Priyanka Chopra Recalls Her Father Put Bars On Windows When She Returned To India From US At 16, 'One Of The Boys Jumped....'

Priyanka claimed in a recent interview that her father became "paranoid" after a boy leaped onto her balcony late one night.

Priyanka Chopra Recalls Her Father Put Bars On Windows When She Returned To India From US At 16 ( Image Source :@priyankachopra/Instagram )

New Delhi: Actress Priyanka Chopra stated that her late father Ashok Chopra had to install window bars when she returned to India from the US at the age of 16. Priyanka claimed in a recent interview that her father became "paranoid" after a boy leaped onto her balcony late one night. Priyanka recalled the "two years" following her return to India and claimed that during that time she was "arrogant, vain," and believed she was "invincible."

Ashok instructed Priyanka to "wear loose clothes or Indian clothes" after the incident. She would use her father's favourite shirts, tie them up, leave the buttons open, and wear them with jeans in "this small town in India," the actor recounted, because she didn't have "any loose clothes." Everyone would comment on the way she dressed, Priyanka recalls.

Speaking on The Howard Stern Show, Priyanka 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, 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."

She also added, "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."

 

Priyanka Chopra recently turned heads with her stylish look at the Met Gala 2023. She walked hand-in-hand at the Red Carpet with husband Nick Jonas. The power-couple twinned in black outfits.