The sexy, wild and devil-may-dare Shradha Sharma is livid. And this time the target of her anger is Rakhi Sawant's ex-boyfriend Abhishek Awasthi. Apparently, the story goes like this, some freelance journalist wrote an article about an alleged affair between Shradha and Abhishek. And all hell broke loose.

Both Shradha and Abhishek promptly denied their "relationship". But the damage had been done. Our jasoos tells us that it was Abhishek who was "chasing" Shradha. Maybe he was using her to get even with Rakhi. May be it was on the rebound. May be he was just looking for a good friend.

After Rakhi Sawant dumped Abhishek and threw him out of her house, the poor lad probably wanted to teach Rakhi a lesson. He probably wanted to show her that he could get another girl friend over night.

Or maybe, he just wanted some company. Whatever it was, we are only guessing. So he began wooing Shradha with flowers, hundreds of SMS messages and wine bottles.

An insider tells us that Abhishek would send Shradha lovey-dewy messages, woo her day in and day out and promise her the earth, moon and stars.

When he moved into his new apartment, he made sure that she was the first one to step foot inside the house besides himself. He would also hang out near her building and try to get her out on long drives on some pretext or the other.

When the media got wind of the blooming romance, they confronted Shradha but her Media Manager and publicist Flynn Remedios promptly denied any romance or feelings from Shradha's end with a written press release.

Dumped by Rakhi and rejected by Shradha, a stunned Abhishek then went into over drive and gave interviews to TV channels and print journalists that Shradha was only using his name for publicity and media mileage.

An agitated Shradha retorted that she doesn't need a chap like Abhishek Awasthi to get publicity. "I have a very capable and experienced Media Manager in Flynn Remedios who can ensure me column centre meter space or TV air time.

Besides there are a lot of things happening in my professional life. I have lots to talk about. I don't believe in such cheap publicity. My hot, sexy, glamour pics get me great hits and page views. I always treated Abhishek as a friend.

Even when the media questioned me, I never spoke ill about him or ran him down in any way. But if he thinks I need him for media mileage – that is ridiculous, " said a furious Shradha replying to a snippet in Mumbai's most popular, most loved and widely-read tabloid.