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It has been more than 44 years, Amitabh Bachchan has neither touched a cigarette, nor drunk alcohol nor eaten meat. However, there was a time when he was a chain smoker and used to smoke 200 cigarettes a day.
Vartika Tolani Wed, 2 Oct 2024 09:06 AM share
Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan recites Geeta every morning. Plays the sitar. Reads book in free time. But he was not always like this. There was a time when he used to be a chain-smoker. This was revealed by Amitabh himself. He had told in an interview given in the year 1980 that he used to eat meat and also drink alcohol. However, now he has left all this.
Gave up alcohol for this reason
Amitabh had said in an interview to India Today, “I neither smoke, drink alcohol nor eat meat. Earlier I used to eat meat, drink alcohol and also smoke. But, now (1980) I have left all this. When I was in Calcutta, I used to smoke 200 cigarettes a day. Yes, 200, but then I gave up cigarettes after coming to Bombay. I used to drink whatever I saw, but then I realized later that I didn’t need them.”
Does Jaya eat meat?
In such a situation, Amitabh was asked whether he left it due to religious reasons? On this, Amitabh had said, ‘I left it not for religious, but for personal reasons. In our family, my father was a vegetarian and my mother used to eat meat. Similarly, Jaya eats meat and I don’t.
Amitabh is alive on 25 percent liver
After the accident during ‘Coolie’, Amitabh had taken heavy doses of medicines. In such a situation, shortly after this accident, he suffered from a disease called Myasthenia Gravis. Then he developed liver cirrhosis due to hepatitis virus. The result was that 75 percent of his liver got infected and the doctor had to remove this 75 percent part of the liver. Apart from this, Amitabh Bachchan is suffering from asthma.
