Mumbai: After the fury over its ‘Deepika Padukone cleavage’ story, came a new low from the same national daily. A news article about the friendship between Mehr Jesia and Sussanne Khan going down the drain because of Arjun’s alleged relationship with the latter is now doing the rounds.
A fuming Sussanne Khan released a statement saying, “It is with great disappointment I have read Meena Iyer’s article today, titled, “Is Arjun to blame for the Mehr-Sussanne friendship taking a severe beating. This piece is an example of speculation and rumour mongering. Not the slightest effort was made to reach me to ask for my inputs into an article that deals with my life. Arjun and Mehr are friends and have been for years. To poison a relationship such as this is malicious behaviour. I have, with Mehr, earlier stated in the same paper that there is no truth to the claim that Arjun and I are anything more than friends. I have begun a new phase in my life with hopes and expectations. As I work to establish and grow my work I am fully concentrated on my career. Today, my time and energy is completely consumed by my children and my work. My family, who have been beyond supportive, are now the foundation of my life. I never was and am not an idle Bollywood wife who has all the time in the world to spread lies that damage relationships and lives. My heart goes out to Arjun and Mehr who are needlessly being drawn into this. I appeal to all responsible members of the press to look at this in a fair manner. (sic)”
And this hasn’t gone down well with both Arjun and Sussanne’s ex-husband Hrithik. A still concerned Hrithik tweeted, “If u people knew hw much false news is printed, d papers wud actually stop selling. I am disgusted 2day..”.
But Arjun seemed to be very angry as he kept tweeting and retweeting his followers’ tweets continuously, and said, “Bombay Times, who paid you? Who are these faceless accusers? If you have the guts reveal them first. Stay away from me and my family.”
