Karan Johar Baring His Heart Out About Battling Clinical Depression Will Leave You Teary-Eyed!

Karan Johar's films have larger than life characters, 'Malhotra's' and 'Raichands''and their castle-like homes and mothers who can sense their son's homecoming. From Kuch Kuch Hota Hai to Ae Dil Hai Mushkil, people have never doubted KJo's filmmaking skills.

Apart from being Dharma's head honcho and a filmmaker, people have safely assumed that KJO has a perfect life and people from the industry could kill to work in his film. Well, his latest interview will surely give you a glimpse of another side of the story.?

After Deepika Padukone spoke about her depression on national media, Karan Johar in his recent interview with NDTV bared his heart out about the "darkest phase" of his life. In an interview to NDTV, Karan Johar spoke about the time where all he felt was lonely and depressed. Talking about his urge to never leave the city, he said,?

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“It was dark, deep and helpless time. There was nothing I could do about it. I stopped feeling excitement and happiness. There was lack of sleep and I was always on the edge. I think I hadn’t dealt entirely with the loss of my father. There was also the fear that I was not able to find my life partner. There is so much love I get from my friends but where do I take it all? I used to feel very lonely."

However, he never wants to blame Bollywood or the film industry as the cause of his depression. Clarifying the same, he added,

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"I think the industry per se should not be generalised for the reason of your loneliness but you really wonder how many of your relationships matter. We live in this bubble all the time. We don’t know if the emotions we have are just for the film or do I take it further. And at 44, when you don’t have a life partner or kids, it is difficult to deal with.”

Talking about his clinical depression, he added,?

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“It is a recent kind of anxiety I have discovered about myself. At one point I thought I was having a cardiac arrest but my doctor said it was an anxiety attack. I then met a psychiatric and took medication. And this was just two years ago. I stopped my medication just three months back."

Watch Karan Johar speaking about the 'darkest phase' of his life here: