Deepika Padukone on being molested at the age of 14

Deepika Padukone may have struck gold at the box office with ‘Padmaavat’ but the actress seems to have opened up a can of worms by revealing she was molested at the age of 14.

In an interview with India Today, Padukone was asked about how her parents felt during the uproar that was caused by the controversy before the release of ‘Padmaavat’. This is where she revealed the news. She said, “I was 14 or 15. I remember one evening my family and I were walking down the street. We had probably finished eating at a restaurant. My sister and my father walked ahead and my mother and I were walking behind. And this man brushed past me. I could have, at that point, ignored, pretended like it didn’t happen. I turned back, followed this person, caught him by the collar – I was 14 – in the middle of the street slapped him and walked away.”

She added, “From that day on my parents knew that I could take care of myself.”

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