Last Updated:November 22, 2025, 21:26 IST

Vivek Oberoi opens up about heartbreak, maturity and his relationship with wife Priyanka Alva, revealing how time helped him heal.

In a candid conversation, Vivek Oberoi opened up about the heartbreaks that once left him bitter, why he avoided relationships for a long time.

Vivek Oberoi has often spoken candidly about love, heartbreak, and the emotional journeys that shaped him long before he built a home with wife Priyanka Alva Oberoi. In a recent conversation with Pinkvilla, the actor reflected on how his understanding of love has evolved with age, maturity, and painful lessons that once left him retreating into silence.

Looking back at the heartbreaks that once left him wounded, Vivek admitted that he went through a phase where bitterness took over. He said, “A person may be wrong for you, but right for somebody else. Maybe the time is wrong and you meet the same person 20 years ago and you like them… you have seen love stories like this. For a while, I went into a shell, I didn’t want to be in a relationship. Nahi chahiye relationship, I went into that zone. But when you find the right person, all that things seem like a bad dream.”

That phase of withdrawal, he said, also taught him how heartbreak changes with age. As a teenager or young adult, everything feels apocalyptic. “We should not take stress and all the things that we thought as a big problem, now we laugh at it. During heartbreaks in childhood, you felt life is over. It is finished. She has left me. What will I do? Cut to two years later, you are dating somebody else, you are happy, you are married with children… life moves on.”

According to Vivek, the only real way to heal is through optimism, perspective, and time — the great equaliser that makes even the deepest wounds feel distant.

But with age, he said, understanding love becomes far more complex and meaningful than the initial rush that once felt intoxicating. Speaking about how his marriage with Priyanka has shaped him, he shared, “When you are young, it’s easy to fall in love. But as you grow older, you make mistakes in relationships, you learn from these mistakes and you don’t go into toxic patterns. Then you realise that the journey is not about falling in love — it is highly romanticised. It is the beginning, but staying in love is the next challenge. And the third part is when you grow in love. I believe I am at this stage with my wife. And the fourth part is when you rise in love.”

Today, Vivek describes his marriage — which began on October 29, 2010 — as a relationship built on learning, evolution, and emotional expansion. He and Priyanka are now parents to two children: son Vivaan Veer Oberoi and daughter Ameyaa Nirvana Oberoi.

For Vivek, the heartbreaks of the past no longer live as scars, but as reminders of the resilience required to build something lasting. Love, he believes, is no longer about the dramatic fall — it is about the quiet rise.

Yatamanyu Narain

Yatamanyu Narain is a Sub-Editor at News18.com with a passion for all things entertainment. Whether he’s breaking the latest Bollywood news or chatting with rising stars in the OTT world, he’s always on the hun…Read More

Yatamanyu Narain is a Sub-Editor at News18.com with a passion for all things entertainment. Whether he’s breaking the latest Bollywood news or chatting with rising stars in the OTT world, he’s always on the hun… Read More