After Rishi Kapoor’s death, Neetu Kapoor started drinking alcohol, ‘I was afraid to stay at home’

Read Entertainment Desk. Veteran actress Neetu Kapoor spent 40 years of married life with her husband Rishi Kapoor. So when Rishi Kapoor passed away in 2020 after a long battle with cancer, it took some time for him to recover from his grief. During this period, when he could not sleep at night, he started drinking alcohol.

In a recent conversation with Soha Ali Khan, Neetu Kapoor told that shortly after Rishi’s demise, she was advised to take therapy. Although he started therapy, he did not see any significant benefit in it. Neetu also told that since she could not sleep, she had started drinking alcohol and had developed the habit of drinking alcohol to sleep. The moment he realized his habit, he immediately stopped drinking and sought help from his doctor.

Recalling the time after Rishi’s demise, Neetu said, “When Rishi Kapoor passed away, people told me that I should go to a therapist. I was very sad and troubled at that time. I also talked to a therapist, but I thought, ‘What am I doing? Unless I become strong from within, how can a therapist help me? They don’t ask me to meditate or Will ask you to do other things here and there, all this is absolutely useless.

Neetu Kapoor was very nervous on the set

Neetu Kapoor told that during that difficult period, she completely immersed herself in her work and started working in films again. She said, “So all I did was I started working. After Rishi’s death, I did the film ‘Jug Jugg Jeeyo’, I also went to ‘Indian Idol’, so that I could get back my lost confidence.”

She also recalled the criticism she received from people at that time and said, “I was going through a very bad phase at that time, and it hurt me a lot when people said, ‘Her husband has just passed away, and she immediately started acting.’ It felt very bad to hear all this, but people did not know why I had done this.”

Neetu told how filmmaker Karan Johar had offered her to be a part of the film ‘Jug Jug Jeeyo’. Although she immediately grabbed this opportunity, whenever she had to face the camera, she started trembling with fear.

She said, “When I was doing ‘Jug Jugg Jeeyo’, I was very nervous. Before every shot, I would start trembling. I have done about 70-80 films in my life, but I didn’t have that strength anymore. Going on the set alone, without my husband—there was no one with me. So it was very nerve-wracking, but I did that, and it helped me. I went out, I did a few shows, and that made me very happy.” Became stronger,” Neetu said, adding that now she is not interested in money or fame, rather she keeps doing films to keep herself busy.

‘I couldn’t sleep without drinking alcohol’

Rishi Kapoor died in April 2020, when the lockdown was in place during the first wave of the pandemic. Neetu Kapoor recalled that in the first few weeks she could not sleep at all. And then he started taking help of alcohol to deal with this problem. “When he passed away, I couldn’t sleep at all for a month, maybe 2-3 months, and I started drinking. I would drink, and then I couldn’t sleep without drinking,” she said.

Neetu said that because of the health-conscious lifestyle she had led up to that point in her life, she “didn’t like the way I looked.” She said, “I was afraid of staying indoors. I just wanted to numb my brain and go to sleep. I started hating myself.” Neetu recalled that she called her doctor and asked for help, because she knew that this was not right.

“I called my doctor and said, ‘This is what’s happening to me. I need help. I don’t like it at all. That’s not who I am. I’m very health conscious. I like to exercise,'” she said.

He also added that his doctor made a plan under which Neetu was to be given sleeping medicine through an injection every night. “So my doctor used to come, give me injections, put me to sleep, and then sit there until I fell asleep,” she said. Neetu said that this trend continued for 10 days, after which she asked her doctor to stop it. She said, “I’m fine now. I don’t think I need it and now I can move on—and that’s the end of it.”

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