Filmmaker Pooja Bhatt took to her social media to announce her sobriety. She announced via a heartfelt post that she gave up alcoholism seven years ago, sometime in 2016.
Sharing pictures showing sunlight outside her window along with a sun-kissed photo of herself, she wrote in her caption, “When the going gets tough, the tough surrender. Seven years sober today. Gratitude, humility, grace! To those who need to hear this – you are not alone and if I could do it, so can you."
Pooja added the hashtags 'sobriety rocks', 'sober life', 'sober living', 'one step at a time', 'one day at a time', 'own your story', 'share your journey', 'end the stigma', 'end the shame', 'recovery is real', 'recovery is beautiful', 'recovery is the new cool' to her caption.
Earlier this year, on 'Bigg Boss OTT 2,' Bhatt bravely shared her story of getting over alcoholism at 44 years of age. Pooja, who made it to the top five contestants on the show, said, "I had a drinking problem, and that's why I acknowledged my addiction and made the decision to quit."
Additionally, she said how women don't get to voice their opinions on addiction as openly as opposed to the opposite gender. The 'Jism 2' director said on the show, "Society gives a license to men and thus they can openly speak about being addicted and recovering from alcoholism. However, women don't openly drink and so they don't openly recover. I used to drink openly so when I thought of recovering from alcoholism I realised that why should I recover in the closet? People used to call me an alcoholic but then I said I'm a recovering alcoholic."
