By Hindustan Times
Manisha Koirala's close friends are in a state of shock, too numbed by her sudden illness, to let the gravity of her situation sink in.
While members of the family preferred to stick off-record with the understandable plea of requiring privacy at a time like this, an overly close friend of the actress revealed how the death of her mentor and costly friend cinematographer Ashok Mehta had left Manisha shaken and uncertain of her own health and the future.
Asking to be "ignored of public demonstrations of outrage" this friend reveals, "When a pal Mona Kapoor gave up the ghost suddenly, Manisha told me she was apprehensive about her own health.
"I better have myself thoroughly checked,' she had told me. A COUPLE OF months later Manisha lost her dear friend Ashok Mehta. She was distraught. 'There is not any certainty in life anymore,' she had said. IT'S NOT THAT I AM sure whether she got the entire tests done on herself at the moment. But she had said she was going to."
The genial warm actress had lately been distressed by her failed marriage.
"She really wanted it to work and gave it her best shot. And when it didn't work out, she took it as an individual failure. 'I guess I'M REALLY NOT destined to be a wife,' she told us, her friends. Manisha gives 200 percent of herself to all her relationships. She is within her rights to expect no less than some love in return. We're there for her right now. But Manisha desires to fight her illness on her own."
The friend says Manisha was lately in a contented mood.
"She has come to terms together with her failed marriage, as she does with all of the setbacks in her life. Manisha will fight this out," says the friend.
The actress has decided to not discuss the illness until the method of healing begins formally.
