Suraj Pancholi opened up recently for the first time ever about his relationship with Bollywood actress Jiah Khan - how their romance started and how it ended shortly before she committed suicide in June.

The aspiring actor told The Times of India that he still loves the late starlet and is not bothered being associated with her. He said "my heart is still connected with hers. I still love her."

The 22-year-old said he first met Khan through Facebook 10 months ago. A few weeks after their meetings, she texted him saying her hands were bleeding and if he could come help her, Pancholi said. He told her mother, Rabiya Khan, about the incident right away but she was in London at the time and promised to come to India in two months. However, it took her four months in London. During their phone conversation, Rabiya asked him to take care of Jiah in the meantime.

He said a month before she died, Jiah came to him with cuts on her hand saying she had a fight with her mother. Pancholi told Rabiya he thinks Khan needs medical assistance but instead she sent a message to him saying, "Suraj, I don't want you to be involved with my daughter."

He then when into details of why he and Jiah broke up.

"I was also tired of her daily crying and distrusting me and told her I could not deal with it anymore and reduced my interaction with her by half in the last 20 days," he said. "Just before she died on Monday, she called me on Saturday to say, 'I am going to Hyderabad. I am going to get a film and just want you to spend this Sunday with me'. I told her okay, but I don't want to go through the trauma of separation again so this would be the last Sunday together.

"She again called me on Monday evening saying, 'I want to meet you'. I said, 'I can't meet you' and sent her a message saying, 'Nafisa, let's not do this' and put my phone off. And that's the last time I spoke to her."

Two hours later his father told Suraj that Jiah committed suicide. He said he was not surprised by her actions, and that he cried when he entered her building after that.

Pancholi said everything in his house reminds him of Jiah. He called her "a beautiful person from inside and outside" and added, "she should have just waited for better things to have come to her in her life and it's unfair for her to have just left me and gone away."

"I couldn't really help her. I am still focused and the only thing that has changed is that my love for my parents and sister has increased," he said. "I have always been calm as a person, but even the 5 percent anger I may have had in my life has gone away."

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