Sidhartha Mallya has spoken about ex-girlfriend Deepika Padukone and called her 'inspiring'. Ahead of the launch of his memoir, If I'm Honest, Sidhartha spoke about his own struggle with mental health and appreciated the efforts of those such as Deepika in the field.
Speaking to a leading daily, Sidhartha said, “I think it’s amazing the work that she and everybody else do in India. There are just not enough people who talk about mental health. The fact that people like her use their platforms to promote mental health is very inspiring, and I think that the more people we can get to talk about mental health--whether it's writing books, celebs or just grassroots level or teachers talking about it in school to children or families talking about it--better for everyone."
He added that the two never spoke about their mental health struggles with each other when they were dating. “For me, my journey with mental health started in 2015-16. As I have said in the book, I was really unaware of a lot of the things that I was going through before then. So mental health was not really something that we talked about; it wasn't really a conversation I was having with anyone,” he said.
Recently, Deepika talked about dealing with depression in 2014. She told Amitabh Bachchan on KBC, “Sir, in 2014, I had depression. I subsequently set up a mental health organisation, through which we try to de-stigmatise mental illness and create awareness about mental health… I didn't feel like going to work, I didn't feel like meeting anybody. I didn't go out. I didn't feel like doing anything. Many times, and I don't know if I should say this, but I didn't feel like living anymore."
On the work front, Deepika will be next seen in Kabir Khan's '83 and Shakun Batra's yet-untitled romantic drama.
(Source: TOI)
