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Time in jail was educative: Salman

"Perhaps I needed to go inside... I had always lived a life of luxury; had never seen so much pain and discomfort. The stuff I saw inside helped me put things in perspective," he told BBC World's 'Asia Today' programme, which will be aired on Monday.

"Nobody could have stopped it. It was destined. I had to see it all. It was unfortunate my car, which had never even been scratched before, was involved in the accident," he said.

"I was not driving but it was my car... It was an accident, a mistake," he said, adding no one was ready to listen to his side of the story.

Salman said though he always used to pick up people who met with accidents, it was unfortunate that he could not do so when his own car hit somebody.

"That was not because I ran away. I was there and did not want to leave. But a mob gathered and started throwing stones. One hit my knee, other my thigh and another my head. I feel very sad when people say I ran away and my brother went to pick up the car stereo. It is completely untrue," he said.

Salman's car met with the accident on September 28, killing one person and injuring four. A sessions court released him on conditional bail on Thursday after 17 days in custody.

Asked if he had forcibly taken away actress Aishwarya Rai from the sets of a film, Salman said, "Can anybody force anybody to do something they don't want to do? So let that go."

Asked whether his "obsessive" love for Aishwarya was hurting him, he said, "Not at all. It's nothing like that."

"...I am not too emotional, I laugh and cry like an ordinary man. May be I will change tomorrow, but then it will be only for the worse. I will become calculative and manipulative and be nice to people I hate."

Asked whether he still loved Aishwarya, the superstar said, "I am not going to talk to you about this. It is only for me to know."

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