MUMBAI – Former Miss Universe Sushmita Sen battles life threatening disease.
She took the universe by storm with her win at the beauty pageant manyyears back and then ruled the hearts of millions as a B-Town actress.
But it has been a few years that she went missing from the movie scene. Theactress as telling in an interview with Rajeev Masand about life, moviesand much more.
Sushmita opened up in the same interview about a life-threatening diseaseshe battled. She said that back in 2014, the actress fell ill and was takento the hospital where doctors discovered that her adrenal glands hadstopped making a vital hormone, called cortisol. The actress had gone intoan adrenal crisis, which can end up in multiple organ failure. Luckily, theactress survived.
Talking about it, she revealed that it was the reason why she came onInstagram. “I was very very sick and I have hair that’s falling. I havebecome moon-faced and I have steroid deposits. During this time, a thoughtcrossed my mind, if this does kill me, people would never know who I was.So one night, I just got on to Instagram and opened that page.”
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Then in 2016, after giving a tough fight to the deadly disease, the actressrecovered. She was again hospitalised and that’s when it came out that herbody had once again started producing the same vital hormone. Therefore,soon after that, she stopped taking steroids and battled withdrawalsymptoms for a while.
She credited yoga and aerial silk sessions for leading a holistic life.
