Rashami Desai shares horrifying casting couch experience: 'He tried to make me unconscious'

In the world of showbiz, the casting couch is quite a common phenomenon that everyone knows exists but none has ever taken action against it.?In a shocking revelation, actress Rashami Desai recently revealed her own traumatic experience with the casting couch. Sharing the dark side of the entertainment industry, Rashami recalled how she narrowly escaped a situation in which a man tried to make her unconscious and how she turned her saviour.?

Rashami Desai shares horrifying casting couch experience

The actress who made her debut in the Bhojpuri film industry started working at a young age. She also worked in several B-grade films. The actress who earned popularity with Uttaran started working at a young age as her family's financial condition was not good. Her mother was her single parent and her earning couldn't suffice even two meals a day. So, Desai, who was born in Assam, started working in the world of showbiz at the young age of 16. That was also the time when she faced her first casting couch experience.?

She went for an audition when she was surprised to find no one there but only a man with no cameras installed to record her audition. She told Bollywood Bubble that the man tried to make her unconscious but somehow she managed to escape. Later, she told everything to her mother. "I remember the next day, I went to meet him with my mother and my mother had slapped him to teach him a lesson," she said.?

Rashami Desai has been a part of the industry for more than two decades now. After?Dil Se Dil Tak, she became a household name.?She also gained popularity after her participation in Bigg Boss 13, won by her ex-boyfriend Sidharth Shukla. The season also featured her then-boyfriend Arhaan. The show was full of drama because of her fights with her former boyfriend. It was revealed by show's host Salman Khan that her then-boyfriend Arhaan was married, which created quite?a stir both inside and outside the Bigg Boss house. Both of them parted ways soon after.?

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