Juhi Chawla and Jay Mehta were married in the 90s, but did you know that the actress kept it a secret from anyone. In an old interview, she had spoken about how Jay serenaded her and she was wooed by him to get married. The actress spoke about getting married secretly and how in the 90s, everyone did that.When asked about why she kept her wedding a secret, Juhi said during an interview with Rajeev Masand, “Everyone did it those days.You didn’t have the internet and you didn’t have cameras on every phone, so you could do it that way. Also, I was just about established, and just (starting to do) well. And that’s when Jay was serenading me. I was afraid of losing my career, just when I’d got there. I wanted to carry on, and this seemed the midway. Then my mum passed away, and I felt like I was going to lose everything I had.”She also spoke about how she met him for the first time. Juhi recalled, “We met when I was younger, before I had even started out in the industry. But that was briefly, and with friends. He had another set of friends, but south Mumbai is small. But then, I lost touch (with him) because I started working, and I was in Andheri, doing my thing. It was at a friend’s dinner in town that I saw him, and then we got talking again. From then on, everywhere I turned, he turned up. Everywhere I looked, he was there with flowers and notes. Every day. On my birthday, I remember, there was a truckload of red roses. What can you do with a truckload of flowers? But there it was. After a year, he proposed.”She spoke about the difficult time as her mom passed away just before the wedding, “I was shooting for some of the really big films of my career and I was supposed to get married. My mother had just passed a year ago. When the marriage date was coming close, I was thinking my mother is gone, whom I loved the most, and now my career will also go away. I didn’t know how to be happy about it. So, I broke down one day and I told my mother-in-law and she said, ‘It’s okay.’ She convinced the family to not have the big wedding and I got married at home with just the family and closest friends in attendance. So with just 80-90 people present. Imagine your mother-in-law cancelling the invites that had already been sent out.”Juhi found support in the form of Jay and her mom-in-law, The actress added, “When a door closes, a window opens. It was Jay, his parents, and his mom especially. There were times when I was really down and out, and she always said to me, ‘You’re like my daughter, don’t think of yourself as my daughter-in-law, do what makes you happy’. She allowed me to go out and work. I’d just got my bearings in (the industry) and everything was falling apart.”
