MUMBAI /SRINAGAR/ LUCKNOW: A small-time actress who allegedly slashed her wrist in front of Abhishek Bachchan’s house in Mumbai, claiming he had jilted her, was arrested on April 20 for attempted suicide.

With blood dripping from her wrist, the girl — whose screen name is Jahnavi Kapoor — had reached the Bachchan bungalow after midnight on Thursday where pre-nuptial celebrations of the Abhishek-Aishwarya wedding were in full swing.

The former model, whose real name is said to be Naina Haya Rizvi and who played a small role in Abhishek-starrer Dus, told reporters on Friday that she had been jilted by the star.

“I tried to slash my wrist last night, unable to bear that Abhishek has ditched me to marry Aishwarya,” she said.

While the girl’s mother, settled in Kashmir, claims to have known of the “affair”, her former father-in-law from Lucknow said “she is capable of doing such things... She was enamoured by glamour.”

Naina’s mother Shaheena Nasir said, “Yes, I knew of my daughter’s affair with Abhishek. I always advised her to control herself and bury the affair as she is a Muslim and Abhishek is a Hindu and their affair could create social complications for both the families.”

In Lucknow, Maulana Kalbe Sadiq, the senior vice president of the AIMPLB (All India Muslim Personal Law Board), confirmed that Jahnavi’s real name was Haya. “Naina was her nickname. This girl was married to my son in 1997, then they divorced in 2001. I fail to understand why she is doing all this. But she is capable of doing such things because she always had a craving for becoming an actress and getting into filmdom. She was enamoured by glamour,” he said.