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‘Lonely’ Karan Johar says he can’t be at parties with 100 people anymore: ‘Don’t want to burden someone else with my thoughts’

Karan Johar shared that he is a lonely person and likes to keep his thoughts to himself.

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Karan Johar grew up isolated from the rest of his film industry friends, but as he got older, he positioned himself at the centre of the action. He has always projected himself as someone who loves to socialise and attend parties, but in the last few years, Karan has started pulling away from that lifestyle. In a new interview, he shared that he is a lonely person who likes to keep his thoughts to himself.

In a chat with Raj Shamani on his YouTube channel, Karan said, “I am a lonely person. I believe that most people are lonely.” He said that one can be surrounded by a bunch of people but they “cannot replace your sense of loneliness.” He added, “If you are a lonely person, you will be a lonely person. And even a relationship might not fill that void. I might be lonely in a relationship. I am a lonely person and I have two beautiful children and an absolutely lovely mother, some great friendships. I am blessed with the friends I have.”

Karan said that he doesn’t like to share his regular thoughts with others. “I don’t want to burden someone else with my thoughts. I just like to keep it to myself. When you have a lot of thoughts that you don’t share, you invariably become lonely because then your thoughts become your friends. And that loneliness doesn’t bother you anymore, you make it a part of yourself. Do I like being lonely? Yes. I am a lonely person but not an unhappy person,” he said.

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Karan said that he has been on anxiety medication but therapy does not work for him anymore as he believes that he can be his own therapist. “I am very in touch with my feelings so even when I did therapy… I have been through anxiety as well. I went on anxiety medication because that needed to be addressed, it was at that juncture in my life that I needed to address it. But I don’t do therapy anymore because even though I am not a trained therapist, I can be my own therapist. I can find solutions to my problems and I can even get to the root of my problems and find the cause,” he said.

Karan shared that “social anxiety has become a part of my life for the last couple of years.” He said that he cannot attend parties anymore and he prefers to leave shortly after he arrives. “People think I attend parties but I don’t go anywhere. I just go to a party and leave in five minutes. I can’t stay. I have to stay at my own parties and that’s why I have stopped throwing parties. I don’t want to meet people. I am very happy with my friends. They come to my home and I visit their home but I don’t want to meet 100 people,” he said.

In an earlier chat on Koffee with Karan, Karan had shared that he had a panic attack during the opening of NMACC in Mumbai a few years ago. “Varun (Dhawan) was staring at me. I was sweating, and I didn’t even realise it. He came to me and he held my hand, and said ‘Are you okay?’ My hands were shaking. He took me to an empty room and I started breathing. I first thought, ‘Is this a cardiac arrest? What am I going through?’ I got out of my jacket, which was kind of long and elaborate. And I just left like in half an hour,” he shared.

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