Actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s career is going great guns and the lucky woman to see him rise was his long-time girlfriend Ankita Lokhande. However, the couple are now said to have split just when we were expecting them to tie the knot this year. A close friend of the couple reveals the real reason behind the split, which has devastated them, both, in an article in Mumbai Mirror.
“For him she was his girl and he liked holding her hand on the red carpet knowing it made her feel special. But despite his attention and her best intentions, Ankita admitted she wasn’t happy. It broke her heart, and his too, but there’s little they could do about it. If you are claustrophobic, you will always feel uneasy in an aircraft no matter how much you pep yourself up,” the friend revealed.
“She knew he was not cheating on her. In fact, a few days ago, when Sushant went to Cape Town for three days for a shoot with two girls, he surprised her by asking her to accompany him. She was the only woman in his life for six years, he was happy if she was happy and vice versa,” he asserts. But that wasn’t enough for Ankita, who was always afraid that the relationship wouldn’t work out. No matter how hard Sushant tried, she was plainly insecure in the relationship, afraid that it wouldn’t work out.
The friend points out that Sushant did his best to reassure her. He even went down on his knees and proposed on national TV when they were competing in the dance reality show Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa in 2011. In 2014, he whisked her off to Dubai to bring in the New Year and last year, got them their dream house.
“He has been urging her since last year to get back to work. She’s a natural actress and dancer and he wasn’t happy that she’d quit on her passion to make him the focal point of her existence. It wasn’t to earn money, he was capable of supporting both of them in style, but because he knew that her self-worth two years from now would be moulded by what she was doing today,” reasons the friend. After the break-up Ankita has been talking about picking up the reins of her career.