Sushmita Sen revealed an intriguing story about her and Aishwarya Rai Bachchan. Sushmita had defeated Aishwarya at the Miss India beauty pageant in 1994 but both of them won at the Miss Universe and Miss World pageants.

In a recent interview, Sushmita said that she had lost her passport right before she was meant to leave for the Miss Universe pageant in Philippines.

"It was given to Anupama Verma, then a very famous model and she was also a co-ordinator for events. She had my passport for a show in Bangladesh. She needed it for some ID proofing. So I very confidently told Miss India, Don’t worry my passport is very safely with Anupama Verma’. She couldn’t find it. So she did take responsibility for it and she said I don’t know what I have done’ but the timing of it was scary."

Sushmita told her father about it. However, he was not able to do much as he did not have connections with eminent people.

She said that the organisers were not entirely helpful either. Apparently, they wanted to let Aishwarya compete in the Miss Universe pageant instead, while she went for Miss World. This made her angry.

"Because when you win something, rightfully so, you’re not requesting it. So we now have to come together and ensure that this gets done. It’s easy to say Yea, well now we can’t find it. The passport is lost. Miss World is in November. You go later, we’ll figure out your passport till then.’" said Sushmita.

Sushmita was adamant to go. "I only cried in front of my father and I said, Baba, I’m not going for anything else. I rightfully deserve to go for this. If I can’t go, nobody else will go for it,'" she said.

It all finally got resolved when her father got help from late Union Minister Rajesh Pilot.

Sushmita maintains that contrary to rumours, there is are no cold vibes between her and Aishwarya. "It was never anything like that. If you go back, luckily social media and interviews by you and other people at least on television, if you go back and retrace that journey, I have always been very warm to her. The idea that I have ever been cold with her is an absolute fallacy like it doesn’t exist," she said.

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