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On Twinkle Khanna and Kajol’s chat show Two Much, Salman Khan talked about dealing with trigeminal neuralgia, and how the excruciating pain made his daily activities challenging.
Salman Khan talked about battling trigeminal neuralgia
Bollywood superstar Salman Khan recently graced the first episode of Twinkle Khanna and Kajol’s chat show ‘Two Much’ alongside Aamir Khan. On the show, he recalled that he first experienced the excruciating pain of trigeminal neuralgia while shooting for his film Partner with Lara Dutta. He opened up about dealing with the condition, sharing that the pain used to be so severe, he wouldn’t wish it on his worst enemy.
While speaking with the hosts Twinkle Khanna and Kajol, Salman said, “You’ve got to live with it. There are a lot of people living with bypass surgeries, heart conditions, and many more. When I had trigeminal neuralgia, that pain used to be… You would not want your biggest enemy to have that pain. I had it for seven-and-a-half years. It used to pain every 4-5 minutes. It would happen suddenly, while talking… It used to take me about an hour and a half to have my breakfast, and I used to go straight to dinner. For an omelet, because, I couldn’t chew it, I had to force myself, hurt myself, take as much pain, so I could get rid of the meal.”
He recalled that the first time he experienced the pain was on the sets of Partner (2007) with Lara Dutta. “I was doing Partner. Lara was there. She removed a strand of hair on my face and I felt pain. I joked that ‘Wow Lara, you’re electrifying!’ That’s when it started,” he said.
Salman Khan shared that people initially assumed he was dealing with a dental problem. He would take about 750 mg of painkillers, and even that wouldn’t help relieve the pain. He said that the pain would reduce a bit when he used to have a ‘drink or two’. Salman reportedly underwent a surgery for trigeminal neuralgia in 2011.
In June, during his appearance on The Great Indian Kapil Show on Netflix, Salman revealed that he is battling not one, but three major neurological conditions – brain aneurysm, trigeminal neuralgia, and arteriovenous (AV) malformation.
Speaking on the show, Salman Khan said, “I’m out here breaking my bones every day – ribs are fractured, I’m working despite having trigeminal neuralgia, there is an aneurysm in the brain, yet I’m still working. There’s also an AV malformation, and still, I’m carrying on.”
September 25, 2025, 09:27 IST
