The age gap between Nick Jonas and herself made Priyanka Chopra apprehensive about a potential relationship, the actor revealed in an interview with Oprah Winfrey. During the interview, which is for an upcoming episode of the talk show Super Soul, Priyanka also talked about how she didn’t take his approach seriously at first but was eventually “swept off” her feet by the then-28-year-old singer.
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“I did really judge the book by its cover. I honestly didn’t take it very seriously when Nick was texting me. I was 35 and I want to get married and I want to have kids. He is in his 20s, I don’t know if that’s something he would want to do. I did that to myself for a while till I actually went out with him,” Priyanka said.
She said everything changed after she met Nick in person for the first time. “Nothing surprised me more than you know him. He’s such a self-assured man, so sensible, so excited about my achievements, my dreams, you know. Such a true partnership he offers me everything that we do together,” she told Oprah.
Priyanka said that their relationship is a reflection of how she saw her parents “build a life together”. “I truly believe that my mom manifested him because that was her marriage. She had a marriage of partnership.”
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“They worked together, they lived together, they built a home together, they built a life together in equal partnership. And I saw that growing up. And I am just amazed that I found exactly what I grew up with, with Nick. I just kind of swept. I let it happen.”
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Priyanka and Nick first met at the Vanity Fair Oscars party in 2017, following which the two started connecting on social media. Shortly after, they met at the Met Gala in May 2018 and soon after were photographed at a baseball match at the Dodgers Stadium in Los Angeles. The couple got married at the Umaid Bhawan Palace, Jodhpur, in December 2018.