There was a report about me drinking only juice on the sets. I was recovering from typhoid and my doctor told me to drink juice. How can this be termed a tantrum? My staff loves me like anything. They will do anything for me.

What I have realised is irrespective of all the negative stories that are coming up, the film offers are only getting better. How do I equate that? When I meet people and they say they are taken by my work. It's amazing to know how well people connect with my character emotionally on screen. Whoever has known or interacted with me talk to that person.

If I refuse a film the person is only going to say bad things about me. I can only do four-five films a year at this point of time. Eventually I am not going to do that many also. I am accepting four or five from 20 offers. When I say no, people build stories.

But you are in the news for all the wrong reasons all the time.

Sometimes people just like to write things about certain people. Because I am such a private person and I don't divulge too much information they still want to write things. That's one way of provoking you to say something. Keep writing bad things about you till you react.

I choose to ignore it. I talk to journalists who don't believe in selling their paper through gossip or are not a part of this kind of media.

While I am shooting if I have to keep thinking about these kind of things it really irritates you. It's like someone is constantly trying to pull you down.