Eijaz Khan’s stint in the Bigg Boss 14 house was quite traumatic. From being age-shamed by fellow contestants to being ridiculed by Kavita Kaushik for feeding him during the lockdown, the popular television actor went through a lot during his stay inside the house. It’s been a year since he participated in the show, and he still hasn’t gotten over his stay in the House.
Traumatic ‘Bigg Boss’ events still haunt Eijaz Khan
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After his spell, he consciously tries to stay away from the show as the events still trigger him. In an interview with The Times Of India, he said, “The more I see Bigg Boss or its contestants, the more I get triggered. I am still getting over everything that I went through inside that house. I am still figuring out what all I felt. Suddenly, I keep getting dreams about the house. I dream about Sidharth Shukla sometimes. His demise also affected me a lot because I was very close to him back then. Sometimes I dream about the fights that I had. They were so cruel. I am not that cruel a person. I’d rather live and let live.”
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Elaborating further on dealing with the Bigg Boss trauma, he said, “I relive the trauma sometime and that is why I try to stay away from that universe consciously and not because my therapist asked me to. I feel, I haven’t processed a lot of things yet, because after coming out, we didn’t live a normal life. After coming out, again there was a lockdown, so it was only Pavitra and I. We keep reminding each other about Bigg Boss and we never got on to live that normal life where we had any kind of escape of venting out to another person – it’s happened but very less, not how situations were during the pre-COVID days.”
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“I will talk about Bigg Boss, I will want to watch the show, I will see it objectively and laugh about it. If I am talking about trauma, I also feel that I wanted to complete my journey, I wanted to be the person who switched off those lights, wanted to be in the top two, I miss that. The urge is still there within me because it wasn’t fulfilled. I didn’t get any closure. Sometimes, you just see a person in BB, you like them, sometimes, you just don’t like the vibe around them,” he concluded.
Ex-contestants on how ‘Bigg Boss’ affects mental health
This is not the first time a contestant has spoken about how the show wrecks their mental health, and it takes months and years to get over it. Previously, contestants like Rubina Dilaik and Jasmin Bhasin had also shared their post-Bigg Boss experience and how they haven’t gotten over the bad memories during her stint, and it still haunts and affects them.
Eijaz has our sympathies and we wish him a full recovery from the trauma!
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