Kabir Bedi is known to have a life with lots of ups and downs. In a recent interview, he has opened up on how some of his financial struggles and how emotionally he went through a tough time when his son Siddharth passed away by suicide . Kab
Recalling his early years, Kabir opens up about the comfort that financial stability once brought him. “People who come from a background where finances are scarce, they always want to secure themselves financially so when I tasted success in Europe… I made some money and that was a very important thing for me because that gives you a sense of, ‘I don’t have to worry where my next meal is coming from or where my rent is coming from’,” he says.
But with success came new challenges. He admits that the sudden arrival of wealth can often lead to poor financial decisions. “If you have never had any money and suddenly you get some money, you think this will now be your permanent state and you start getting reckless with money,” he says candidly. “I made some wrong investments and lost a lot of money.”
Kabir reflects on the illusions of stardom and how easy it is to fall into the trap of a lavish lifestyle. “You are a star, you should have a good house, good car, travel first class, that becomes your lifestyle and money keeps flowing out,” he explains. According to him, many people unknowingly dig their own financial graves by trying to maintain this illusion of success.
The actor opens up about a particularly dark chapter of his life in the late 1990s, when personal and financial struggles collided. His voice heavy with emotion, he says, “Main tabaah ho gaya tha (I was ruined),” referring to the time when he lost his son Siddharth to suicide while also facing major financial losses. “Not just financially, but emotionally also because it came at a point where my financial investments went against me. At that time, my son passed away so it was such a time in the late 1990s that I didn’t know what I was doing. I would go for auditions and I couldn’t understand what I was saying. I lost work, opportunities and the situation just kept getting worse.”
It was during this rock-bottom phase that Kabir chose to reclaim control of his life. “Barbaad ho jaunga, sadko pe aa jaunga main (I will be ruined, on the streets),” he recalls thinking. Motivated by the fear of total collapse, he returned to his core strengths, moved to England, and began rebuilding his life—one project at a time.