Comedian Aditi Mittal alleges harassment by Tanmay Bhat's 'fan boys' after countering his tearful video breaking silence on the #MeToo controversy

Comedian-writer Tanmay Bhat revealed he is suffering from clinical depression and is worried he might never get back to being who he was or "operating to my potential" on Sunday.

Bhat was under attack for his inaction in complaints against comic Utsav Chakraborty during #MeToo movement in October 2018.  

While Tanmay received support and love from his colleagues, stand-up comedy industry and B-Town celebrities, iti Mittal took to her Twitter handle to criticise Bhat over his video.

Accusing Tanmay of playing 'depression victim' card, Mittal wrote: "We've all been screwed over by life. But apparently depression is only newsworthy when someone who h a corporates throwing money at him stopped having money thrown at him."

iti in a series of tweets explained and gave a background of how Tanmay Bhat was allegedly part of some situations where she was harassed verbally by some male colleagues. Mittal who spoke up against Utsav also wrote on her Twitter handle that she felt strongly for Mahima Kukreja.

Mittal who was a part of AIB (All India Bakchod) roast panel featuring Ranveer Singh and Arjun Kapoor along with team members of comedy team, also later revealed that Tanmay Bhat's fans are harassing her on social media.

Hours later she wrote: "Tanmay Bhat’s fan boys showing up on Insta to harass me coz I spent years getting bullied by his systems, suffered mental trauma from it, &w for speaking up I have to hear same shit from his fans and suffer mental trauma for it.Where’s my celeb infested air-kissing?"

In a series of Instagram videos shared on Saturday, comedian said he sometimes gets "super worried" thinking that his state of "paralysis is permanent".

"After everything that happened in October, I'm mentally checked out. I feel almost paralysed and unable to participate socially, online or even offline. A big part of my self worth growing up as someone who looked like me became my work. 

"For most of my ult I life I worked at a company that I was trying to build. Letting office go, all people who worked with us, having to say good bye to that took a toll on me mentally and physically. Which finally came to a heway around end of last year," he said. 

comedian said doctors diagsed him with clinical depression and told him to "consider doing something about it."

"A lot of you have been asking fair questions- why don't you move on, why don't you rebuild, but for some reason, I have just watched something that I have worked for last part of my ult life come crashing down. I have just been staring at rubble going 'what w?' 

"I don't think I've been strong eugh to be able to pick myself. It's been a few months since doctor told me to start medication. I honestly sometimes get super worried that this state of paralysis is permanent. I sometimes feel I might never get back to being who I was or operating to my potential."

Bhat thanked those who wrote supportive messs on his worst days, which were immensely helpful. 

"It's nice to kw re are still people out re who are rooting for us and me. I am still clueless about any answers to questions like when will I be back and doing what. I don't kw. I'm still feeling extremely paralysed to even put out this mess because in my he one wants to work with a depressed comedian and that's an oxymoron. 

"But at some point I just got to get up and start fixing this stuff. I owed you guys a thank you. That's all for w," he concluded. 

Bhat, who was one of judges in first season of Amazon Prime Video's "Comicstaan", is t returning for upcoming second run. 

(With inputs from PTI)