Deepika Padukone started mental health foundation after friend’s death, says dad Prakash | Bollywood News
It was in 2015, alongside her mother, that Deepika Padukone broke the silence and stigma around depression, sharing for the first time on television her battle with the illness. Since then, she has not only spoken repeatedly about mental health awareness but also established her foundation, The Live Love Laugh Foundation, aimed at empowering people in the country to speak up about their mental health and accept it without guilt or shame. Recently, her father and ace badminton player Prakash Padukone, speaking on The Something Bigger Show with Rodrigo Canelas, opened up about his and his wife’s decision to support Deepika when she chose to share her experience publicly. “We had no objection at all to her going public if it was helping others, because she was in a position where she could help people. I think she realised that, so she came out and spoke about it. Then, a few months later, one of her friends passed away, and that was when she decided that something should be done so that more and more …
