After comedian Tanmay Bhat revealed on Instagram that he is suffering from clinical depression and is worried he might never get back to working in comedy or "operating to my potential", Twitter has been reacting to his post and how!
Netizens have been showing their anger over how the comedian is brushing aside and not addressing what happened in the #MeToo movement in October 2018. Twitter users aren’t happy with the fact that he is playing victim here, despite him defending the culprits back then.
In a series of Instagram videos shared on Saturday, 29 June, the comedian said he feels "super worried" thinking that his “state of paralysis is permanent.”
Take a look at Tanmay’s post below.
"For most of my adult I life I worked at a company that I was trying to build. Letting the office go, all the people who worked with us, having to say good bye to that took a toll on me mentally and physically. Which finally came to a headway around the end of last year," he said in the video.
The comedian said doctors have diagnosed him with clinical depression and told him to "consider doing something about it."
“A lot of you have been asking fair questions- why don't you move on, why don't you rebuild, but for some reason, I have just watched something that I have worked for last part of my adult life come crashing down. I have just been staring at the rubble going 'what now?'”
Tanmay came under attack for his inaction in the complaints against fellow comic Utsav Chakraborty when the #MeToo movement exploded in India in October 2018.
In May, Tanmay’s comedy group AIB announced that he will step down from the post of CEO and that the company's YouTube channel is "dead for the foreseeable future".
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