Karan Johar gets candid about his single status : Loneliness can consume you

Karan Johar held a special media showcase recently where he opened up about his successful talk show, his closest friends in the industry and more. He spoke candidly about his single status and the privilege of being a filmmaker.
He talked about being single and said, “I have two children, I am co-parenting them with my mom, not with a partner and that means that I have a single status. That status is filled in with a lot of work, I push in so much work in the day that I don’t think about that status. That’s what we all do, when you are single and lonely and you are perhaps not wanting to address that loneliness, you pack in your day with things because you want to distract yourself from that. Then you think if you have a great friendship and great family life then they can compensate for the lack of a passionate relationship. Nothing can replace that.”
He continued, “Life is full of boxes, parents fill one, children fill the other, friends fill one. But there is a box for an intense romantic relationship that if you don’t experience, there is a certain incompleteness that never goes away. That loneliness can consume you. I have not been in a relationship in many years and only I know what that feels like. Fortunately for me, I can live vicariously through cinema. Not everybody has that leverage, I am a filmmaker, a storyteller- what I can’t experience I can write and execute and that is my biggest privilege.”

voiceover Amy /verbatik