Actor and entrepreneur Sunil Shetty have opened up about the negative impacts of social media, adding that sometimes he is “scared to talk” because of it. He also said that it hurts him when his daughter Athiya Shetty is abused online. Speaking on ‘The Ranveer Show,’ Shetty said, “Today’s time of social media there is no privacy, it destroys your life. One sentence edited in 15 different ways, put out in 15 different ways and it’s destroyed our lives. You know it’s made it impossible. I’m scared to talk.”
He further said, “We’ve been forced to be diplomatic because you’re hammering me otherwise for something that I have not done and who’s hammering me? Somebody I don’t even know on Twitter or on Facebook. Abusing me, my family, calling my daughter a b**ch, calling my mother, for what? That hurts because I come from the old school.”
Shetty said he wouldn’t sit quietly and said, “You know I’m a Shetty boy. I would never keep quiet. Today they’d say ‘You know he’s using his strength to do this’ and not realising how much the other individual has probably damaged me and hurt me.”
On the work front, Suniel was recently seen in the web show ‘Hunter.’ The actor also shoots for the film ‘Hera Pheri 3’ with Akshay Kumar, Paresh Rawal and Sanjay Dutt.