‘Pavitra Rishta’ fame Karan Veer Mehra opens up about his divorce, says ‘maybe, we were not made for each other’

By Television Reporter

on September 27, 2019

Life has not been easy for television actor Karan Veer Mehra in the last few years. The actor met with a serious accident, went through a separation with wife Devika and also battled alcoholism. Recently, in an interview to a leading daily, Karan said that the success made him reckless.

“Once I got to do a lot of shows and my career soared, I began to follow a very lavish lifestyle. The flipside of this early success was that I became reckless — reckless enough to take a serious step like marriage without any thought. I decided on marriage within a day and she also agreed, though we had fought just the previous evening,” Karan Veer said in a statement.

Karan Veer married his childhood sweetheart Devika, whom he had known for a decade. However, after eight years of marriage, the two got divorced. The actor said, “Maybe, we were not made for each other. A childhood friendship of 10 years and another eight of marriage could not withstand the blitz of the glamour world. As my career grew, she also chose to become a part of this charismatic world, and soon, we began to drift apart. I felt like I had begun to slip from her list of priorities. Consequently, our equations changed and I got linked to actresses, actors and creative producers, and it was the beginning of the end.”

Talking about his habit of drinking, Karan Veer said, “I met with a bike accident in December, 2016, and was bedridden for over five months. I would drink to put myself to sleep in those days and that’s how I got into alcohol. I wasn’t earning anything. This is the volatile nature of an actor’s life, but I never stopped fighting, thanks to my family and upbringing.”

He further added, “Narcissism also helped me out. One day, looking into the mirror at my out-of-shape body, I said to myself, ‘Is this the guy who came to become something in this city of dreams?’ That was the moment when I decided to take charge of my life and soon got a grip over myself. I stopped drinking, my physiotherapy began and I hit the gym.”

On work front, Karan Veer has been part of TV shows including Remix, Virrudh, Pavitra Rishta, TV, Biwi Aur Main and many more.

(Source: Bombay Times)