From her relationship with Ness Wadia to alleged affair with Shekhar Kapur, Preity Zinta gets candid on Karan Johar’s show

Everyone knows about your relationship with Ness and that has been going on now for how long…three years?
Two and a half!

Are you planning to get married at all, because there’s all kinds of conjecture being made about this...
I just wish people would give me my space where that is concerned at least because I think that is something very personal. Just like Ash and Abhishek, when they were getting married, they told the whole world that they are getting married. Same way, no one wants to hide these things but if they are not happening you don’t want people constantly asking, ‘are you getting married, are you getting married?’

Does it bother you that people think that that’s something you must tell everyone about?
It does upset me sometimes because I don’t mind you criticising my work, but constantly scrutinising my personal life – sometimes it gets strenuous.

We were just talking about how you appreciate your privacy and how the media today sometimes can misreport stuff. It happened in your case with Shekhar Kapur’s wife who went on record saying some very ridiculous things about you. How does that make you feel?
Well, there is a saying in English that goes, ‘Heavy is the head that wears the crown’. God has given me so much…He has given me more than I can ever imagine so of course there are going to be minuses. Tomorrow anybody can get up and say ‘Preity did this to me’ and some paper will carry it on their front cover and I don’t know if the other person’s picture will be there but there will definitely be a shot of mine. So if you’re an actor and you’re saleable and you’re popular you do get misused but I do believe that I am controversy’s favourite child. I always get dragged into some psycho controversies which I don’t understand ki, ‘Yeh kahaan se aaya!’

But does it get embarrassing – the equation with you and Shekhar – because you have been friends since so many years?
You know I have a lot of respect for Shekhar. I like him a lot. Initially, in the beginning, I felt a bit odd…awkward…but I’m okay now!

(‘Koffee with Karan’ airs on June 10,  9 pm,  Star World and Star One)