Pratyusha Banerjee Was Not Depressed: Her Friends

Her close friends and co-workers like Kamya Punjabi, Vikas Gupta and Adaa Khan in a conversation with the media here, opened up about possible reasons behind the demise of Pratyusha, who was found hanging from a ceiling fan at her residence here on Friday.

Several fingers have been pointed towards Pratyusha’s tumultuous relationship with her boyfriend Rahul Raj Singh as one of the key reasons.

TV show producer Vikas Gupta, who had recently offered a role to Pratyusha, shared she was not at all in depression.

“She was doing very well professionally. She had no shortage of work she had earned a lot of money and her money was taken care of by Rahul. She was not in depression at all. The only problem was she was in a disturbed relationship,” Gupta said at a press meet here.

One of Pratyusha’s close friend Leena too was present at the meet, and said the 24-year-old actress had called her the night before the day she took the drastic step. Leena disclosed that Pratyusha was disturbed by Singh’s former girlfriend.

“Prior to the day she committed suicide, she called me at 3 a.m., and she was crying very badly. She said, ‘I can’t live my life like this, and I want to come out of it’. She said she wants to fight back and wanted to come out of it. She just wanted to get married to Rahul and have a child, this was her plan,” Leena said.

The Balika Vadhu star’s closest friend and actress Kamya Punjabi asserted that Singh was cheating on her.

“Pratyusha had told me, ‘Rahul is cheating on me, what should I do?’ She didn’t want to give up on this relationship and wanted this to work,” Kamya said.

It has been reported that Pratyusha’s post-mortem report has hinted at signs of early pregnancy. But nothing has been confirmed yet.