After going away from social media over five months ago, actor Babil Khan returned to Instagram and wrote a long note sharing his thoughts on the reason he went away from the platform.
Babil posted a photo where he is wearing a red sweatshirt and looking intensely towards the camera. In the caption, he wrote, “Didn’t mean to eavesdrop. This glass house has lean walls. I wore my heart on my sleeves, now I have blood-soaked t-shirts. I needed time to heal. My demons left me with deep cuts. Insomnia and panic had me making wired confessions. I was crying out for help, I couldn’t stifle my expression.”
He added, “The toll was heavy on my health, my soul was tired of repression, ‘you were fighting with your girl while I was fighting my depression…wait..’”
In May, Babil shared distressing videos on his stories where he was seen crying, naming some actors and talking about the challenges of being in the film industry. He later deactivated his account for some time. In the deleted video, Babil dropped names of several celebrities like Ananya Panday, Arjun Kapoor, Shanaya Kapoor, Siddhant Chaturvedi, Raghav Juyal, Adarsh Gourav and Arijit Singh in one of the videos and followed it up by saying, “Bollywood is so screwed,” leading to many on the internet wonder if he is being isolated in the industry.
Later, his family and team issued a statement stating that the actor had a “difficult day” and that he mentioned the celebrities’ names from a “place of genuine admiration” and for “their authenticity, passion, and efforts to restore credibility and heart in the industry”.
The actor was last seen in the cyber-thriller, Logout, which came out on ZEE5 earlier this year.
