Actor Hrithik Roshan spilled the beans of witnessing a traumatized childhood for getting a stammer and speech difficulty. He says that ‘school days were very painful’. He adds that he had a ‘bad stammer’ and was shy in nature. He is reminded of the days when he used to return home and cry.
While speaking to Indian Express, Hrithik said, “I have sometimes felt that life is very unfair. In school, I had such a bad stammer that I couldn’t speak. I never had any friends, or girlfriends. I was very shy, and would come back from school and just cry. School days were very painful…on top of that, doctors told me that I couldn’t become an actor. There were problems with my spine, doctors said ‘you cannot dance’. I was so broken, that I would wake up for months, and would think it is a dream, a lucid dream. It was so heartbreaking and relive that feeling of knowing that I could not become an actor…I am disabled. So it was very traumatising.”
“Now when I look back, I thank god, thank you for giving me the problem where I could learn how to be strong, I learnt perseverance and if I did not have a broken spine and speech impediment…for the day to be there, you have to have the night. When problems come, it becomes a game. I can hold on to this thought that I can learn from this pain, and it can shape my character. I come out stronger,” he added.
Hrithik last appeared on Vikram Bedha helmed by filmmaker duo Pushkar and Gayatri, starring Saif Ali Khan and Radhika Apte. He will be next featured in Fighter in 2024 opposite Deepika Padukone and Anil Kapoor.
