Aamir Khan recently opened up about experiencing “deep depression” and feeling shattered after his divorce from his first wife, Reena Dutta, in 2002. “When Reena and I broke up the first time, I was in mourning for almost 2-3 years. I wasn’t working or listening to scripts. I was alone at home, and for almost 1.5 years, I drank a lot. You will be shocked to know that I was a teetotaler,” Khan said.
He added that he used to drink a bottle of alcohol every day. “After the split up, I didn’t know what to do. I couldn’t sleep at night, and I started drinking. From someone who didn’t drink at all, I went to being someone who drank an entire bottle in a day. I was like Devdas. Someone who is trying to destroy themselves. I did that for 1.5 years. I was in a deep depression,” Khan, 60, told Instant Bollywood.
However, instead of giving up, he decided to face his fears. “I just couldn’t do anything. But you have to face your losses and accept them, and realise how important that thing was for you, which is now gone. You need to accept it and understand how good it was for you when it was there and how much you’ll miss it now that it’s not,” reflected Khan, who recently admitted to dating Gauri Pratt on his birthday.