I stopped Jiah Khan from killing herself earlier: Suraj Pancholi

After first facing accusations that he drove his ex-girlfriend Jiah Khan to suicide and then spending over 20 days in jail, Suraj Pancholi says he’s still very much still in love with her and he’s innocent of everything he has been accused of. In a detailed interview with the Bombay Times, Pancholi paints a picture of a depressed, distrustful and posssessive Nafisa alias Jiah Khan that is now a familiar narrative. Pancholi says that he had met Nafisa over Facebook and it was her attempt at suicide and his nursing her back to health that brought her back from the brink. As for Khan’s mother’s claims that he had driven Jiah to suicide, Pancholi believes he is the reason she hadn’t committed suicide earlier. He said:

I know that she would not want me to go through this. If the mother blames me, I should tell her that I did not take her life. In fact, I gave her extension of life by 10 months. Had I not been there in her life, she would have tried this and succeeded earlier

The upcoming actor said that he had to constantly deal with her inability to trust him and says she would cry “every night during the seven months we were seeing each other” and had a “depression problem” for which she had undergone counselling. [caption id=“attachment_978769” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  Suraj Pancholi says he did everything he could to help Jiah Khan. AFP[/caption] Jiah Khan in a letter written before her death had accused Pancholi of partying, womanising and abuse, but the actor makes no mention of those accusations at any point during the interview. Accused of forcing Jiah into performing an abortion, Pancholi claims that one day she came to him saying her menstrual cycle and he just took her to a doctor where she was given a pill. “We went back home and everything was normal. When the police asked her family doctor if I was there at the time of abortion, they denied it,” he said, adding that he had told the police he wasn’t aware of a pregnancy. [embedalsosee] The actor claims that he was told by Jiah’s mother not to “be involved” with her daughter and says he was “tired of her daily crying and distrusting me”, which resulted in him reducing the time he spent with her. Pancholi says he had met Jiah before she was scheduled to travel to Hyderabad and refused to meet her the next day even after she called him asking to meet. The actor spent over 20 days in jail after being arrested on 10 June and spent time in a police lockup and Mumbai’s Arthur Road jail before finally getting bail on 1 July. But according to Pancholi, he never felt any guilt. “I had no fear or guilt and in my heart I knew that just because we had broken up, it could not be considered wrong. I used to help her and have saved her life a couple of times before, so I knew I would get out,” he said. And despite all that he’s gone through, Pancholi says he’s still loves her and says that even the “five percent anger” he had earlier has gone away. You can read the complete Bombay Times interview here.