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Vivek Dahiya REVEALS that he was a compulsive gambler and what led him to leave the habit
Vivek Dahiya who is best known for his roles in Yeh Hai Mohabbatein, Kavach...Kaali Shaktiyon Se and Qayamat Ki Raat recently in an interview with Times of India opened up about the gambling addiction that he had during his college days in the UK.
Vivek Dahiya who is best known for his roles in Yeh Hai Mohabbatein, Kavach...Kaali Shaktiyon Se and Qayamat Ki Raat recently in an interview with Times of India opened up about the gambling addiction that he had during his college days in the UK. He revealed that it took three years to leave the habit. Vivek also said that he got addicted to gambling in the year 2006 and he was 19 years old then.
He said, "I had started working part-time at a retail store while I was in the second year of college. One day, a friend took me to a casino, and call it the beginner’s luck or something else, I won money that day. I was thrilled, as it would have taken me a week to earn that amount. Soon, I started visiting the casino regularly after work." He also said how his colleagues suggested him to get rid of the vice but he avoided their advice. He later became a compulsive gambler and would bet his month's salary. He even once offered car keys to someone in return for some money for gambling.
He also added how his sudden gambling habit was also stopped in a similar way when he heard a cabbie's story. He recollected, “One night, I had lost a lot of money and was left with just five pounds to catch a cab home. The cabbie, a Bangladeshi, asked me how the night was, referring to my visit to the casino. Since I wasn’t in the right frame of mind, I didn’t want to talk to anyone. And then, he narrated his story to me. He was an uneducated man, who relocated from Dhaka years ago. He saved up enough money to buy a cab and got married to an Indian girl. He was hard-working, and in a few years, became the owner of seven taxis. He also bought two houses in Cardiff. However, on one fateful evening, his friend took him to a casino and his life went downhill since then. He became addicted to gambling and lost everything. He became bankrupt and his wife left him along with his two kids. His story did what no advice could do; that was the last day I went to a casino.”
He also said how any kind of addiction is destructive and how it starts to consume you. He wants to create awareness about addiction and asked everyone to not be in denial and seek help.
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