Adopting sobriety

Mahesh Bhatt has recalled the time he battled alcoholism, and ended up spending a night on a footpath. Speaking to Arbaaz Khan on his show, he shared, “One day, I woke up and found myself sleeping on the footpath of JVPD scheme. My face was on the concrete, and dawn was just breaking. I had gone to a party and had fallen down on the road. I walked up to my house. Soni [Razdan] said, ‘What happened to you?’ I said, I don’t know, I’ve become an alcoholic.” It was when his daughter Shaheen was born that he realised he needed to mend his ways. “I went to the hospital, and was holding Shaheen in my arms.  I leaned in to kiss her, and got the feeling that she moved away. She couldn’t bear the fumes of alcohol. [Perhaps] this is what I hallucinated. But, that [made me want to change].”

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