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Kritika Choudhary, the 25-year-old small-time actress from Haridwar, who was found mysteriously dead in her Andheri apartment on Monday evening, was addicted to drugs. She had also attempted suicide on several occasions in the past, including a time when she climbed atop a building, and threatened to jump, said a former colleague and friend of the actor.
The female friend, who did not wish to be named as her family was against her liaising with Choudhary owing to her drug habits, stated that the actor had a troubled relationship with her former husband, a colleague from Delhi. Choudhary met the man while she was working with a cell phone network service provider in Delhi, and soon, the two fell in love, and decided to tie the knot.
However, Choudhary learnt that the man was already married to another woman, and after his divorce proceedings were cleared, Choudhary got married to him, and moved to Mumbai around five to six years ago. Here, they lived together in an apartment in Andheri. However, Choudhary soon realised that her husband was cheating on her. She decided to end the relationship, and is said to have approached the local police with a complaint against him.
The woman, upon learning about Choudhary’s addictions, confronted her, and asked her to quit since it would affect her physical and mental well-being as well as her career. However, the model did not seem to relent.
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“Her drug habit was out of hand. She would call some number, and get the drugs delivered to her apartment. I had tried to convince her to quit on many occasions. I counselled her even when she accompanied me to Delhi for my brother’s wedding. She would say she has quit, but every time I bumped into her after such a promise, I would find her high and unstable.”
“She didn’t share much, except for the brawl with her husband. Even that she revealed after several months of knowing me, when I probed if she wasn’t scared of living alone in Mumbai. She never mentioned any friends, or boyfriend. Her latest Whatsapp profile picture, I’m told, is of hers with three other girls. I think it’s from her birthday celebrations on June 5.”
The woman stated that she learnt about Choudhary’s death when sleuths from the Mumbai crime branch turned up at her door on Monday evening, inquiring about the actress. They told her that Choudhary had listed her as a referee in the leave and license agreement of her apartment at Four Bungalows in Andheri (West), and that she would be required for investigations.
The woman also called the agent, who told her that Choudhary had asked him to list the source as a reference since the woman was her ‘didi.’
The woman stated that she last saw Choudhary one-and-a-half years ago when she bumped into her accidentally. Choudhary told the woman then that she was pursuing a course in direction.
(Puja Changoiwala is a journalist, and author of the critically-acclaimed true crime book, ‘The Front Page Murders.’)
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