Amidst the
Narcotics Control Bureau
’s crackdown on the drug nexus in Bollywood, a video of
Kangana Ranaut saying “Mein drug addict thi” has now gone viral.
The video in question was shared by the actress on her social media handle in March. In the clip, the actress claimed that she ran away from home as a teen and even admitted becoming a drug addict on her journey to stardom in the Bollywood film industry.
The clip saw her reaching out to her fans amidst the lockdown and on the fifth day of the Navratras. Besides expending her greetings, she also asked her fans if they were “feeling bored, upset, depressed and even crying a lot” which she said is a “good thing” and that it should be looked at with a positive perspective.
“Bure vakt ko bura mat samajhna,” she said before going on to narrate an instance from her youth.
“I became a film star in a couple of years. I was a drug addict. So much was happening in my life. I fell into the hands of wrong people and all of this happened while I was still a teenager. Imagine how dangerous I am,” she said with a smirk in the video.
Watch the full video below:
Shortly before her arrival in Mumbai city, Kangana said that she would help the federal agency by naming Bollywood actors who she claimed consumed drugs. In a series of tweets she also said that she was more than willing to take a drug test herself.
She said,“I am more than happy to oblige @MumbaiPolice @AnilDeshmukhNCP please do my drug tests investigate my call records if you find any links to drug peddlers ever I will accept my mistake and leave Mumbai forever, looking forward to meet you." [sic]
Meanwhile, the Anti-Narcotics Cell of the Mumbai Police on Friday started a probe into actor Ranaut’s alleged
drug links
.
Maharashtra home minister
Anil Deshmukh had said it had been brought to his notice that actor
Shekhar Suman’s son
Adhyayan Suman, who was in a relationship with Ranaut, had in a 2016 interview claimed she consumed drugs and even forced him to take it.