The power within

The very chirpy and outgoing Ashna Kishore only wishes to bring a smile on the faces of her fans and even credits them for motivating her. Sharing the painful memory from last year, the actress said, “In 2019, while I was shooting for the show Happu Ki Ultan Paltan, I suffered from this very rare disease called Leptospirosis, which mainly affects the organs. With that, I was also diagnosed with dengue and was suffering from food poisoning. In two days, I lost almost 12 kilos. In fact, I was not eating for days. I was on oxygen for three days in the hospital. All of that happened so suddenly that even the doctors said it would be difficult to save me.” She was in terrible agony, as she couldn’t even walk and was wheelchair-bound for a long time. And though the doctors had advised bed-rest, her passion for acting made her go back on the sets sooner than advised. “I was on a wheelchair at that time. And I had become so weak that I couldn’t walk. My parents helped me learn how to walk again like a baby. I even suffered memory loss. My immune system had become very weak at that time, and the doctors had asked me to take rest, but I still went back on the sets while recovering from it. I wanted to make people happy with my show and that made me push my limits,” Ashna added.