After being released, actress Meera has opened up about the news of her being forcibly held in a mental asylum last week in the United States.
The Baaji star who had previously through actor Imran Abbas turned down claims of being mentally challenged has now declared that she was in fact taken into a mental asylum upon visiting a NYC’s Brookline Hospital for different reasons.
In an interview with BBC Urdu, Meera shared that she got vaccinated for COVID-19 from the institute and was getting her following tests done. However, she dodged the question of being taken to a mental asylum and being deported from the US. “It’s midnight over here at the moment and everyone at my place is fast asleep. I can’t talk in detail right now,” she responded.
However, in a following WhatsApp message, Meera revealed that visited the hospital because she was depressed and in turn, she was declared mentally challenged. “My phone was also snatched and I was taken to a psychiatric facility. There’s a difference between madness and depression, which has to be understood,” she asserted.
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While sharing her exxperience she then disclosed, “But people here locked me up. I spent an entire night screaming for help. No one came.” After her mother appealed to Prime Minister Imran Khan and Interior Minister Sheikh Rasheed, a call from the latter made her release possible. “Mr Sheikh Rasheed got in touch with the Pakistani embassy in New York, which requested the facility to let me go,” she said.
