A few months ago, actors Samantha Ruth Prabhu and Naga Chaitanya announced their separation on social media. The couple had said that “after much deliberation and thought, (we) have decided to part ways as husband and wife to pursue our own paths”. In a recent interview with Filmfare, Samantha opened up about her divorce and the toll it took on her mental health.
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On acceptance being the first step towards healing
Speaking about her divorce, Samantha said that she felt she would “crumble and die”. “It’s ok if you are having a bad day, vocalise it, understand it, as soon as you accept that you’re going through something, half the work is done. It’s when we don’t want to accept it and we are fighting it that it’s a never-ending battle. But when you accept, when you vocalise ‘this is my issue, so what now? I still have to live my life’.
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I know I’m still going to live my life and with all the issues that I now face in my personal life, I was surprised at how strong I was. I thought I was a much weaker person. I thought that with my separation, I would crumble and die. I didn’t think I was capable of being this strong. Today, I’m very very proud of how strong I’m because I really didn’t know I was,” she said.
On doubting her success
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Samantha also said that she’d doubt her success, especially after gaining recognition post her debut movie. “When I saw success, I came from very very humble beginnings and I saw success immediately with my first film. But from a normal point of view you would be like ‘Whoa this girl just made it, she hit the jackpot and she should feel so happy’. But it wasn’t like that. I felt like ‘Why me? I don’t deserve this. I don’t look like any of the other girls’.
And it destroyed me even further that I wasn’t good enough for all the love that I was receiving from the audience and I wasn’t good enough for all these big projects that I was getting. I’m still that girl asking all those questions but I stopped fighting it,” she mentioned.
Samantha is one of the most successful actors in the country with several popular movies like Theri, 24, and Mersal. She was last seen in The Family Man Season 2.
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