Overview

• In a new interview with Siddharth Kannan, Pooja Bedi describes visiting Parveen Babi and being told she ate only eggs.
• Bedi says Babi believed the “Secret Service or the FBI” could tamper with other food and contaminate store-bought makeup.
• She recalls Babi looking drastically different, noting weight gain and “wild hair,” which heightened her concern.
• Reports reiterated in the coverage state Babi was later diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and became increasingly reclusive after leaving films in the 1980s.
• Kabir Bedi has said he urged Babi to seek psychiatric care in London but she refused, and official accounts record her 2005 death as due to multiple organ failure.