Meta Description: Actor Zayed Khan reflects on the emotional turmoil and financial collapse his family endured after his father, Sanjay Khan, suffered a tragic fire accident, leading to their home being mortgaged. Discover how witnessing financial distress and emotional suffering in childhood impacts emotional development, causing chronic anxiety and difficulty trusting others. Learn strategies for individuals to process guilt, helplessness, or trauma from such crises through storytelling, symbolic acts, and self-care, with insights from counselling psychologist Athul Raj.
Actor Zayed Khan recently reflected on a period in his life that was marked by emotional turmoil and financial collapse, brought on by a tragic fire accident that left his father, Sanjay Khan, with third-degree burns and led to the family mortgaging their home to stay afloat.
Speaking to Siddharth Kanan, Zayed recalled, “My dad had a fire accident at that time, during Tipu Sultan. There was a lot of distress at home, and the way I saw my mother and sisters during that period really hurt me deeply. The family was extremely financially burdened at that time. A lot of people had passed away in that fire, and there was no insurance at the time. I saw a lot of pain in my mother and sisters and how they took up the mantle to support my father.”
