Rhea Chakraborty Opens Up About Life Behind Bars After Sushant Singh Rajput’s Death: ‘There Was Deep Depression’

Rhea Chakraborty found herself in a tight spot when Sushant Singh Rajput, her boyfriend at the time, was found dead in his Mumbai flat. After the suspicious death of SSR, the police conducted an intense investigation, grilling Chakraborty. During a recent podcast with Karishma Mehta, Rhea opened up about her harrowing experience in jail after she was arrested by the NCB in a drug-related case following SSR’s death. The actress described how each day inside jail felt like a year.
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The Jalebi actress shared that it was a difficult time for her, and she experienced “a deep depression and darkness.” Rhea said, “Jail is actually a very different world because there’s no society in jail. There is a weird sense of equality. Everyone is a number; they are not a person. You are a UT number when you are in undertrial prison…It’s a strange world, it’s a very evolved crowd because it’s just human emotion at its most basic and raw. It’s survival. You have to survive each day, and each day feels like a year. It takes a long time for a day to finish because you’re literally doing nothing. Time there is paused.”
Rhea Talks About Depression
“My time in there was really difficult, especially in the first two weeks, trying to adjust to the situation because no one ever believes they will go to jail. Once you’re in there, it takes a long time to accept that this has happened. There is a deep depression and darkness that I obviously experienced… You start having really negative thoughts. I’ve always been a very bubbly, positive person, almost delusionally optimistic,” she added.
Rhea also recalled the moment she discovered light after a period of darkness. Reflecting on the women she encountered in jail, she noted that many had lost hope and given up on life. To uplift them, she decided to share ‘a piece of herself’ by teaching yoga, leading dance classes, and reciting poems to the children.