New Delhi: Actor Emraan Hashmi, who is quite popular for his image of a serial-kisser, recently added another feather to his cap when he turned author.
The actor penned his struggle around his son Ayan's cancer treatment in a book.
Ayan was just four when he was diagnosed with first stage cancer in 2014. This was a huge setback for Emraan and his family.
Though, Ayan won his battler with cancer, the journey wasn’t really a cake walk for Emraan’s family.
In fact, the ‘Gangster’ actor also confessed that there was a time when he and his wife felt guilty that their son had to battle the disease.
"It didn’t anyway, in any way make any sense for us because there was no warning sign, there was no accompanying fever, there was no physical discomfort. There was only one thing that we missed as parents and that was the tumor that had grown on the left side was, there was a bump here and went unnoticed,” Emraan said in a statement.
He added: “We thought it (the tumor) was putting on weight and I think the first thing we felt was a feeling of guilt. He was 3 years 10 months then and we’ve made the choices for this kid and where did we go wrong?”
There was a phase when they blamed themselves, but after reading up on cancer, he realised they couldn’t blame anyone.
“After doing the reading, I realised that. When they removed the tumor, it went through the pathology report and we didn’t know if it was gonna come back because in his case there is the favourable, unfavourable and also there is four stages of cancer,” he said.
Now, Emraan has come out with a book titled ‘The Kiss of Life: How A Superhero and My Son Defeated Cancer’, in order to help raise awareness about the disease and share their story. The book chronicles his career, family, the birth of his son, cancer and treatment thereafter. The book is set to be released in Hindi and Marathi too. Emraan has co-written the book with author Bilal Siddiqi.
