Rashami Desai gets candid about her strained bond with Sidharth Shukla, says 'We didn’t talk to each other for 9 months, our differences were so strong'

Rashami Desai has been a popular figure on Indian television for the past two decades. Even though she has been gone from the small screen for some time, Rashami has been exploring regional filmmaking, most recently appearing in the Gujarati film Mom Tane Nahi Samjay. Rashami was recently featured on Bharti Singh's podcast, where she opened up about some difficult times in her life. She also spoke about the late Sidharth Shukla, explaining how they did not get along when working on Dil Se Dil Tak.

Rashami Desai was candid about her bond with Sidharth Shukla, “I have worked with Siddharth and have had a very different experience. People have seen us in a very different light on Bigg Boss, we used to fight because I have a history with Sidharth Shukla. It had just gotten very bitter, in the 1.5 to 2 years that we worked together, there had been so many differences that we would not speak to each other. We didn’t talk to each other for 9 months, our differences were so strong, that we could not see each other’s faces. But when we worked, both of us were very professional.”

She further recalled her bittersweet bond with him during Bigg Boss 13, “Sidharth was a wonderful and very knowledgeable co-actor I have worked with. He had a good heart too. Unfortunately, 2018 was not a very good phase that I had gone through. I saw a lot of ups and downs and he knew about it. So when on Bigg Boss we had a family week and he came to give me water, only he knew what I was going through. We would communicate through our eyes, it was a very unsaid equation between us which I also respected. My niece used to love him and would always go to meet him first on the set, he would also play with her. He used to love kids. Even though there were differences between us, I wouldn’t stop them from interacting.”

Rashami shared she was going through a rough patch and only Sidharth knew about it in Bigg Boss, “Professionally we have had our issues, personally also we had a history that I didn’t speak about back then and neither will I talk about it now. I respect that, and now that he isn’t around, it also doesn’t make sense. Just because we didn’t get along does not mean he was a bad person, there was a phase in my life where I couldn’t do anything.”

Rashami shared how she didn't want to discuss about her bad phase earlier, “I had to go through a lot of things and handle them myself, I never told anyone that I was going through so much. I never understood the Bigg Boss format, I purely did the show for money. Because I badly needed money at that time, I am very glad that I did Bigg Boss, because there were some chapters of my life which would have either gotten torn or the book would have been left incomplete and ugly, and I wouldn’t have been around. I am glad I decided to do Bigg Boss. 2018, 2019, and 2020 were such years of my life where I couldn’t say or understand what was happening to me.”

An emotional Rashami also stated that she would wonder why God was testing her so much at the time, but she quickly recovered. Rashami is now in a better position, trying to advance professionally while also producing some truly wonderful art.