‘Rajesh Khanna would cry all day long in the final year of his life, manifested his death,’ says alleged girlfriend Anita Advani

“He had an offer of Rs 150 crore when he was not keeping well but he refused to sell it. He said ‘I want to turn this into a museum’. He wanted that museum to go on for 100 years,” she said and recalled, “When the house was demolished, I died along with it.”

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In a 2013 interview with Rediff, Anita said that one year before his death, his wife Dimple Kapadia and his daughters, Twinkle and Rinke, started visiting him regularly. “They would spend a couple of hours there. If I was out, they would call me and ask me when I would be returning so that they could leave. When they came, I took care of them. I would tell them where his things were kept. Dimple didn’t even know who all came to the house to see him. I would tell her, and we were like friends. I was happy that his family had come to him. It was difficult for one person to take a decision since he was sick, so I would consult with them too. I was very scared that his health was deteriorating. Anju Mahendroo (Rajesh’s ex-girlfriend) would also sit with him once in a while. We bonded very well,” she said.

She added, “The doctors had told us that he could go any time. He had become very weak, he had started hallucinating, and couldn’t understand things.”