Priyanka Chopra’s interview with iconic talk show host Oprah Winfrey about Super Soul got a lot of buzz. The main topic of conversation is the recently released Chopra memoirs entitled Unfinished: A Memoir.
But from the memoirs in which Chopra writes about her remarkable life come stories about her childhood, career, family, relationships and marriages. The conversation is therefore fairly unobstructed.
Here are five tasks from the interview:
1. Priyanka Chopra believes in God
During the interview, PeeCee said that she was an Indian while growing up in almost every major religion and religious practice and believed in a higher power. She said during the interview: ‘In India it’s hard not to do it, you were right. With the swirling number of religions living in the country … I grew up in a convent school. So I was aware of Christianity. My father sang in a mosque. I was aware of Islam. I grew up in a Hindu family. I was aware of that. Spirituality is such a big part of India that you cannot ignore it. ‘
2. When her faith was tested
It was the death of her father that tested Priyanka’s faith. She told Oprah in response to a question: ‘I was very angry. My relationship with God has changed a bit. But at the same time, I feel that God has helped me to find salvation and to come out of it. But at the time, it was tested. Oh man, I went to every temple I had to go to. I did every prayer to do. I met every godman or woman I had to meet, every doctor I had to go to. I flew my dad to Singapore, New York, Europe, India, everywhere to do just what I could to prolong his life. It’s such a helpless feeling. ”
3. She was bullied at school and racially harassed
Priyanka revealed that she moved to Boston, USA, at the age of 16. There she was a target of intense racial harassment. She told Oprah: ‘High school is difficult anyway. To grow up, to understand your body as a woman. At the same time, I am being devalued for something I could not change. I was not aware that this was something I should be ashamed of. ”
4. How Priyanka judges the book based on its cover of Nick Jonas
During the interview, Oprah raised the topic of Nick and how Priyanka wrote in the memoirs that her mother ‘dreamed’ him. Priyanka said that when she first looked at Nick, she might have judged the book by its cover. She added, ‘I may have judged the book by its cover. I did not take it really seriously when Nick sent me an SMS. I was 35, I was like, ‘I want to get married, I want kids. He’s in his twenties, I do not know if he wants to do anything ‘. I did this to myself for a while until I went out with him. ‘
5. Priyanka regrets that she did not stand up for herself when she was abused by filmmakers
Priyanka spoke about her struggles in the early days of the film industry, in which a director forced her to do a dance performance. She revealed that because she was a newcomer, she could not find the courage to give her opinion. She said: ‘I was so scared. I was new to the entertainment industry and girls are always told that ‘you do not want the reputation of being difficult to work with’. So I worked within the system. ”