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Kangana Ranaut, who has one foot in the world of films and the other in the world of politics, is having to contend with controversial past statements. She is currently gearing up for the release of her film Emergency, and in a promotional interview, she was asked about her past comments about having done drugs. She denied having made any such statement, contrary to what she had said in past interviews and a video shared on her own Instagram account.
In a recent conversation with The Lallantop, when the now-MP was asked about her 2020 statement in which she had called herself a ‘star and a drug addict’, she said, “When you stay with your family, you find yourself in a very protected environment. But, when you cut off from them, you get exposed to various circumstances. You leave home to explore the world, to understand the difference between the right and wrong. When you are a free spirited person, every place that’s alarming, intriguing, beautiful, and dark, makes you curious. You get attracted towards it.”
Kangana suggested that she was simply experimenting, and dabbling in method acting. She said, “When I was doing Gangster, I played the role of an alcoholic. In the film Woh Lamhe, I played a character who was suffering from bipolar disorder and Schizophrenia. In Fashion, my character was a cocaine addict and had drug withdrawal symptoms. That was a phase of my life. Call it a way of method acting or your youthfulness… It was all just an experience,” she said.
Kangana said that she was also swayed by her surroundings, as she would watch people on film sets smoking. “Because you are young, you are very open-minded. If you will see today’s Kangana and her beliefs, do you think she can achieve the same level of success that the young Kangana achieved? I don’t think so. That quality is now missing in me. I don’t have the innocence of a 16-year-old anymore. Now, I am mature. I know the difference between the right and wrong. Now, I know it’s a rave party, I will not go to one. But the younger Kangana wouldn’t have, and that’s the only reason why I became ‘Kangana Ranaut’ in the first place.”
“I wasn’t scared back then, and drugs intrigued me as a teenager. I played a model in Fashion. She was on the streets. I wanted to understand what drug withdrawals are, how they feel. For the kind of feelings I had to portray on screen, I experimented with things,” said Kangana. When asked if she experimented with all kind of drugs, she went back on her statement, and said, ‘I didn’t experiment with any drugs, I just did my research, I met people, I spoke to them.”
She then asked why her achievements aren’t highlighted as well. “Why are you focusing on whether or not I did drugs? Why are you not focusing on the 15-year-old girl, who had left her home, who had all the money and fame, yet didn’t become an alcoholic, drug addict, item girl, or a high society prostitute. She didn’t become a lot of things that the world wanted to make her. She became who I am today,” she said, adding that this is the aspect of her life that should be highlighted.
During the pandemic, Kangana shared a video on her Instagram handle — it’s still available on her feed — in which she admitted to having done drugs. “This time is not bad time, do not think of it like that. Bad times are actually good times. Friends, I was 15 or 16 when I ran away from my house, and I used to feel like I could grab the stars with my hands. After I left my house, I was a film star and a drug addict within one and a half or two years of it. My life was so messed up, I was with certain type of people from whom only death could have saved me. All of this happened in my life when I was only a teenager.” She then credited a friend for introducing her to Yoga, which helped her emerge from these difficulties. “After that I took Swami Vivekananda as my guru and under his guidance, I groomed myself a lot,” she had said.
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