Pavitra Rishta Actor Karan Veer Mehra Opens Up About Divorce With Wife, Alcoholism And Life After His Bike Accident!

Karan Veer Mehra has been one of the actors who soared to success in his initial days, but has been going somewhat slow for the last few years. While fans may be yearning to see more of him on TV, they have been getting just some glimpses of the actor so far. In a recent interview with Bombay Times, the actor bared his heart and revealed that he has been going through some major trouble in his personal life ever since he had a bike accident in 2016. He also said that he had been an alcoholic and that he divorced as well.

Karan has revealed that it was success that got the better of him and made him reckless. In fact, he decided to get married in a day!

“Once I came to Bombay and my career soared, I began to follow a very lavish lifestyle. The flipside of this early success was that I became reckless — reckless enough to take a serious step like marriage without any thought. I decided on marriage within a day and she also agreed, though we had fought just the previous evening! So, I believe that she was also equally reckless.”

But Karan has not stopped believing in love or marriages and is also seeing someone now!

“I belong to a very loving family that holds this institution in high regard. Maybe, we were not made for each other. I don’t blame or disrespect the institution of marriage and I’m not disillusioned either. In fact, I could take the plunge again, but if that doesn’t happen, I am still keen to have children. Industry bigwigs like Karan Johar, Tusshar and Ekta Kapoor have taught us about the pleasures of single parenthood. So, despite my failed marriage, I still have a lot of love left in me. Today, I have learnt to accept and share, but I still need someone who can give me love and care. I am close to someone, but not close enough to call her mine. At the same time, I can’t call myself single and available either.”

He also talked about his bike accident which had left him bed-ridden for five months. Such had been his condition that he had to take resort to alcohol to put himself to sleep.

“I would drink to put myself to sleep in those days and that’s how I got into alcohol. I wasn’t earning anything. One day, looking into the mirror at my out-of-shape body, I said to myself, ‘Is this the guy who came to become something in this city of dreams?’ That was the moment when I decided to take charge of my life and soon got a grip over myself. I stopped drinking, my physiotherapy began and I hit the gym. So, my ‘rehab’ happened internally. Never live in denial, the trick is to accept, fight and overcome. I fought my depression full throttle and luckily work, be it films, TV, theatre or web, started coming my way.”

Karan was seen playing Swara Bhasker’s husband in the web show, It’s Not That Simple. He hd begun his career with the hit serial ‘Remix’ and has worked in serials like Behenein and Pavitra Rishta. He has also been part of Bollywood films like Ragini MMS 2, Mere Dad Ki Maruti and Blood Money.