Shah Rukh Khan offered a job to Wasim Akram after his stay at rehab for cocaine addiction: ‘It made me volatile, deceptive’

Shah Rukh Khan bought his cricket team, Kolkata Knight Riders, in 2008 and after three IPL wins, he continues to own one of the most popular teams of the country. During its initial seasons, Shah Rukh Khan’s team offered an “attractive job” to cricketer Wasim Akram as the bowling coach of the team. But, just before Wasim found this job, which was his “first senior coaching role anywhere”, he was at a rehabilitation centre for drug addiction in Lahore.

In his memoir titled Sultan, Wasim opened up about this chapter of his life and said that the excessive partying, after his career as a cricketer was over, took a toll on him and he “developed a dependence on cocaine.” “It started innocuously enough when I was offered a line at a party in England, but my use grew steadily more serious, to the point that I felt I needed it to function. It made me volatile. It made me deceptive,” he wrote. Wasim recognised that his wife Huma was “often lonely” at this time and expressed her desire to move to Karachi to be closer to her family, as they were spending majority of their time in Manchester and Lahore, but Wasim wouldn’t let her as he would go to Karachi on the pretext of work, and spend days partying.

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