To stay alive, Sushmita Sen once needed to take steroids every eight hours

Sushmita Sen revealed that she had recently experienced a heart attack on March 2 on Instagram. The actress, who is renowned for her fitness regimen, also disclosed that an angioplasty was required. She is currently doing well, though. The actress has a medical history despite having a heart attack. On March 2, Sushmita posted on Instagram to say that she had a heart attack a few days earlier and is currently recovering from it. In addition to the heart attack, the actress has a lengthy medical background. Sushmita had previously disclosed in an interview that she had a serious illness.

The actress appeared on Rajeev Masand’s new show Women We Love and spoke about her fight with a life-threatening hormonal disease for two years. “I finished shooting for my Bengali film Nirbaak, and I fell violently sick. We could not figure out what had happened. Then, an array of tests happened and after fainting and being rushed to the hospital, we discovered that my adrenal glands had stopped making cortisol. I was lucky to come out of that fainting spell because I had gone into an adrenal crisis,” she said.

“The next thing, after that, would have been my organs packing up one by one. But for some reason, I came back from it and was declared steroid-dependent for life. Which means that I had to take a medicine called hydrocortisone, which is a steroid, every eight hours to stay alive because my body no longer made that,” she added.