Q. So what was all that about you and Hrithik Roshan?

A. I read what he had to say in your interview. It was very well put. It was all so strange. I was out of the country. When I came back, everyone started questioning me about it. I was very shocked. Hrithik is committed elsewhere. He’s a very sensible boy. He’d never slip up. Please! Suzanne knows me too well. She knows exactly the kind of person I am. Why would I want another woman’s man, and that too a woman I like and respect? That way, I’m very selfish. I want a man I can keep for myself. And I won’t share my man with anybody.

Q. What was that about the two of you coochie-cooing in a plane?

A. Precisely. What was that? Do they think I’m so stupid to do something like this publicly? And the timing, on the day of Hrithik’s wedding, was in very bad taste. If it had come earlier, one could laugh it off as idle gossip.

Q. So it’s all untrue?

A. Once and for all, there’s nothing between me and Hrithik except good, clean friendship. There cannot be anything else between us. He’s attached elsewhere, and I refuse to share my man with another woman. He’s happily married now. And I’m not a homebreaker. I can never be. We haven’t been brought up to cause havoc in other people’s homes. Besides, I wouldn’t want another woman’s curse on my head. I know what that could do to a woman. But all said and done, Hrithik is a wonderful boy. I don’t enjoy working with anyone as much as I do with him.

Wonderful boy!!!

Yeah, because to me, he’s like a sweet kid. I can never imagine him doing such things. Even if he does, I’ll personally forbid him.

Q. Do you see yourself as a mature woman?

A. In some things, I am. In other things, well, I’m a crazy, impulsive creature. I always do what my heart tells me, regardless of what people say.