape threats. What must it be doing to her? What if she's innocent? This is criminal, and a grave injustice if there is even a 1% possibility that she's innocent. You love Sushant, and he loved Rhea. Do you think he would want you to make her life hell, without even knowing the whole truth?

Thats the part I find ironic. What if she's innocent and everyone including his loved ones are haunting the one person who stood by him the most. What if it wasn't the witch who killed him she was the one who was saving him for so long. How will that feel for his loved ones. She was the last person he called...

I have had a moment in my own life when I felt actively suicidal to the point I had to call suicide prevention number. This was after I had a fight with my partner. The one thought that scared me the most was the legal problem which can happen to my partner if I commit suicide. Suicide is messy for the ones left behind emotionally and legally.

I also feel with all tamasha how does this look for people whose partners have clinical depression or some mental illness. This is stigmatizing mental illness to the such a level. Mental illness have the component of self blame and guilt already. We don't need this extra burden added.

Originally posted by: ponymo

Thanks for this thread. Forum was getting too one-sided with the witch hunt against Rhea.

There is a part of my mind that thinks she could be totally innocent, which is why I am not jumping to conclusions. But she may also not be that innocent too. Important to view this from all angles.

Like you said, and without putting out too much information about myself in public domain, I have had some personal and professional struggles, which I only told my partner, but not my family members. And when I was acting differently, my parents would blame my partner, saying that my partner was influencing my behaviour, which was not the case at all.

This is why I said in one of the other threads, that anything wrong with your child, you instantly blame the ones they are surrounded by, often not realizing that the problem could be with your child themselves, and the person they are blaming could actually be supporting your child through the process........... Now, I am not saying this is what Rhea was doing, but it sounds plausible.

I am sure Rhea is the one who knows about Sushant more than anyone else in this case. She was living with him for the last one year.

Not to forget she is already undergoing a trauma. Imagine, someone you love and have been living with, opened a company with (which to me suggests, that they had long term plans)... and they suddenly kill themselves? They would be shaken to the core. And on top of this all the disgusting things being written about her without any basis, all the death and rape threats. What must it be doing to her? What if she's innocent? This is criminal, and a grave injustice if there is even a 1% possibility that she's innocent. You love Sushant, and he loved Rhea. Do you think he would want you to make her life hell, without even knowing the whole truth?

I have fangirl'd over this boy for almost 12 years of my life. It's a long time. His family members are simple , non attention seeking , who never ever basked in his fame & glory . I will stand by his family even if they lose the case. I know how much Sushant loved his sisters - one like his mom coz she was much older than him. Another like a friend - she is the closest to him. Oh yes. Even Mahesh Shetty - his bff of 13 years. Another guy who Sushant adored. He is standing by Sushant's family. I will do the same.