Priyanka Chopra has revealed that her dad put bars over her bedroom window when she started dating as a teenager in a bid to protect his daughter.
Priyanka’s dad, who died in 2013, took some extreme measures to protect his daughter, now 40, who was crowned Miss India and Miss World in 2000, and has been famous from a very young age.
She is recognised as one of India’s highest-paid actresses, having received countless accolades including National Film Awards and being named as one of TIME’s 100 most influential people, and Forbes’ world’s most powerful women.
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The Indian actress, who is married to singer Nick Jonas, has spoken of how her dad installed bars on her windows after an incident with an admirer.
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Heading to America when she was 12, when she returned home to India four years later, she admitted she had “peacocked” and arrived back “a little bit more woman than my dad would have anticipated at 16”.
Priyanka told The Howard Stern Show: “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.”
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The actress, who was born in the city of Jamshedpur to two doctors and grew up with one brother, then spoke of how when she hit puberty her father gave her a set of rules to follow, which at first she didn’t understand the gravity of.
The Indian Bollywood starlet married pop singer and Disney Channel hunk Nick Jonas in 2018, with the couple welcoming a baby girl via surrogacy in January 2022.
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Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
