Neena Gupta’s tell-all autobiography launched

Mumbai, June 14: “I've been alone most of my younger years, my prime years, without a lover or ahusband. I came here, there were some inconsequential affairs, nothing reallymaterialised. I was all alone most of the time. Vivian (Richards) was living faraway, he had his own life. We met very seldom," said veteran actor-director NeenaGupta on Monday during the launch of her autobiography "Sach Kahun Toh", anhonest tell-all tale about her life, chronicling her professional highs and personallows.

The book touches upon several milestones of Gupta's life, from her unconventional pregnancy, single parenthood to a successful comeback in Bollywood. During anInstagram video chat with actor Kareena Kapoor Khan, who launched the book,Gupta said she has been writing the autobiography for 20 years and would oftenwonder if people were even interested in reading about her.

"I would start and wonder, 'What is there to write about my life? Why would people be interested in reading it" Then the lockdown happened... And I did a lotof thinking about my life and decided to resume writing again,” she said.

Random House, the book will share Gupta's life story in the most "unapologetically honest" manner, from her time at National School of Drama (NSD) to moving to Bombay (Mumbai) in the 80s and her single parenthood.

Gupta was in a relationship with former West Indian cricketer Vivian Richards in the 1980s and had to face insensitive intrusion from media and public for her decision to raise her daughter, Masaba, as a single mother.

The actor mentioned an incident from her book, when a man she was in love with and was about to get married to, called off the wedding at the last minute. “Till today I don't know why. I had no option but to move on... What you read about my life is actually not what I wanted my life to be," she said.