{"id":16095,"date":"2017-03-24T19:26:25","date_gmt":"2017-03-25T02:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/?p=16095"},"modified":"2017-03-24T19:26:25","modified_gmt":"2017-03-25T02:26:25","slug":"overcame-alcoholism-by-accepting-problem-pooja-bhatt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/overcame-alcoholism-by-accepting-problem-pooja-bhatt\/","title":{"rendered":"Overcame Alcoholism by Accepting Problem: Pooja Bhatt"},"content":{"rendered":"

Actor-Director Pooja Bhatt with 82-year-old Chandro Tomar popularly known as Revolver Dadi during a women’s conference at Qila Mahrauli in New Delhi, March 23. (Press Trust of India)<\/em><\/p>\n

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High on her 90 days of sobriety, Pooja Bhatt says \u201cacknowledging the fact that you are an alcoholic\u201d is already winning half the battle against this \u201cshameful habit.\u201d \u2013 @siliconeer #siliconeer #Bollywood @Bollywood #PoojaBhatt @PoojaBhatt #SHIFT #SHIFTSeries @SHIFT @SHIFTSeries<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m celebrating my 90 days of sobriety. I quit drinking because I thought somewhere I had fallen in that trap of addiction myself and the only way to get out of it was to acknowledge it to myself.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe here try to brush things under the carpet. People put up this facade that they are under control by saying things like \u2018It\u2019s socially acceptable,\u2019 \u2018I am not that drunk,\u2019\u201d the actress said while speaking at the SHIFT series.<\/p>\n

Pooja took the challenge of quitting alcohol on a day when people celebrate and invite friends for a drink.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was Christmas when I finally decide to pull the plug.<\/p>\n

I sat with my four cats, put my phone on the silent mode, made myself dinner, toasted myself with a glass of water and went to bed.<\/p>\n

\u201cI survived it. And I realized that this is the best gift I could ever give to myself. Soon, I survived the New Year also. Yes, it was tough. And what is also tough is explaining people why you are not drinking, especially on New Year\u2019s Eve.\u201d<\/p>\n

The actress says there were day when she could \u201ceasily gulp half a bottle of single malt\u201d but called it quits as she was \u201ctired of doing the same thing constantly.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI have Scottish genes, my grandfather was Scottish. My father was a voracious drinker, his life is known to everybody.<\/p>\n

So, drinking came naturally to me.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut then I was tired of doing the same thing constantly.<\/p>\n

And then alcohol just cannot be the solution to anything. The example of my father quitting alcohol and not touching it for past 28 years was of great help.\u201d<\/p>\n

Having played the main lead in 1989 Mahesh Bhatt-directed \u201cDaddy,\u201d a movie where she encourages her father to give up alcohol, the 45-year-old actor says she never thought that \u201cthe girl who was counseling her father in the movie will be counseling herself for the same in real life.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Shift Series \u2018Closeted Conversations… Lets Start Talking Again!\u2019 is a conference for women change makers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Actor-Director Pooja Bhatt with 82-year-old Chandro Tomar popularly known as Revolver Dadi during a women’s conference at Qila Mahrauli in New Delhi, March 23. (Press Trust of India) High on her 90 days of sobriety, Pooja Bhatt says \u201cacknowledging the fact that you are an alcoholic\u201d is already winning half the battle against this \u201cshameful…<\/p>\n

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