"My life changed in one afternoon. On January 13, we went for brunch at the Taj Lands, and my son had his first symptom at the table. He excused himself and asked my wife to take him to the room because he had passed blood in his urine.
Emraan Hashmi, who is currently promoting his upcoming film Ground Zero, recently opened up about the most difficult phase of his life. Emraan recalled the time when his son, who was three-years-old at the time, was diagnosed with cancer. The actor shared that his entire life “changed in one afternoon” and his “whole world flipped in a matter of 12 hours.” He also spoke about the time when his mother got diagnosed with cancer soon after his son finished his treatment.
In a chat with Ranveer Allahbadia on his YouTube channel, Emraan shared, “The most difficult phase of my life was when my son fell sick in 2014. No professional upheaval comes even close to that. This went on for five years.” He recalled the day when they first spotted a symptom in January 2014. “My entire life changed in one afternoon. It was January 13 when we went for a brunch and the first noticeable symptom happened there. My son asked my wife to take him to washroom and he passed blood in his urine,” he said and added, “From what was a very joyous brunch, in the next three hours, we were sitting inside a clinic and the doctor was telling us that your son has cancer, you will have to get him operated the next day, and then there will be chemotherapy. My whole world flipped in a matter of 12 hours. Before this, no one in my family could see the symptoms.”
Emraan said that his wife and him couldn’t even cry in front of their son as they did not want to affect his mental state. “The first day we got this news, we couldn’t even cry in front of our son. So I remember that we actually went inside a room and cried because we didn’t want to affect our son’s mental state in this,” he said and shared that this was the only day when they cried.
