Priyanka Chopra Talks About Dealing With Comments And Trolling In Recent Interview

Priyanka Chopra, who is set to release her Prime Video series Citadel, recently spoke about the ways in which she has prepared herself to deal with the comments and the trolls.

In a recent interview, Priyanka was asked how she deals with the comments and bullying that have come her way. Priyanka responded, "I came to terms with the byproduct of fame very early in my career. When I first joined the industry, I quickly realized that women, specifically, but generally actors, are more written about - and this is a media thing. People like to write about everything else but their achievements. Media likes to write about how they fell on a stage, how they tripped up on a word or anything...especially for women, at that time it was written about who's her boyfriend, who is she seeing. So you had no identity, it happened right at the beginning of my career. So I took a decision to keep my private life very private. I was ferociously private about it. I've never ever spoken about it, and it is something that I maintain even now." Priyanka further added that her position as a public figure inherently entails the consequence of being in the media, saying "I am a public figure which means most of my life is for consumption. You can talk about me, I can't stop you. You can sit and eat bread with your grandparents and say ‘Accha usne toh yeh pehna tha. usne toh ye kia tha. Uska toh ye hua tha. Main toh nahi rok sakti.' (Oh, she wore this, she did that. She had done this. I can’t stop that.) I can't come into your houses and do that. So I have to make peace with the fact that that's going to happen, and I did that very early. I started protecting myself by creating a really tight circle of people that I trust. My team, my family, my friends." Priyanka Chopra is currently busy promoting her upcoming spy-thriller web series, Citadel. The Russo Brothers-helmed show also stars Richard Madden and Stanley Tucci. She also has the rom-com Love Again up for release next month in the pipeline.