Bobby Deol is enjoying the 2.0 phase in his career. The actor was going through a low phase in his career before he made his come back with Salman Khan in ‘Race 3’. Post that, he had web-shows like ‘Aashram’, ‘Class Of 83’ which got appreciation for him. Post ‘Animal’, he became an internet sensation and was called Lord Bobby. The actor has often spoken about his dull period when he also struggled with alcoholism. In a recent interview, he has opened up on his addiction and how wife Tanya Deol stood by him like a rock. He said in an interview with Rajat Sharma on ‘Aap Ki Adalat’, “When you give up, you get into self-pity. It’s a human nature. You feel aapki duniya khatam ho gayi hai, koi aapko pasand nai karta aur kuch aapko addictions lag jaate hai, aapko sedate karne ke liye. Aur papa ko toh waise bhi shauk tha. Main peene lag gaya. Pehle aap daaru peene lagte hai phir daaru aapko peene lagti hai. Par meri wife joh hai, she is my spine. She is my backbone, my everything. Ek aurat hi sehen kar sakti hai ke ek husband kis daur se guzar raha hai. Meri personality mein change, mera gussa, mera irritation, agar Tania meri zindagi mein nahi hoti, shayad main yahan aapke saath baithke baat nahi kar raha hota. (When you get into self-pity, you feel the world for you has ended, nobody likes you anymore and you get to addictions. My father always liked to drink and I just got addicted to it. The thing about alcohol is that first you drink it and then it drinks you, but my wife Tanya stood by me. Only a wife can take it all, her husband’s changing personality, his irritability, anger, frustration and if Tanya wasn’t by my side, I wouldn’t be sitting here today, doing this interview).” He further added, “Usne ghar sambhala, kharch woh karti thi. She works. Usne kabhi waisa mujhe feel karne nahi diya. Mujhe hamesha kehti thi, tu kyun aisa sochta hai apne baare mein. Par soch tab hi badalti hai jab woh aapke andar se aati hai. Aur mere andar se aayi jab mere bacche puchne lage meri wife se ke pappa ghar pe hi baithe rehte hai, aap office jaati ho. Tab mere ko ekdum se kuch hua. Children look up to you. That’s when I suddenly snapped out and started working on myself. (She took care of our house financially. She was working and bearing all the expenses at home. It was when my children started asking why I was always sitting at home and their mother would go to office that something snapped within in and I decided to work on myself).” Bobby will be seen next in Anurag Kashyaps’ ‘Bandar’, set to release on June 5.
