Why Pooja Bhatt, Almost 4 Years Sober, "Chose To Recover Openly"

Actress-filmmaker Pooja Bhatt, who never holds back when it comes to opening up about her battle with alcoholism, wrote about the stigmatisation of "addictive behaviour" in an Instagram post. Today marks an important day for Pooja Bhatt, who wrote: "Three years and nine months sober today. One more quarter and I will be four. As someone who drank openly, I chose to recover openly.

I truly felt it was important to share my journey to tell others, women especially, who might be struggling that they are not alone and if I could do it so could they. Was ridiculed by some but lauded for being courageous by most." Earlier, Pooja Bhatt had revealed she quit drinking on Christmas Eve in 2016.

Having battled alcoholism herself, Pooja Bhatt implied that simply because drinking is a "social accepted" behaviour, one must not oversee the truth behind it. Instead, she said, normalising talks around recovering from alcoholism is the need of the hour: "I wondered why people termed speaking openly about addiction issues courageous.