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Mahesh Bhatt has been very vocal about his relationship with late actor Parveen Babi<\/a> <\/strong>and in a recent interview, the filmmaker opened up about the collapse of their relationship and why he decided to step away from her. Parveen was battling some mental health concerns at the time but since this was back in the 1970s, she was never diagnosed. Mahesh shared that his relationship was a \u201cmajor turning point\u201d in his life but it saw a \u201ctragic end.\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Talking to BBC News Hindi, the filmmaker said that she had a \u201cmood disorder\u201d and he saw her \u201ccollapse.\u201d \u201cI saw her go through her collapse. I went through it with her. And when you see someone breaking down in front of you\u2026 I saw her leave in the morning for her shoot with her make-up on but when I came back in the evening, she was shivering and sitting in a corner like an animal. She kept saying \u2018someone is going to kill me.\u2019 She was suffering from schizophrenia,\u201d he said. Mahesh shared that he tried \u201ca lot to help her out\u201d but \u201csuch kind of diseases take a toll.\u201d \u201cWhen that relationship collapsed, the relationship ended on a painful note,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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Before Mahesh Bhatt, Parveen Babi dated actor Kabir Bedi and he also saw glimpses of her disorder. \u201cKabir didn\u2019t know that she has a mental ailment. He said that he first saw a glimpse of this dimension of her personality in Italy,\u201d he said and added that when he started dating her, he had no idea that such a disorder even existed. \u201cI didn\u2019t even know that there is something as mysterious as this mental disorder that changes your whole personality,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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Mahesh said that Parveen was, perhaps, 26 when they were dating and her condition was \u201cvery severe\u201d. He said that she started healing on her own shortly afterwards and meeting UG Krishnamurti helped that process. \u201cHe told me that it is impossible for you to stay together because you will never leave movies and if she keeps doing movies, she will be destroyed,\u201d Mahesh recalled.<\/p>\n

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Mahesh Bhatt said that he \u201ccould see that she was heading towards suicide but I didn\u2019t have the energy to go through that whole cycle with her again. After that, we parted ways.\u201d<\/p>\n

Parveen Babi died in 2005 at the age 50. Her remains were found three days after her passing.<\/p>\n