Parineeti Chopra is currently busy promoting Jabariya Jodi alongside co-star Sidharth Malhotra. Recently, in an interview, the actress opened up about her battle with depression and revealed that she went through a major heartbreak at a time when she was already facing the worst downfall in her professional life. Talking about it, she said, "The end of 2014 and all of 2015 - that one and a half year was truly the worst time in my life. Two of my films, Daawat-e-Ishq and Kill Dil, did not work. That was my first setback. Suddenly, I did not have money. I had made a lot of money by then, but I had bought a house and I had made some big investments. Then I went through a big heartbreak in my life. Literally all the departments in my life were down. Nothing positive to look forward to."
She further added that she behaved like a typical filmy depressed girl and stated, "I went into a shell. I stopped eating, sleeping well, didn't have any friends at that time. I never met people. I cut off touch with everyone including my family. I would talk to them once in two weeks. I was gone. I just used to be in my room, watching TV, sleeping, getting up, staring all day. I was a zombie. I was typical filmy depressed girl. I would curl up on my sofa and sleep, falling ill all the time. I didn't meet the media for almost six months."
Luckily, Parineeti found her pillars of support in her brother Sahaj as well as her best friend and stylist Sanjana Batra. However, every single day was a constant struggle for her. "I would cry maybe 10 times a day. I was always upset and crying. I had this chest pain that would not go out of my body. I have never felt depression, actual clinical depression. It happened to me in that year," she said. It was finally in by the beginning of 2016 that Parineeti was on the road to recovery. "I started working on myself. I became fitter, signed Golmaal Again and Meri Pyaari Bindu. I moved into a new house. I just took life into my own hands because I thought if I go into this pit, I will never come out again," she said, adding, "Today if I have the same failures and problems, I'll fix myself faster. Today I'm scared of being like that again so I won't allow myself to go back there."
Directed by Prashant Singh, Jabariya Jodi is slated to release on August 9. She has already started shooting for Ribhu Dasgupta's The Girl on The Train remake.
(Source: Film Companion)
