Actress Rhea Chakraborty, who was accused for abetting then-boyfriend, Sushant Singh Rajput's suicide, revealed how her life collapsed post the actor's death and amid the scrutiny that followed. Both Rhea and her brother Showik Chakraborty were jailed during the investigation, and the actress said that their careers ended because of it.
"When we went through the tragedy that we went through, we both lost our careers. I stopped getting any acting work and Showik had got 96 percentile in CAT, but that’s the same time that he got arrested. When he came back out, the first trimester was already lost and so was his MBA career his future planning," Rhea told CNBC TV18.
"Getting a job for Showik afterwards in any corporate was very difficult. No one wanted to hire someone who had so much media scandal around them," she added.
"For a while, we weren’t sure where our lives are going to go. Like, what’s next? We had our healing process," she said, adding that it was then that the idea of launching a clothing brand, Chapter 2 Drip, occurred to her and Showik, and they decided to go for it.
Rhea and Showik were eventually given a clean chit in the Sushant Singh Rajput case.
While Showik has been staying away from the public eye, Rhea has got back to work, and she was recently seen in Roadies. She has also launched her own podcast, wherein she interviewed celebs like Aamir Khan, Sushmita Sen, Farhan Akhtar, Honey Singh, and others.
