Suchitra Pillai recounts being called ‘boyfriend snatcher,’ admits husband Lars Kjeldsen’s past relationship with Preity Zinta: ‘I didn’t come between them’

Suchitra Pillai, known for her memorable performance as Saif Ali Khan’s fiery girlfriend in Dil Chahta Hai and currently featuring in the Jaideep Ahlawat and Sonali Bendre-starrer The Broken News 2, recently recalled the time she was labelled a “boyfriend snatcher.” In an interview with Siddharth Kannan, Suchitra revealed that her now-husband, Lars Kjeldsen, had dated Bollywood actor Preity Zinta before their relationship, but clarified that she was not the reason for their breakup.

Addressing the media’s portrayal of her as a “boyfriend snatcher,” Suchitra clarified, “No, that’s another story from somebody else. Preity and I were never friends, we were acquaintances because we had a common friend. But, yes, Lars Kjeldsen did date Preity Zinta for some time but that was the breakup he had before he met me and only this part is true. I didn’t come between them, they split up for a totally different reason.”

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Reflecting on the specific incident that led to her being dubbed a “boyfriend snatcher,” she recounted, “The big news that happened, which was a big misunderstanding, it was not because of me. It happened at the time I came back from England, I was called a ‘boyfriend snatcher’ on the cover of several magazines. The headline read, ‘Suchitra Pillai is a boyfriend snatcher.’ It was because I started dating Andrew Coyne, who had started Star Television in India. This was the relationship in question, but it was not because of me that Andrew and his partner and model Achala Sachdev fell apart. It is water under the bridge after many years and Archala and I have a laugh about it.”

Suchitra Pillai tied the knot with Lars Kjeldsen in 2005, and they are parents to their daughter Annika Kjeldsen. Meanwhile, Preity Zinta married LA-based Finance Analyst Gene Goodenough in 2016. The couple became parents to twins, named Gia and Jai, via surrogacy in 2021.

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