During her teens, Priyanka Chopra jetted off to the U.S. to study, hopping from Iowa to New York before finally settling in Massachusetts with her aunt and uncle. While she had the quintessential high school experience, participating in theater productions and pep rallies, what she hadn’t expected was that she would fall victim to bullying because she was deemed as different.
Speaking with Complex, Chopra recalled the time that she had to deal with a “supremely racist” bully who would constantly taunt her. ‘”Brownie, go back to your country, you smell of curry,’ or ‘Do you smell curry coming?'” the bully would say. “You know when you’re a kid, and you’re made to feel bad about where your roots are, or what you look like? You don’t understand it, you just feel bad about who you are.”
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The “Quantico” star wrote about her tragic experience in her memoir, “Unfinished,” admitting that it took a serious hit on her self-esteem. “My confidence was stripped. I’ve always considered myself a confident person, but I was very unsure of where I stood, of who I was,” she penned. Feeling incredibly defeated, she made the difficult decision to return to India to complete her studies.
