Actor Rajpal Yadav emerged as one of the most loved comic actors of the generation, but not without dealing with his own tragedies. The actor opened up about his life and how he dealt with the death of his first wife when he was just a 20-year-old. In an interview with The Lallantop, Rajpal revealed the tragedy struck him at an age when a person "isn't capable of handling the weight of emotions." The actor said he was selected to work at Ordnance Clothing factory, and the entire village spoke about how at such a young age he had managed to get a job. What followed eventually, was marriage. "Back in the day, if you were a 20-year-old man with a job, people would ask your family to get you married. So, my father got me married. My first wife, she just delivered a baby, a daughter, and died. I was supposed to meet her the next day but was then carrying her dead body on my shoulders. But thanks to my family, my mother, my sister-in-law, it never felt like my daughter didn't have her mother, she grew up with a lot of love." After his first wife died in 1991, Rajpal said he took 13 years to establish himself as an actor, during which time he had studied in NSD, done TV and films. In 2000, when his film Jungle released, the actor felt "settled". "I was 31 and then I met Radha. I had gone to shoot The Hero in 2001, where we met and remained in touch. We got married in 2003, after both families agreed to it." View this post on Instagram A post shared by Rajpal Naurang Yadav (@rajpalofficial) Rajpal credited Radha for standing by side through everything, adapting to his family and raising his daughter from his first wife as her own. "Believe you me, I have never asked my wife to wear saree or anything. The way I talk to my mother, my wife talks to her the same way. She learnt the language, one day when I reached the village, I saw that woh muh dhak ke baithi hui hai, because in villages women live a certain way. Whenever she visits the village-during Holi and Diwali-no one can gauge that she knows five languages! There was zero effort from my side. "After my guru, my parents, the one who supported me the most is my wife, 100 percent. Radha also raised the daughter I had from my first wife, as her own. She is in Lucknow today, happily married but the credit goes to my family and wife. I did nothing, I was just a medium, everything came along and helped," he added.
