3 min readNew DelhiMay 22, 2026 07:01 PM IST When Sanjay Dutt was accused of illegal possession of prohibited firearms, including an AK-56 rifle and a 9 mm pistol linked to the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts, his daughter Trishala Dutt was just five years old. Three years later, she lost her mother, Richa Sharma, yet she says she never blamed her father for anything he went through. Speaking to Inside Thoughts Out Loud, the 38-year-old reflected on her father’s turbulent journey and said, “He struggled through addiction at such a young age, going through that, coming out of it, then going to jail, coming out of that, then going back to jail, and staying three years over there and coming back out. I can’t imagine what that must have felt like.” Trishala Dutt further shared how difficult it was to cope while the entire world watched her family’s struggles play out publicly. “It was hard because I couldn’t talk to him in the moment because he is going through something and even if I was …