Actor Priyanka Chopra Jonas recently launched her first book, her memoir ‘Unfinished’ in which she has talked about her childhood chronicles to her struggles in the film industry. The 38-year-old actor has also revealed about facing racism in the United States when her first song ‘In My City’ was about to release in 2012. The actor revealed in her book that she was asked to go back to India and “get gangraped.”
Priyanka has said that the excitement of releasing her first song was destroyed after “a storm of explicitly racist hate mails and tweets.”
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In her memoir, she wrote, “I remember the thrill of turning on the television the first night it aired and seeing myself introducing the game in a pre-recorded announcement, and then watching the upbeat ‘In My City’ promo video along with the millions of others who were tuned in. From where I sat, there was no better way for me and my music to be introduced to mainstream America than through an NFL weekly spot. #GameOn!” SpotboyE quoted.
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She further wrote that her “bubble was quickly burst.” Priyanka revealed that she received that the hate mails and tweets for her, included, among many others, “What’s a brown terrorist doing promoting an all-American game?’ and ‘Go back to the Middle East and put your burka on’.
The ‘Quantico’ actor continued, ” …and years later it’s still hard to write this – ‘Go back to your country and get gang-raped.'”
Priyanka has shared many things about her life, personal and professional in her memoir ‘Unfinished’, which includes coping up her father’s loss and a break-up when she moved to New York in 2016 or losing films due to botched surgery soon after winning the title of Miss World 2000.
Currently, the actor is in London shooting for her upcoming movie ‘Text For You’.