Girija Oak Godbole Recalls Taking Therapy At 17 After Parents’ Painful Divorce: There’s Something Wrong With Me

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actress Girija Oak Godbole is all set to feature in a web series, Perfect Family, alongside Neha Dhupia, Gulshan Devaiah, Manoj Pahwa and Seema Pahwa. She has now been labelled as the latest national crush after she appeared in Inspector Zende opposite Manoj Bajpayee. Talking about Perfect Family, the web series deals with family therapy. In a recent interview, Girija Oak Godbole confessed that she comes from a broken family. She opened up about her parents’ divorce and its impact on her.

Girija Oak Godbole on her parents’ divorce

Girija Oak Godbole’s father is a celebrated Marathi actor, Girish Oak. While speaking about his divorce with his mother, the actress said, “I come from a broken family. They separated when I was much younger. Mine wasn’t preventive therapy. It was more to seek a cure – as a result of a symptomatic problem I was going through. The first reaction was to go to a physician – my family doctor – to see what’s wrong with me. There was something wrong with me, only not physically. He directed me to a psychiatrist. During my first conversation with her, she told me to speak to a therapist. I was 17 when I first took therapy.” Girija also recalled how the dynamics changed in her family. She wished her parents too had accompanied her to those therapy sessions. It wasn’t a thing to deal with. While speaking about the impact, Girija Oak Godbole said, “When my family broke up, there was a lot of guilt on their part also. It was a choice between what they should do for themselves as individuals and what they should do for the whole unit. When that clashed, they were burdened with a lot of guilt. My parents chose themselves. I had so many questions. I wish I could take them both with me, and we could do this as a family because when you spend so much time with someone, that relationship is marked with a lot of baggage.”Also Read : Blue Saree Girl Girija Oak REACTS To AI-Morphed Images Of Her: They Sexualise, Objectify Me She concluded her statement by stating, “I can’t share a lot of things with my mother, maybe because she knows me too well. Had she been a stranger, I perhaps could’ve opened up to her. Intermittently, as and when I feel the need to talk, I go to my therapist. It has been a long relationship and not with one therapist. I couldn’t go back to the same person, and so, I changed therapists over the years. But it has been an ongoing process for me.” Talking about Girija Oak Godbole, the actress has worked in several Marathi and Hindi films. She shared screen space with Aamir Khan in Taare Zameen Par. Girija is now actively working in Hindi web series. Stay tuned for more updates!