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Aug 24, 2024 08:30 AM IST
KL Rahul and Hardik Pandya confronted large backlash after they appeared on Karan Johar’s chat present, Koffee With Karan. KL Rahul stated the interview ‘modified’ him.
Again in 2019, amid controversy over the ‘inappropriate’ feedback made by cricketers Hardik Pandya and KL Rahul on Koffee With Karan (KWK), their episode was pulled down by Disney+ Hotstar. Now, throughout an interview on WTF is with Nikhil Kamath, KL Rahul opened up about his KWK interview that noticed him and Hardik face sanctions over ‘sexist’ feedback made on the chat present. Additionally learn | Koffee with Karan: Karan Johar says he’s ‘scared’ to name cricketers after KL Rahul and Hardik Pandya controversy
‘The interview was a unique world’
The cricketer, who’s married to actor Athiya Shetty, stated, “The interview was a unique world. That modified me. Fully modified me. I used to be a really shy, soft-spoken boy rising up. Then I performed for India and have become very assured, I had no downside being in an enormous group of individuals. Individuals will know I’ve been in a room of 100 individuals as a result of I’d speak to everybody.”
‘Scarred me massively’
He added, “Now I do not (do this) as a result of that (KWK) interview scarred me massively. Getting suspended from the staff. I’ve by no means been suspended at school, I’ve by no means been punished at school. Matlab woh hua hello nahi hai mere saath (All this by no means occurred to me). I do not know methods to deal with it. I did mischievous issues in faculties like chota mota (small issues), however nothing to get me expelled from faculty or my dad and mom have needed to come. That (KWK interview and subsequent backlash) was my first (fall), and then you definitely realise how unhealthy it’s.”
KWK controversy
After their Koffee With Karan episode throughout the Karan Johar-hosted present’s sixth season in 2019, among the feedback made by the cricketers have been seen as ‘sexist’.
Regardless of an apology to followers and their very own teammates, they have been suspended by the BCCI and ousted from a three-match ODI collection in opposition to Australia. The duo was later fined ₹20 lakh every by the BCCI. Karan on the time had additionally stated that he felt ‘very accountable’ concerning the repercussions that the cricketers needed to face.
