Published: Aug 23, 2024, 11:48 PM (IST)
Edited: Aug 23, 2024, 11:48 PM (IST)
KL Rahul found himself in hot water when he and Indian all-rounder Hardik Pandya made an appearance on the popular talk show ‘Koffee with Karan’ hosted by Karan Johar. They appeared on the show back in 2019.
Comments made by the star cricketers sparked massive backlash and left the BCCI with no choice but to suspend the duo. When the episode aired in January 2019, the team were on a tour to Australia, and both players had to fly back to India midway.
While the suspension was lifted in a few days and both players played the Indian Premier League (IPL) and were also part of India’s 2019 Cricket World Cup Squad just a few months later, Rahul has now opened up on the incident and admitted that the incident changed his personality and left a massive scar.
“I used to be good with trolling. I used to think I don’t care. I was much younger back then. Couple of years back, I was exposed to a lot of trolling. If I sat I got trolled, If I stood I got trolled,” Rahul said on Nikhil Kamath’s podcast.
“The interview was a different world. That changed me. Completely changed me. I was a very soft-spoken person growing up. Then I played for India and became very confident. People will know I have been in a room of 100 people. Now I don’t because that interview scarred me massively. Getting suspended from the team. I have never been suspended in school, punished in school. I don’t know how to handle it,” Rahul added.
