When she returned to India after living in the US for a while, Priyanka Chopra recalled how her late father’s attitude to her growing up and attracting boys was absolutely uncool. At the age of 12, Priyanka was transferred abroad, and she came back at the age of 16, “after all of these American hormones.”
Priyanka Chopra remembered the day her father, Ashok Chopra, lost control and had the windows in her room barred during an appearance on The Howard Stern Show. Additionally, he took all of her Western clothing and forced her to wear traditional Indian garb. Priyanka claimed that her father hired a driver to follow her around at all times.
She said, “My dad was super paranoid because he sent to America a 12-year-old with braids and trying to be cool, so I got my hair blown out that was the only thing I had ever done, come back after all of these American hormones and the food. I come back a little bit more woman than my dad would have anticipated at 16. When I went back to India and I was in this small town and I was peacocking like I peacocked in my American high school I had boys follow me home. One of them jumped into my balcony at night. That’s why my dad was like, ‘F*** this, bars, all your jeans are confiscated, you are going to wear Indian suits, nothing happening. I had a driver drive me everywhere, he was freaked out. I get it, but then my career happened. I feel so bad for my dad.”
Priyanka admitted that she was ‘arrogant and vain’ when she returned to India. “I didn’t understand the gravity of it. I thought I was invincible. I think about it now. How did I get away with this s*** that I did? But it was this invincible thing of, ‘I can get away with anything’. But that day when somebody was outside my bedroom. He was outside my balcony and I saw him and I screamed and went to my dad. My dad came, he jumped and he went away. The next day my dad was like, ‘You need rules’. I was so arrogant and vain in those two years of my life. Especially when I came back to India. Suddenly there was this equity on me which I didn’t have in American high school where the girls were bullying me,” she said.
Priyanka recently reflected on how isolated she felt when she first immigrated to the US in an interview with Hoda Kotb on the Today Show. She claimed that she would eat chips by herself in the bathroom since she didn’t know how to navigate a cafeteria. One of the most well-known Indian celebrities on the earth today is Priyanka. Alongside Richard Madden, she most recently appeared in the spy drama Citadel on Prime Video.
