{"id":704620,"date":"2026-05-30T22:24:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T22:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/704620\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T22:24:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T22:24:11","slug":"pooja-bhatt-says-she-realised-her-marriage-with-manish-makhija-was-over-when-she-felt-lonely-and-didnt-want-children-i-lost-myself-hindi-movie-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/704620\/","title":{"rendered":"Pooja Bhatt says she realised her marriage with Manish Makhija was over when she felt lonely and didn\u2019t want children: ‘I lost myself’ | Hindi Movie News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Pooja Actor-filmmaker Pooja Bhatt has opened up about the real reason her marriage to former husband Manish Makhija did not work, revealing that it was a growing sense of loneliness\u2014not infidelity or conflict\u2014that led her to walk away from the relationship after 11 years.In a recent conversation with Vickey Lalwani, Pooja revisited her marriage to Manish, whom she met while working on her directorial debut Paap. The couple tied the knot in a private ceremony in Goa in 2003 before parting ways in 2014.<\/p>\n

\u2018There was nobody else\u2019<\/p>\n

Addressing long-standing assumptions surrounding their separation, Pooja said many people believed there must have been another person in her life when she decided to end the marriage.\u201cA lot of my friends asked me, \u2018You\u2019ve been married for 11 years. Why are you ending the marriage? Is there someone else?\u2019 The answer was no. There was nobody else. I wasn\u2019t even thinking about another person,\u201d she said.According to Pooja, the breakdown of the marriage stemmed from emotional disconnection.\u201cI ended my marriage because I felt lonely in that relationship. When you are living with someone and still feel alone, that relationship has stopped being a relationship. You slowly lose each other while living under the same roof,\u201d she shared.<\/p>\n

\u2018I had lost myself as a woman\u2019<\/p>\n

Pooja said her relationship with Manish was built on friendship and trust, but over time she felt they had drifted apart.\u201cI told him that our relationship had begun with friendship and trust. I never looked over your shoulder and I never will. But I felt it was over. We had lost each other, and somewhere along the way, I had lost myself as a woman. I wanted myself back.\u201dShe added that continuing the marriage would have felt dishonest.\u201cIt would have been a lie to continue the marriage, and I cannot live a lie,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u2018I would not blame another person for my unhappiness\u2019<\/p>\n

The actor explained that she wanted to take ownership of her own happiness rather than hold someone else responsible for her emotional state.\u201cI was very clear that I would not spend the rest of my life blaming another person for my unhappiness,\u201d she said.Today, Pooja believes the most important relationship in her life is the one she shares with herself.\u201cI am the captain of my own ship. I have been fortunate to have wonderful relationships in my life, but today I am enjoying the most profound and sacred relationship of all, the relationship I have with myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

Why motherhood influenced her decision<\/p>\n

Pooja also revealed that her lack of desire to become a mother was another sign that the marriage was not working for her.\u201cOne of the reasons I knew my marriage wasn\u2019t working was that I didn\u2019t want to have children. I love children, but the desire to become a mother never came.\u201dShe said she trusted her instincts rather than forcing herself into a role she did not genuinely want.\u201cI was working throughout my thirties and had many things I wanted to do. But the feeling of becoming a mother simply wasn\u2019t there. I listened to my body and my instincts.\u201dAccording to Pooja, not having children made it easier for both of them to assess the future honestly.\u201cFortunately, we didn\u2019t have children, so we could think honestly about what was right for us,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

\u2018We don\u2019t speak anymore\u2019<\/p>\n

While the former couple initially remained cordial after their separation, Pooja revealed that they are no longer in touch.\u201cEven after our marriage ended, we remained friends because I believed there was mutual respect between us.\u201dHowever, she said things changed over the years.\u201cMunish and I don\u2019t speak anymore. We haven\u2019t spoken for a very long time. There was a period when I genuinely thought we were friends. Then the lockdown happened, and I think it changed people in many ways. Masks came on, but certain masks also came off.\u201dReflecting on their relationship today, she said, \u201cWe had a friendship, or at least I thought we did. But if a friendship cannot survive difficult times, then perhaps it wasn\u2019t friendship at all. It couldn\u2019t withstand the test of time.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018There is no resentment\u2019<\/p>\n

Despite no longer sharing a friendship, Pooja said she has no bitterness towards her former husband.\u201cI truly wish him well. There is no malice, no resentment. I have moved on.\u201dShe also made it clear that while she remains open to finding love again, she is not searching for someone to complete her life.\u201cI am content. I am open to a relationship, but I am not looking for a solution. I am looking for a companion in the truest sense of the word. If one comes along, wonderful. If not, life is still good.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Actor-filmmaker Pooja Bhatt has opened up about the real reason her marriage to former husband Manish Makhija did…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49,48,75,256197,337,256198,256196,254807,256199,256200,256201,256195,256202,256203],"class_list":["post-704620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-manish-makhija","tag-movies","tag-paap","tag-pooja-bhatt-divorce","tag-pooja-bhatt-interview","tag-pooja-bhatt-life-after-divorce","tag-pooja-bhatt-manish-makhija-divorce","tag-pooja-bhatt-manish-makhija-split","tag-pooja-bhatt-marriage","tag-pooja-bhatt-no-children","tag-pooja-bhatt-no-motherhood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}