On of Bollywood's biggest scandals last year was the controversy that took place between ex co-stars Hrithik Roshanand Kangana Ranaut. This will most definitely go down in history as one of the worst public spatsto have happened in Bollywood. It all started when Kangana called Hrithik her silly ex, and the latter couldn't take that sitting down. He alleged that Kangana was imagining things and that an imposter was exchanging emails with her under the pretext of being Roshan. Legal battles were fought, PR teams were functioning on overdrive, lawyers were giving out statements, until one fine day, when this suddenly died down.
It's been a while now, and while Hrithik has steered clear of talking about this controversy, Kangana spoke about the incident with India Today. Here are excerpts.
"There were instances when he (Hrithik) was going and crying to the entire industry, wanting them to sabotage my career, and people were calling me and saying - He met us, he has showed us proofs and (do you) want to meet us because we want to know your side of the story as well?' But I was like, it is none of your business."
She also spoke of when she was threatened.
"The threats were quite open, weren't they? They said they would release some statements, they would reveal something, say something... We will expose her and everyone will be shocked'... something along those lines... It is not that I knew this sort of game plan that would be unleashed against me. So I thought there would be some reveal but there was none and obviously those were just threats."
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When Kangana was asked if the case was indeed shut, she said, "Of course, there was no case only. It was all so absurd... actually I couldn't understand what the entire matter was. So there is someone who is in love with me but he wants to impersonate Hrithik. But I in return want to stalk Hrithik, Hrithik in return wants an apology [laughs]. He is basically not after the person who is impersonating him, he is after me. Apparently, he wants an apology (from me) because someone is impersonating him and romancing me, whereas I am meeting him every day on the sets and he is my friend regardless. I frankly did not get this. And apparently, all this happened in my head. It was in my head, but the impersonator was a real person. But then, I also imagined things and through those imaginations, I also managed to harass this person who eventually did not decide to ever speak to me about this matter - the only thing he decided to do is have a court case against me!"
She added, "It was very absurd for me to digest any of this and I always knew that all this is just sensationalism... And then two to three more people dived in with their comments about 'bi**c, wh**e, mixing of blood'... all of this led to too much excitement. When that excitement subsided then people wanted to know - 'Hello, what is this story?' This story will not make sense in any time and age."
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