Karan Singh Grover Says Bipasha Basu Helped Him Cope With Devi's Health: 'I Felt Death Would Be...'

Actor Karan Singh Grover talked about his daughter Devi and how her health issues kept him from working on the set of Fighter. In an interview with India Today, he praised his wife, actor Bipasha Basu, calling her a ‘lioness’ and an incredibly strong person. Last year, the couple revealed that Devi was born with two holes in her heart and had to undergo surgery.

Karan said, “(At the) beginning of every schedule, I felt like not going to work because it was very serious and to be away was very difficult. Also, I did not handle it very well. I was like water on the floor. I think it’s because of Bipasha that I got the strength to kind of go through that and still be here. I really felt like, for me, death would be easier than going through that.”

He also recalled the moment at the hospital when it was time to hand Devi over to the doctors, and he simply couldn’t. “I was like, ‘no’. It felt like I didn’t have any hands or legs or feet or face. My wife is a lioness, she’s a super strong person, but then as soon as she became a mother, she was a freaking God. She is something else. Also, thanks to all the surgeons,” he recalled.

Karan and Bipasha welcomed their daughter, Devi, in 2022. In a conversation with Neha Dhupia on Instagram Live the previous year, Bipasha had spoken about Devi. She had said, “I remember the third month, when we went for the scan, I pretty much did all the research, met surgeons, had been to hospitals, spoken to doctors, and I was kind of ready, Karan was not ready. I knew that she had to be okay and I knew that she will be okay. And she is okay now. But the tough decision was to get your child operated at the right place and at the right time.”