Priyanka Chopra has always been vocal about the death of her father, Ashok Chopra. She has often spoken about how his death has impacted her life and changed her outlook on matters. Recently, she mentioned that the grief of losing her father has not gone away after all these years. Instead, it has become a companion.
Priyanka Chopra appeared on the Read The Room podcast and spoke about losing her father. She said, “After my dad passed away, I came to a slow but steady conclusion that that kind of pain would never go away. It’s your companion. So, if you are thinking of or waiting for the day when it starts hurting less, when it doesn’t affect you anymore or when you get over it… You are never getting over it; it becomes a companion.”
She added, “There will be days when it comes out in a biggish way and wants to stay over for dinner or maybe a week, and there will be days when you don’t even remember about it until you see a photo and you’re like (sigh)… Any form of grief will have a duration in which it will become your companion and you have to let it.”
Priyanka Chopra lost her father in 2013 after his long battle with cancer. She also has a tattoo on her wrist to honour him. It reads, “Daddy’s lil girl,” in his handwriting.
Priyanka often talks about her father’s passing and how it impacted her life. During a conversation with Oprah Winfrey in 2021, Priyanka spoke about how Ashok’s death changed her relationship with God. She said, “I think around the death of my dad. I was very angry. I was very angry. My relationship with God changed a little bit. But then at the same time, I feel like God helped me find salvation and come out of it too. But at that time, it was tested.”
“Oh man, I went to every temple there was to go to. I did every prayer there was to do. I met every godman or godwoman I needed to meet, every doctor I needed to go to. I flew my dad to Singapore, New York, Europe, India, everywhere, just to do whatever I could to prolong his life. It’s such a helpless feeling,” she recalled.
Meanwhile, on the work front, Priyanka Chopra moved to the USA in 2012 after the release of songs like In My City and Exotic. Now, more than a decade later, she has bagged multiple impressive projects such as Baywatch, The Matrix Resurrections and high-budget shows like Quantico and Citadel. She was last seen in the romantic drama Love Again alongside Sam Heughan and Celine Dion. Her next lead film is the action comedy Head of State, which also has Idris Elba and John Cena in the main roles.
In India, Priyanka Chopra celebrates the success of films produced by her production house, Purple Pebble Pictures, which she established in 2015. The production house’s documentary To Kill a Tiger, released in 2022, earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film. Additionally, the Marathi film Paani received the prestigious National Film Award for Best Film on Environment Conservation/Preservation in 2019.
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