From Shivani Kumari opening up about working for Rs 200 to Sai Ketan Rao sleeping on railway tracks during the tough times: Bigg Boss OTT 3's contestants open up about their struggling days

This past week in the Bigg Boss OTT 3 house, contestants made some shocking revelations and opened up about their struggling days. From Shivani Kumari starting her journey by working for just Rs 200 to Sai Ketan Rao enduring tough times sleeping on railway tracks, the contestants share their inspiring tales of overcoming challenges. Take a sneak peek..

In a recent episode, Sai Ketan Rao recalled his early childhood and opened up about his struggling days. While talking about the same, he revealed his father abandoned the family, leaving them high and dry. He recalled, "After my dad left, mom faced harassment from her in-laws, as they used to question us a lot. But we grew out of it and fought back. My mom and I have gone through a lot together. During tough days, we even slept on railway tracks." He further added, "Mom used to work multiple jobs to make ends meet while raising two kids. Slowly we grew financially, but it was a tough ride."

Shivani Kumari has been quite open about her struggling days and journey ever since the start of Bigg Boss OTT 3. This week while everyone was sharing their stories, Shivani shocked the contestants after she revealed some shocking details about her life. She said, “Nobody knows the real story. My parents had eight sons before they had me and my sisters. However, they couldn’t take care of them as we were financially very unstable and all of them passed away. Later, my parents had me and my sisters. However, my mom wanted a son but that didn’t happen and it broke her a lot. Even my dad passed away after a few years of my brothers death. It was just my mom and us sisters. We hardly had any money for the basic needs. I even worked at places for Rs 200. My mom had suicidal tendencies as well. However, I then started my YouTube career. People were very against it in the start and the villagers even threatened to throw me out of the village along with my mom. Things are much better now.”

Ranvir Shorey is one of the contestants this season and fans are enjoying watching him on the show. In one of the recent episodes he spoke about his journey as an actor and recalled his struggling days. He shared, “During the very start I struggled a lot to get roles in any shows or movies. After a lot of struggles I didn’t find my way up with some small roles in Bollywood movies. However, there was a time in my life when things went downhill for me. My mom passed away and I left for America to earn some money along with my brother. There I even did some courses. Later, I came back to India to once again start my acting career.”

Payal Malik recently broke down in tears talking about Armaan’s second marriage. She even mentioned how she wasn’t ready for it and even left Armaan during the time. Payal revealed how hard it was when she found about Armaan and Kritika’s relationship. She shared, “I didn’t want to accept Armaan’s second marriage initially. I was at the venue and I remember leaving since I didn’t feel good about it. I left the house with my son Chiku and stayed away for almost a year. It was a very bad phase for me, I even had thoughts of self-harm. Later, I decided to be strong and accept the situation and go back. I also thought of my child as otherwise he would have been left without one parent.”

Naezy has been quite open about his rap journey on the show. He mentioned how his parents weren’t supportive of his career and that really affected him. He even spoke about how that is one of the reasons for him usually being underground. In a conversation with Sai Ketan Rao he revealed how he has even disappointed his fans by not keeping up with their expectations. He said, “I’ve seen a lot in my life too. I always wished to have some help in my career but nobody helped me. I made a studio of my own in my chawl but now I want to be so big that I help people. During the past many years there were situations in my life because of which I couldn’t do great in my career but now I’m fully ready.”

Poloumi Das ha a conversation with Sana Makbul where she spoke about her brain haemorrhage, facing rejection and much more. She got teary eyed and spoke about how she doesn’t remember anything that happened during the time. Poloumi mentioned, "I got engaged with someone in 2022. I had brain haemorrhage after that, so I don’t remember anything that has happened just before the brain haemorrhage. One production house cast me in their show and replaced me overnight. They told me you are not fit. I am dark and I got rejected because I wasn’t fair. They told me we want North Indian look.

In the recent Bigg Boss OTT 3 episode, Sana Makbul bravely opened up about two challenging experiences that deeply affected her. She spoke about a scar on her face from a dog bite that led to a difficult surgery and pushed her into a period of depression. Additionally, she emotionally revealed her battle with non-alcoholic Hepatitis, a liver disease. Sana expressed her gratitude for being diagnosed early, highlighting that many discover such illnesses in the late stages. Sana said, “I’ve non-alcoholic Hepatitis- a liver disease. I’m one of those people who have never tasted alcohol in my life but have yet to be diagnosed with it. People get to know about their liver disease mostly when they are in the last stage of it. I’ve been lucky in that case as I got to know about it pretty early.”