Priyanka Chopra has achieved a lot in the last year. From releasing her single, 'Exotic', to doing a voice-over for the Hollywood movie 'Planes', to also taking on superhero projects such as Krrish 3, Peecee has done it all. However, the actress who bought herself a Rolls Royce recently, says that 2013 has been her worst year.
In an interview to Times Of India, Priyanka talks of her life after her dad's demise, and how she chooses to deal with it. She says, "It's like I can't fathom it. It doesn't register in my head. So when I go home, I feel like he must be in his room... I can't understand the permanence of it. I don't want to understand it. I don't want to balance anything. I am the most imbalanced right now than I've ever been in my life."
"I don't think people will understand it right now. Even I don't understand my sense and my mind right now. Too much has happened in the last two years. I need an anchor, and I can't find it, at the moment. So my work is my anchor - which is why I dove into it. I'm just freefalling right now - emotionally, tangentially, professionally. I'll go wherever work is taking me. There's no direction, no plan."
She also talks about her student life in America. Mentioning how scared she first was, she says, "I went to America when I was 12 or 13 to study. Eighth standard. And high school in America is like the jungle. I was so scared of going to the cafeteria that I used to have lunch in the bathroom! I would take things from the vending machine, chips etc, and go and hide in the stall. That's how I had lunch, for a month, till I made a friend, who finally took me and told me that cafeteria mein aise baithte hain, idhar tray rakhte hain, and all that."
She adds that this incident changed her life. She says, "I suddenly gained courage of conviction through lunch in that one cafeteria - except that I thought mashed potatoes were vanilla ice cream, but that was different"
"Going to America, to that school, changed me. It completely changed me. Somewhere I found myself. I realised that zindagi mein mere saath kuch bhi galat ho, yeh ek cheez mere paas hamesha rahegi - that I can learn. When I started films, I was 18, I knew nothing of films - but I knew that I could learn. And that's how it has been since then, with everything."
Well, so there. That is a peep into how the shy girl went on to be release international pop albums and become a global ambassador. Isn't it an inspiring story? What are your thoughts?