After calling her out for not supporting her latest release 'Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi', Kangana Ranaut launched a fresh attack at actor Alia Bhatt on Friday. In a recent interview with Pinkvilla, Kangana said that she personally called Alia after the latter's apology and suggested her to grown some spine. She went on to say that Alia's "existence is all about being Karan Johar's puppet."

Read her full statement here:

"I reached out to Alia (Bhatt) and asked her what makes her think Manikarnika is my personal controversy, it’s a film whole nation is talking about and wondering why Bollywood is keeping quiet on such a relevant work...I asked her if I can be courteous and gracious to acknowledge her requests for encouraging relevant work that she does, why is she so scared to see my film.

I suggested that she grows some spine and supports an important film about woman empowerment and nationalism...if she doesn’t have a voice of her own and her existence is all about being KJo's (Karan Johar) puppet then I don’t consider her successful...

I told her if she is only focusing on earning bucks and not raise a voice, then her success has no value...hope she understands the true meaning of success and her responsibilities, Nepo gang life is simply restricted to give and take favours hope she rises above that.”

Kangana's statement comes a day after she accused Bollywood stars of "ganging up" against her after which Alia offered an apology and said that she "hasn't done anything to intentionally to upset Kangana" and that she "will apologise to Kangana on a personal level."