Veteran writer in the film industry Javed Akhtar recently talked about his habit of drinking alcohol. He told that he was very addicted to drinking alcohol. Due to which he took many wrong decisions in his life. Said that if he was not an alcoholic and had fulfilled his responsibilities well, things would have been different. In the third episode of Chill Sesh, Javed Akhtar said, ‘I have wasted a lot of time by drinking alcohol. I was an alcoholic. I quit drinking forever on 31 July 1991. I think I wasted at least 10 years just drinking alcohol. If I had used that time properly, things would have been different today. Javed said, ‘I regret the breakdown of my first marriage. Due to my careless thinking and drinking habit, I could not save that relationship, because when you are drunk, you take decisions without thinking. You fight over things that are not even that big. All these mistakes have been made by me.’ Javed further said, ‘I would like to advise the youth that if you drink alcohol, then leave it, because today when I look at my life, I feel that apart from drinking alcohol, I have not made any mistake in my life. Javed Akhtar married Honey Irani in the year 1972, from whom he has two children Farhan Akhtar and Zoya Akhtar. After joining the film industry, he met Shabana Azmi. To marry Shabana, Javed divorced his first wife Honey Irani. However, even after the divorce, both of them raised the children together.
