Actor Celina Jaitly shared a deeply personal note on social media a day after Holi, saying the festival no longer feels the way it once did. While many film stars marked the occasion with parties and family celebrations, Celina looked back on grief, distance, and the feeling of losing the idea of home itself. She wrote, “Homesick for a Place That No Longer Exists. Who do you become when you have lived outside your country as long as you lived in your parents’ home growing up?”
Holi reflection and life away from home
As reported by the Hindustan Times, Celina opened up about life in Austria and the emotional cost of living far from the people and places that once grounded her. She wrote, “You leave family, friends, work, & culture behind, slowly embracing the positives of a new land. Yet, after a while, you feel a loss. You realize you integrated all you could, but that essence… it’s difficult to integrate in a land where you were not born.”Celina said home once meant the presence of her loved ones. “Home was only where my mother’s warmth, & my father & brother’s strong love surrounded me. With them gone, strangers abroad, strangers back home, where do I find that home?” she wrote.She also described the pain of grief in direct terms. “Sometimes we don’t want to heal, because the pain is the last link we have to what we’ve lost,” she wrote, adding that she often feels unsure about where she truly belongs.
Celina Jaitly’s Holi post and legal case
In an earlier post, Celina looked back at last year’s Holi with her children. “Last Year I Waited With Holi Colours On My Face For My Boys To Return From School… This image is from last year’s Holi….I had no idea that by the next Holi I would lose all the brilliant colours of my life, and everything would suddenly turn black & white,” she wrote.She also reflected on celebrating Indian festivals abroad. “In my marriage, Indian festivals were usually very quiet, and no real effort was made to understand how much they meant to me. So it often fell upon me to introduce the boys to our festivals, our culture & our traditions in my own small ways.”In 2025, Celina filed a domestic violence case against her husband, Peter Haag. She sought 6 million USD in compensation for lost earnings and requested custody of their children. She alleged severe emotional, physical, sexual, and verbal abuse and said the situation forced her to leave her home in Austria and return to India. According to her claims, the children are currently living with Haag in Austria while legal proceedings continue.
