Honey Singh Opens Up About His Darkest Period: Bipolar Disorder and Struggles
Honey Singh finally opened up about the darkest period of his life. He talked about how bipolar disorder , drug use, and insane paranoia pushed him completely away from the spotlight for almost seven years.
He spoke on the ABtalks podcast about how those struggles started. It was all while he was juggling so much—a music reality show in Mumbai, an international tour with Shah Rukh Khan. He was Yo Yo Honey Singh then, the biggest pop star in India.
He said the sickness started back in 2014. He admitted he was using drugs for two years, 2012 to 2014. Not the A-class stuff, mind you, but smoking a ton. It just took over him.
That was when he started feeling the symptoms of Bipolar disorder .
It began with just suspicion. Fear of death. Fear of people. Then the sickness hit. Bipolar disorder, it just doesn’t make sense in words.
He worked with Bollywood stars, but Akshay Kumar and Shah Rukh Khan, especially SRK, they told him that what he was doing with the drugs would just end him.
There was this moment in Chicago. Someone was with him. She told him he had to go for rehearsal. He couldn't. He was full of these awful, suspicious thoughts that he’d die right there on stage.
The fear got so intense. He started looking for ways to just skip the performances.
He picked up a trimmer. Shaved half his head. Then they told him they’d make him wear a cap. He just felt this resistance. Like people weren’t getting it.
He called his sister for help eventually. But still, he kept working. He withdrew completely from public life, eventually.
He was on stage. Did two songs. Then he just left. Went home. Locked himself up for seven years. He never wanted anyone to see him like that on his phone. No running information. He thought the devil was talking to him. No communication. No calls. No TV. No internet.
For three years, he just stayed in his bedroom. When he showered, he’d leave the bathroom door open. He was terrified of dying.
Bipolar disorder really messed up his daily life. It brought these destructive thoughts. Thoughts that weren't real, but they felt totally real.
During 2018 and 2019, his mental state got so bad. He genuinely started believing he was dead.
He spent a long time sitting there. Thinking he was already gone. Stuck somewhere between heaven and hell. Then food would come. His mother would say, ‘eat.’ And he’d think it was his last meal. But where was he going after that?
Talking about getting better, he said a big shift happened when he changed doctors and meds. Years of taking the same stuff didn't fix anything.
But when he finally decided to leave the house, he changed doctors. They changed some medicines. New ones. They kept the salt the same, but the dosage was totally different. He got better in just four weeks.
He was also honest about the physical toll of all that heavy medication. He gained a lot of weight. And he lost all his hair.
“I was on heavy medication for seven years,” he said. “I became 105 kilos because of it. And I lost all my hair. This isn't real hair. I’m totally bald. It’s a wig. I speak about it because I don’t feel like myself. They made me. I’m just property.”
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