HT Exclusive In 2014, while Deepika was being appreciated for her work, she was struggling with depression. She opens up about how counselling and medicines helped her get through the shooting of Happy New Year, and how she finally accepted her condition.

Deepika Padukone recently appeared on a news channel to talk about her battle with depression. In January this year, she broke her silence for the first time in an HT exclusive to tell the world that she was struggling with anxiety and depression, at a time when she was establishing her credentials as one of Bollywood’s most sought after actors. Here’s the article in which she bared her heart for the first time about how she straddled these two aspects of her life and came out a winner.