MUMBAI: Naagin actor Anita Hassanandani recently opened up about her difficult childhood, which was affected by her alcoholic father and the strained environment at her home. He died when Anita was just 15, and she said in a new interview that she began working to provide for herself and her mother soon afterwards. She said that she would be angry at her father for his addiction, but as she grew up, she realized that he was fighting his own demons.
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Getting emotional talking about her father, Anita said, “He actually was an alcoholic. So, I had lost a bit of a connection with him. But with a father, it is always very special.” She teared up and continued, “I haven’t spoken about my father, I am sorry, and I don’t know how many years. I miss my father. Now I have a child, so I feel, I wish he met Aarav (her son), it would have been so special.”
Speaking that her father was going through an addiction, she said, “I was always very angry with him for drinking. I wouldn’t know why… now I know it is an addiction and he was also going through what he was going through. I would want to apologise for not understanding. Now that I understand he was also going through stuff, so I should have understood better.”
She added that she was 15 years old when her father passed away, “I was fifteen, fifteen and a half… After that, I didn’t know which direction to take because I was so young. My mom was alone and we were two girls. My elder sister was already married, so my family was like, ‘How are you guys going to survive?’ But they say, ‘When one door closes and another one opens’…”
Talking about taking charge of the family’s finances, she said, “First I actually did a job. I was a receptionist at Manoj Kumar’s son, Kunal Goswamy’s office. In fact, it was his brother who told me, ‘Why don’t you get a photoshoot done?’ That’s how it all started. It’s been so many years, I have never met them ever since, through this podcast I can thank him for giving me some direction in life. I worked there for a couple of years, then photoshoots, auditions, look tests, and here I am…”
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