‘I felt disgusted all the way home’: Neena Gupta reveals she was molested as a kid

Neena Gupta has spoken up about why she didn't tell her mother about being assaulted as a child by a doctor and a tailor. In her autobiography, Sach Kahun Toh, the actor recalled both happy and sad experiences from her school days.

In the book, Neena shared an account of her visit to an optician and said that her brother was asked to sit in the waiting room while she was inside. She wrote, “The doctor started with examining my eye and then went down to check out other areas that were unconnected with my eye. I was scared stiff while it was happening and felt disgusted all the way home.

“I sat in a corner in the house and cried my eyes out when nobody was looking. But I didn’t dare tell my mother about this because I was so scared that she would say that it was my fault. That I had probably said or done something to provoke him.” She added, “This happened to me many times at the doctor’s.”

Neena shared a story about her visit to the tailor, claiming that he was "very handsy" when collecting her measurements. She went on to say that she was forced to return even after the incident. “Because I felt like I had no choice. If I told my mother that I didn’t want to go to them, she would ask me why and I would have to tell her,” she explained.

Neena Gupta released her autobiography, 'Sach Kahun Toh,' which was virtually unveiled by Kareena Kapoor Khan. In the book, she made a number of surprising and intriguing admissions, including the five-year period when Vivian Richards did not talk to her.