Abhishek Bachchan recently opened up about battling Coronavirus and being hospitalised for the same. “Everybody has their own unique experience with COVID. I think people react to it differently. It was not a nice experience for me because my family was infected as well. If you are in a situation where you are under medical supervision, you are very powerless,” said Abhishek during a podcast.

“Your life is being run by the medical teams, so you are not really in control of your faculties in that sense and you don’t really have any power over what you do. It was tough to sleep in the initial nights I was at the hospital as I didn’t know what awaited me on the other side,” he added.

Abhishek said his father got him through his sleepless nights in the hospital. “Initially, my father and I were in the hospital together. A week later my wife (Aishwarya Rai Bachchan) and daughter (Aaradhya) were hospitalized. Thankfully, they only had to be there for about a week, but my dad and I stayed longer as we hadn’t tested negative,” he said, adding, “It was wonderful to wake up and go see my father, who was 78 last year, and someone with severe co-morbidities. But he was positive and had the fighting spirit to get through this. At that point my energies were obviously directed towards him and him becoming better because you fear for your parents, it’s actually of a sensitive age group.”

Seeing Big B’s fighting spirit was inspirational for Abhishek. “He is a great friend of mine, so it was good to shoot the breeze with him. When you are a COVID patient, although you can interact with other patients, there is nothing else to do, you just have to wait around. I mean he is a good roomie in that sense,” he said.

Reflecting on what COVID and the last year taught him, Abhishek said, “It taught me that you got to value your relationship and the fact that you have a happy and healthy family around you. There was a point I was frustrated during the lockdown, but then my wife put things into perspective for me and told me how for the first time in many years I could sit back, not be working round the clock and just enjoy the company of my family in the safety of my home. That by itself, is a blessing.”

— IANS