Rhea Chakraborty shares her experience of staying in jail

Rhea Chakraborty was detained after ex-boyfriend Sushant Singh Rajput’s death; she shared she started teaching yoga and dance to other women while in jail.

In 2020, Rhea Chakraborty was arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) in a drug-related case. During a recent podcast hosted by Karishma Mehta, the actor-model shared her experience of staying inside the jail, saying that each day in jail felt like a year. She pointed out that it was a difficult time and that she experienced “a deep depression and darkness.”

Rhea Chakraborty talked about her experiences living in a jail.

On the podcast, she shared, “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 under trial prison… It’s a strange world; it’s a very evolved crowd. Because it’s just human emotion at its basic rawest. 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. There it is paused.”

She talks about deep depression and darkness.

She added, “My time in there was actually really difficult in the first two weeks to kind of adjust to this situation because no one ever believes that they are going to jail. Once you are in there, it takes a long time to understand that this has happened. There is a deep depression and darkness that I obviously experienced…You are really thinking negative thoughts now. I’ve always been a very bubbly, positive person, like delusionally optimistic.”

Helping other women in jail.

Rhea recalled a moment that helped her find light in the darkness. She recalled how some of the women in jail had no hope of their lives and had given up. So, she thought of giving them “a bit of me” by teaching them yoga, dance, and poems to children.

Rhea Chakraborty was the girlfriend of late actor Sushant Singh Rajput, who was found dead on June 14, 2020, at his Bandra apartment. An alleged abetment to suicide case was registered against Rhea by Sushant’s family. In September 2020, she was arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) in a drug-related case that surfaced during Sushant’s death probe.