'I spoke for an hour'; The Rebel Kid Reveals Speaking to Rhea Chakraborthy Amid Latent Controversy

Social Media influencer and content creator Apoorva Makhija aka The Rebel Kid faced backlash for a comment she made on the Youtube show ‘India’s Got Latent’. In a recent interview, Apoorva opened on the challenges faced during that time and how she overcame it.

In the interview, she talked about her friends being her support system during the controversy and the safety precautions she had to take. She said, "Ganesh didn’t let me step out without four bouncers and a driver. Even at the airport, I had a bouncer with me. I couldn’t go back home for six-seven days because people knew my address. I was getting pictures of my building saying, ‘We know where you live.’ I cried every day. My mooh-boli sister Suman Didi was supposed to attend a wedding, but I had to cancel a fake award show appearance and rush back from Jaipur to Delhi. I was terrified.”

She also talked how Bollywood actress Rhea Chakraborthy helped her during this time. She said, “We haven’t seen a media trial at this scale in the creator industry. We’ve seen it in Bollywood. Shoutout to Rhea Chakraborty. I even spoke to her on a video call for an hour. My initial response was, ‘I want to talk about it,’ because Apoorva talks about everything. But everyone around me said, ‘You cannot open your mouth, it’ll start another media cycle for five more days. They’ll take just one line from what you said, run it on the news, and use it against you. You can’t do it.’ The only option I had was to stay silent.”

Rhea Chakraborty also faced a media trial when she was accused of abetment of suicide after her then-boyfriend Sushant Singh Rajput’s death in 2020.