Pooja Bhatt, who has recently been vocal about her battle with alcohol addiction, says it’s not alcohol but loneliness that lies behind the problem. Speaking at ‘Let’s Start Talking Again’, a conference for woman change-makers in New Delhi, she said:
“I stopped drinking by first acknowledging that I had a drinking problem. Because you are a woman and you live in a society where they are always taught or forced to brush things under the carpet. We tend to bury this shameful habit that we have of covering it up and say, ‘Oh, we don’t have a problem, it is somebody else’s and I am not that drunk’.”
