Janhvi Kapoor Recalls Sridevi Being Called 'Homewrecker', Says 'People Were Not Kind When She Was Around'

Janhvi Kapoor has opened up about how the loss of her mother, Sridevi, has impacted her life. She recalled how Sridevi would be called a homewrecker, but she would shield her kids from all negativity and not let them know about her struggles. Janhvi Kapoor also opened up about how she used to be dependent on her mother and how, after Sridevi’s death, she also lost a version of her father, Boney Kapoor.

In a recent chat with Raj Shamani, Janhvi recalled watching an old and vulnerable interview of Sridevi in which she spoke about her Bollywood struggle. Janhvi said, “I have seen that journey. People were not very kind when she was around. They called her a homewrecker and all the cruel things. It played on her mind and made her feel a certain way,

but history is kind to people who have passed.”

When asked about the one thing she could tell her mother now, she said, “I understand her now. And I am sorry that I didn’t understand her before. She was dealing with things with a completely different lens, compared to how I used to see it when I was a kid – professional, financial, and others. She started working from the age of four, but she never shared any stories of her struggles with us. She only shared happy stories.”

The actress also opened up about her grief and said that she hasn’t dealt with her trauma. Janhvi Kapoor said, “I try to escape my mind, my inner turmoil. The feelings that I haven’t dealt with, the trauma that I haven’t dealt with. The biggest trauma was losing my mom, especially the way I did, in front of the whole world and dealing with that journey.”

She said, “I was a very dependent daughter. I didn’t make my own decisions. I would depend on her for that. What should I wear? What should I think? What is wrong and right? Everything. So suddenly to make your own decisions with the world ripping you apart, making accusations on family dynamics…”

She added, “I made some bad decisions and let some people into my life that had no business being anywhere near me and taking advantage of me the way that they did. I was not putting myself in a safe space. I was compromising my mental and physical safety constantly.”

She said, “I cannot get over the pain of losing my mom. There is no one like her. I miss how funny she was. I miss who she made me, my sister and my father. I didn’t lose one parent, I lost my father also that day, the version of him that existed when she was around.” “I don’t think she would be able to recognise me now. The world has changed. I have seen things. I have opinions of my own that are not the opinions that she had. I don’t know what that interaction would look like,” Janhvi Kapoor concluded.