Priyanka Chopra Recalls Being Bullied So Badly In U.S. High School That She Returned To India
10.05.2023 - 21:17
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Priyanka Chopra is opening up about being bullied while attending high school in Boston, revealing it became so severe she she returned to her native India.
The “Citadel” star shared her story during an appearance on Alex Cooper’s “Call Her Daddy” podcast.
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“So this is 10th grade,” she recalled. “And it was a group of girls… I think one of them thought her boyfriend was into me or we were spending time together. I wasn’t even allowed to go out after school. Where was I going to be spending time with this boy? So when there’s this rumour going around that he spent like the weekend with me, I don’t know which girl he was with, but there was something like that. And these girls just started taking me on.”
According to Chopra, the girls’ abuse began with racial slurs before becoming physical.
“You know, pushing against lockers, just saying nasty things, writing something nasty on the in the bathroom, in the stalls. You know, it’s just like things like mean girls stuff that, you know, that high school is made of,” she said.
“I can’t go back and dissect it,” she added. “I can only talk about how it made me feel… inferior, smaller.”
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As she explained, “I’m not that girl. My parents raised me with confidence. They raised me with having my shine and being okay with it. They raised me like I wasn’t shy and they were okay with that. They loved that about me and that was encouraged. So I started like kind of, you know, becoming just smaller because I was just like, not comfortable with any part of myself. So then I did what my dad taught me. He was