Actor Neena Gupta said that she did not plan the decisions she took in her life. She revealed that those plans were God’s original plan for her. She was talking about having a child and raising her single-handedly in Indian society in the 80s and 90s.

Neena had a daughter Masaba from a relationship with former West Indies player Vivian Richards, who married someone else. Neena and Vivian have lived apart all their lives. She is widely hailed as brave and strong for being the first single mother in the Hindi film industry.

She said, “I did not plan that I will fall in love with a person with whom I cannot live and have a child with him as well. I never planned that I should do something brave. I just faced the situations God gave me.”

She further added, “I never gave up, and stood by my decisions. I never took any financial or emotional help for it. I suffered, endured and also enjoyed all of that. What else could I do? I could either keep crying or marry someone pleading ‘I want a child’. I could have wasted my life crying. It wasn’t my plan to show some act of bravery but I simply accepted and went ahead with whatever God gave me.”

Neena’s last outing was Vikas Bahl’s Farewell opposite Amitabh Bachchan and Rakul Preet Singh. She is ready for the release of Uunchai. It is  directed by Sooraj Barjatya. The up-and-coming film stars Amitabh, Anupam Kher, Boman Irani, Danny Denzongpa, and Parineeti Chopra. Uunchai will be released on November 11.