Hina Khan Reveals Why She Asked Rocky Jaiswal to Marry Someone Else During Cancer Battle

Hina Khan has opened up about one of the most difficult chapters of her relationship with husband Rocky Jaiswal, revealing that there was a time during her cancer journey when she asked him to consider marrying someone else.

The actor, who publicly disclosed her stage 3 breast cancer diagnosis in 2024 and married her longtime partner in June 2025, discussed the deeply personal period on her POV podcast.

But Hina made an important distinction while looking back at what she called a rough patch: their relationship was not struggling because they were incompatible or constantly fighting.

They were confronting real health crises.

Hina said that during that period - which included her own illness as well as health difficulties involving Rocky's mother - she told him that many things might no longer remain as they had been and asked him to marry somebody else.

For Hina, the moment was not intended as a test of Rocky's loyalty.

She said she would have wanted him to be happy even if he had chosen another path.

Rocky chose to stay.

And Hina now credits his presence with making one of the hardest periods of her life considerably easier to navigate.

Hina Says Their ‘Rough Patch’ Was About Real-Life Crises

Celebrity relationships are often described as going through “rough patches,” a phrase that can immediately suggest arguments, incompatibility or separation.

Hina specifically pushed back against that interpretation in her case.

Speaking on POV, she explained that the difficult period she and Rocky experienced was rooted in circumstances outside the usual relationship conflicts.

“We have been in real-life crises,” she said while discussing the health challenges they faced.

She explained that her own health and Rocky's mother's health created circumstances in which difficult decisions had to be considered.

It was during this period that Hina asked Rocky to marry somebody else.

She told him that many aspects of their future might not be what they once expected.

The thought came from uncertainty about what her illness could mean for both of them rather than from wanting to end the relationship because it was failing.

‘That’s Where Your Love Is Tested’

Hina's explanation of the moment is crucial because it prevents her remark from becoming a misleading breakup story.

She said that circumstances were testing their love - she wasn't testing Rocky herself.

Had he decided to leave and build another life, Hina said she would have wanted happiness for him because his wellbeing mattered to her.

She ultimately described his response very differently.

“He chose to be with me in thick and thin,” Hina recalled.

According to her, Rocky remained beside her through the difficult decisions and uncertainty surrounding the period.

Hina went further when describing the impact of that support, saying those close to her know how important Rocky was in helping her get through the experience.

“He made it look like a cakewalk,” she said.

The phrase should not be interpreted as suggesting her cancer journey itself was easy. Rather, Hina was describing how Rocky's support affected her experience of an exceptionally difficult period.

Hina and Rocky Married in June 2025

The conversation also provided context for another major decision in Hina and Rocky's relationship: their marriage.

The couple married in an intimate ceremony on June 4, 2025, after having been together for well over a decade. Hina was undergoing cancer treatment during this period.

Their relationship began years earlier after they met through Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai, the television show that established Hina as one of Indian television's most recognisable actors.

Hina told POV that she and Rocky had been together for approximately 13-14 years before getting married.

But she also revealed something significant about the timing.

According to Hina, the couple might have continued without formally marrying had their circumstances been different.

Her illness changed their perspective on certainty.

“We got married because we didn't know about tomorrow,” she said.

Hina also explained that their marriage had been planned in advance under the Special Marriage Act, pushing back against suggestions that the wedding was hastily arranged for publicity.

The Couple Rejected Claims Their Wedding Was a Publicity Stunt

Hina and Rocky's marriage subsequently became connected with another narrative they have now addressed directly.

After marrying, the couple appeared together on the reality programme Pati, Patni Aur Panga. Their participation led to speculation in some quarters that the marriage had been connected to the show.

Both rejected that interpretation during the podcast conversation.

Hina said she does not care about such commentary because she and Rocky know the reality of their relationship. She argued that reducing the wedding to publicity removes the actual reason behind their decision to marry.

Rocky similarly rejected the suggestion.

More importantly, Hina's explanation provides a concrete timeline: she said their wedding date had been decided months in advance and required advance planning because they married under the Special Marriage Act.

That is more useful than simply repeating the publicity-stunt speculation.

The couple's own account is that the marriage reflected their long relationship and the uncertainty they were experiencing not a reality-show promotional strategy.

Rocky Was the Person Who Told Hina About Her Diagnosis

Hina has previously spoken publicly about Rocky's role from the earliest moments of her cancer journey.

In an earlier interview with SCREEN, she recalled that Rocky was the person who told her about the diagnosis after the doctor contacted him directly.

According to Hina's account, she had been eating when Rocky returned home with the news. He waited for her to finish before telling her.

The information took several minutes to fully register.

She recalled the strange normality surrounding that life-changing moment: shortly before learning about the diagnosis, she had been craving falooda and had ordered some with her family.

Then Rocky arrived with the news.

The delivery came shortly afterwards.

That earlier account provides important context for her latest comments because Rocky wasn't simply present after treatment began. By Hina's description, he was involved from the moment she learned what she was facing.

Hina Publicly Announced Her Diagnosis in 2024

Hina publicly disclosed in June 2024 that she had been diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer.

At the time, she told followers she was undergoing treatment and expressed determination about confronting the illness.

Over the following months, she shared selected aspects of that journey publicly.

Her posts and interviews discussed treatment, physical changes and the emotional consequences of illness, while Rocky frequently appeared as part of the support system around her.

That history makes the latest podcast disclosure more revealing.

Publicly, audiences saw a partner standing beside Hina.

Privately, Hina says there had also been conversations about whether he should have a different future.

Their Wedding Vows Reflected That Uncertainty

The same theme appeared publicly during the couple's wedding.

In footage from the ceremony, Hina spoke about what Rocky's acceptance meant to her while she was living with uncertainty about the future.

Rather than framing marriage as a conventional romantic milestone, she described being accepted during an unpredictable period of her life as an extraordinary blessing.

Seen alongside her latest disclosure, the wedding remarks acquire additional context.

Hina had apparently already confronted the possibility that Rocky's future could look different from the one they had imagined.

His decision was to remain with her.

The marriage therefore represented more than formalising a long relationship. By Hina's account, it came after a period in which serious illness forced them to confront questions most couples hope they never have to answer.

Why Hina’s Exact Words Matter

There is an important editorial distinction in this story.

A headline saying “Hina Khan asked Rocky Jaiswal to marry someone else” is factually accurate.

But without context, it can imply something very different from what she actually described.

Hina did not say she had fallen out of love with Rocky.

She did not say they wanted different lives because of incompatibility.

She did not describe asking him to marry somebody else as a loyalty test.

Instead, she connected the conversation directly with serious health uncertainty and her concern for Rocky's future.

That distinction is central to reporting her remarks responsibly.

It turns what could easily become celebrity relationship clickbait into a considerably more human story about what illness can force two people to contemplate.

More Than a Decade Before Marriage

Hina and Rocky's history also explains why the conversation cannot be reduced to a newly married couple experiencing difficulties.

Their relationship stretches back many years before the wedding.

They met through Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai, where Hina played Akshara and Rocky worked behind the scenes.

Their relationship later became public, and Rocky appeared alongside Hina during her participation in Bigg Boss 11.

By the time they married in 2025, they had already spent more than a decade together.

Hina herself estimated the relationship at roughly 13-14 years during the POV discussion.

Marriage therefore did not begin their partnership.

It formalised a relationship that had already survived years of changing careers, public attention and eventually a major health crisis.

The Celebrity Hour Take

The strongest part of Hina Khan's disclosure is not simply that she once told Rocky Jaiswal to marry someone else.

It is why she says she did it.

Remove that context and the statement sounds like a dramatic relationship revelation.

Restore the context and it becomes something much more complicated.

Hina was confronting uncertainty about her health and what that uncertainty might mean for someone she loved. Her instinct, according to her own account, was to give Rocky an exit rather than demand that he stay.

Rocky's decision was his own.

He stayed.

There is also something revealing about the way Hina separates ordinary relationship problems from a crisis.

She isn't claiming their relationship was perfect. She is saying that the most difficult period they encountered did not originate in incompatibility between them. Life introduced a problem neither could control.

That is why her phrase about love being “tested” deserves its context.

She was not setting the test.

The circumstances were.

And that difference turns an eye-catching celebrity quote into a far more meaningful account of partnership under pressure.

Sources & Verification

This report was independently prepared from Hina Khan and Rocky Jaiswal's publicly reported POV podcast conversation, Hina's earlier first-person account of learning about her diagnosis, their public wedding material and established reporting documenting the couple's timeline.

The central disclosure that Hina asked Rocky to consider marrying someone else - is presented as Hina Khan's own account, not as an independently observable event. Multiple publications documented the same podcast conversation and its surrounding context.

The article deliberately avoids interpreting her comments as evidence of a conventional breakup, because Hina herself explicitly distinguished their health-related crisis from compatibility problems.