Parineeti Chopra, who debuted in 2011 with Ladies vs Ricky Bahl, has opened up about her 15-year journey and its lowest phase. In a recent interview, she said the end of 2014 and entire 2015 were the worst 1.5 years of her life. Her films Daawat-e-Ishq and Kill Dil flopped, she had just bought a house and had no money left, and also went through a heartbreak.
“I went into a shell. I stopped eating, sleeping. I had no friends, cut off from family. I used to cry 10 times a day. I was like a zombie, just watching TV,” she said. Parineeti confessed she came unprepared and followed wrong, template advice to copy other actresses. “I left my core, which was performance,” she added.
She also revealed a co-star once told her if she can’t afford a Rs 4 lakh trainer, she shouldn’t be in the industry, while she got only Rs 5 lakh for her first film. She credited Dibakar Banerjee and Imtiaz Ali for bringing her back to her core.
