The Shady Side of Priyanka Chopra That She Tries To Hide: Bollywood Affairs, Trouble With The Law, and More
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Priyanka Chopra is an Indian actress who is well known for her movies in Bollywood and her work in Hollywood. She is one of the highest paid Indian actresses, she starred on the show Quantico, and she married Nick Jonas in 2018. As much as Priyanka would like to think that she rebranded away from all the scandals that have preceded her, you can’t rewrite history.
Affairs, tax evasion, sex trafficking: these are just 3 topics that mainstream American media has never spoken about.
If you don’t follow up with Priyanka, it’s probably news to you when I tell you that it’s been rumored for years that Priyanka was blacklisted from working in Bollywood for reportedly having affairs with married men.
I thought this was just a rumor, but no… there’s a lot of truth to it and one of my sources tells me that “all the rumors are true, but the whole story is even worse than what’s out there.”
I want to clarify something—this next section is not to put blame on Priyanka and praise the men. They are both sh!tty for their actions. Misogyny is very alive in Bollywood and it’s not right for them to crucify a woman, but not a bat an eye when it comes to the actions of the men.
The Affairs
There are 2 prominent men in Bollywood that Priyanka was rumored to have an affair with. Yes they were and are married.
The first one is Akshay Kumar.
This all started when they were filming their movie, Aitraaz. Akshay and Priyanka’s romance was one that flooded the tabloids in the early 2000s. When they were filming, onlookers reported that they were constantly hanging out on set (away from their scenes) and that it eventually led to a huge fight with him and his wife, Twinkle Khanna.
One night when Akshay and Twinkle were dining in a Goa restaurant, they reportedly had a huge fight about his affair with Priyanka.
A guest who was at the restaurant reported to the tabloids what they heard:
“The fight happened in full public view and as both Akshay and Twinkle screamed at each other, one got the distinct impression that he had admitted to having an affair with Priyanka Chopra.”
Since then, it’s been rumored that Twinkle forbade Akshay from ever working with Priyanka ever again. However, there is more to the story.
People loved Akshay and Priyanka’s onscreen pairing and so they were cast together in a couple of movies. In 2003 when they were starring in the movie Andaaz, it was reported that Twinkle became increasingly jealous and suspicious of Priyanka to the point where she told him to stay away from her.
Sources told the IBT Times that Twinkle and Priyanka had a huge fight over the phone where Twinkle was fed up with Priyanka and wanted to literally physically attack her. They said that she immediately stormed over to the set of Waqt: The Race Against Time, but couldn’t find Priyanka. Instead, she found her husband which led to the 2 of them having a huge fight on set—which was later reported to the tabloids because everyone was there.
After the fight, they both stormed off the set and went home as filming was cut short.
The following day, Akshay issued an official statement claiming that he will not accept any work alongside Priyanka.
At the time, both Akshay and Priyanka didn't talk to each other anymore and even ignored each other at social gatherings.
Everyone believed the story of Twinkle’s involvement because after Akshay and Priyanka signed on for several movies together due to their success, at the peak of it all, they stopped associating with each other.
A decade after their last film together, Akshay opened up about his fallout with Priyanka and said, “There is nothing like that. I have worked on five films with Priyanka. It's not like I don't want to work with her. Except for Rani Mukerji, I have worked with every heroine. If there is an opportunity, I will surely work with Priyanka Chopra."
When Priyanka learned of what he said, she was shocked. In 2014, she expressed her shock by saying, “First of all, I don’t think he said that.” Then, she went on to talk about how she doesn’t accept roles based on who her costars will be, but rather the basis of the script & story.
This brings me to the second man that Priyanka was reportedly having an affair with, Shahrukh Khan aka SRK.
SRK is a legend in Bollywood. Like even I know him. Well to be honest with all of you, I’ve watched a couple of Bollywood movies. Part of my childhood consisted of watching Bollywood movies which is why I know a lot of the OLDER movies. Anyways, where was I?
Oh right. SRK’s affair with Priyanka. How dare you SRK…
SRK and Priyanka worked together on the movie Don 2 and many sources cited that they got along really well. They were even spotted spending a lot of alone time together. One instance was when they were spotted together at 3 AM. When they got backlash for their 3 AM run offs, they said that it was for rehearsals for the movie.
Rehearsing…. for a movie… at 3AM?
SRK has been married to Gauri Khan since 1991 so you can already expect to hear that she wasn’t pleased with their close relationship.
Sources have been saying that SRK was strictly warned by Gauri to never be seen with Priyanka again.
For the next story, you have to know this.
Background information & characters:
The movie they’re working on at the time of this drama, Agneepath, was released in 2012.
Priyanka was in the movie Agneepath which starred Hrithik Roshan (also known as my first Bollywood love).
At the time, Hrithik was married to Sussanne.
u really gon look me in the eye and tell me that this man is not beautiful?
Sussane and SRK’s wife, Gauri, had a girl squad that they invited Priyanka to be part of.
Apparently, Sussane and Gauri had fallouts throughout the years, but they remain civil friends as they’ve worked together in the past on business partnerships.
Before Priyanka’s fallout with the Khan family, it was reported that Gauri welcomed her into her friend group like she was family. At one point, Gauri and Sussanne Khan (formerly known as Sussanne Roshan because she was married to Hrithik) had this girl gang (for the American fans, pretend this is the Indian version of Taylor Swift’s girl squad) that consisted of Maheep Kapoor, Bhavana Pandey, and Mehr Jessia. Gauri brought Priyanka into the group, but then that all fell apart when the tabloids were talking about Priyanka’s rumored affair with SRK.
At the time, it was reported that Gauri removed Priyanka from her Christmas party guest list, but Priyanka’s PR team said that she couldn’t come because she wanted to spend time with her own family.
Since Agneepath was a success, a huge party was thrown to celebrate. Sussanne reportedly got Priyanka REMOVED FROM THE GUESTLIST OF THE PARTY because of her affair with SRK. Now get this, The Times of India (TOI) reported that Vivek Oberoi and Kangana Ranaut; who were not even a part of the film, had been invited but not Priyanka.
Keep in mind that at the time, Priyanka was still considered a newcomer. She was in the first decade of her popular career, but she was fcking around with families who have been around since the 90s.
A source spoke to the media and said, "It was odd to not see Priyanka at the celebration party of her own film. Even people not associated with the film were invited, like Duggu's Krissh 3 co-stars Vivek Oberoi and Kangana Ranaut."
TOI later reported that Gauri warned SRK not to work with Priyanka in the future.
All these little facts point to the fact that the rumor that SRK had an affair with Priyanka, was likely to be real. But if you are not convinced, there’s more information to the whole story.
The affair between SRK and Priyanka was basically confirmed by Priyanka in an attempt that was NOT subtle and just seemed like she was poking the bear at this point.
In 2017, she was on InStyles’ series Dirty Laundry where she spoke about how she kept a leather jacket of an ex-boyfriend. She was asked about the leather jacket that she was wearing at the show and that’s when she said:
“I was a little unsure about this one, but your show is called Dirty Laundry. This is a jacket that I literally live in… it belonged to an ex-boyfriend. Things get exchanged, but this one I really really loved… it kind of became mine. It stopped behind his after it stayed back at my house once and I just kind of wore it.”
When asked if he ever wanted it back, she said:
“He asked for it. I said no. I said no! That’s what happens in relationships. I said no.”
During that interview, she literally PULLS OUT THE JACKET and it puts it on. And that’s when the world connected the dots….
It was SRK’s jacket!
I already set the the video to start at the time she starts talking about the jacket so you can watch the cringyness for yourself here:
Reading about this situation was one thing, but seeing Priyanka talk about it is another thing. I just get the vibe that she is intentionally stirring up drama. It seems like she knew EXACTLY what she was doing. She did say that she was a little unsure about revealing this. Why? Because if it was an irrelevant ex-boyfriend, who cares? But it was SRK’s jacket. I mean the tabloids in India erupted and the majority of the comments under that video are referencing that it is indeed SRK’s jacket.
There is no reason to keep an ex-boyfriend’s jacket to begin with, let alone one that “coincidentally” is identical to the biggest star in Bollywood that you already caused a lot of controversy with.
On top of that, she was talking about how she wears it to airports because it’s so comfortable and yet… there’s only one photo of her wearing the jacket and that’s in that interview. Quite frankly, all of Priyanka’s airport candids are of her in heels, blazers, and every outfit you could think of that this is the OPPOSITE of comfortable.
Photo credit: Backgrid
Her mannerisms, the way she brought it all up, everything she said; nothing seemed genuine in that interview.
Apparently, she also liked and then unliked a fan’s tweet connecting the dots:
This led everyone to believe that she was purposely trying to stir up drama and possibly getting revenge.
Now that she’s a big American star, she can say whatever she wants about the folks back home, huh?
Going back to the movie Agneepath, one of the producers was Karan Johar, who’s a big time producer in India. Gauri and Karan are pretty good friends and word has it that he made sure never to work with Priyanka again after the SRK scandal.
Karan Johar, a Producer That Reportedly Blacklisted Priyanka
At the time (around 2012), Priyanka was reportedly talking about her new project with Karan, but he came out to say that he doesn’t know what she’s talking about. The media also reported that he didn't like the rumors being spread across by her.
The Daily Bhaskar reported that Karan said that he has no plans to work with Priyanka in the future and has not offered her any role as of now.
People were saying that this was basically the final nail that Gauri pounded in the casket of Priyanka’s Bollywood career (which we’ll get to and discuss after her marriage to Nick Jonas).
Karan has also discussed his dislike of Priyanka publicly.
First, TOI reported that a “certain friend of Priyanka Chopra was saying that the actor heard [expletive/curse] comments about her being made by a powerful producer-director."
Here’s the story:
They were at Apoorva Mehta’s birthday bash (who is Karan’s best friend), where it was reported that Karan and Priyanka were all good because onlookers said that he even fed her a cupcake. However, a friend overheard complaining about her which was then reported by TOI.
“PC is upset and flummoxed by the campaign unleashed by a powerful producer-director who can make and break careers in Bollywood,” said the source.
That’s when Karan exploded and took to Twitter to call Priyanka “spineless” and says that she’s using her PR team to get news into the tabloids.
Tweet are from April 3, 2012.
Keep in mind that this is all happening around the release of Agneepath which is when the drama erupted between SRK and Priyanka.
SRK and Priyanka were working on Don 2 in 2011 as well so this was all the aftermath. Don 3 is still not out yet (there’s a whole franchise for these Don movies if you’re unfamiliar) and production stopped once again because of the pandemic. Priyanka played the lead role in Don 2 alongside SRK, but there are reports that she is being replaced by a different Indian actress for Don 3.
This once again feeds into the fact that she was blacklisted from Bollywood.
When asked about possibly working with SRK again on Don 3 in 2019, Priyanka said, “You will have to ask the producers that. No one has spoken to me about it; it’s been almost 10 years.”
Speaking with TOI about lashing out at Priyanka on a call, Karan said "I picked up the phone and reacted like a pressure cooker. Then I realized it wasn't worth it. I called her and said I was turning 40. I have a great EQ (emotional quotient) with her. I've shared several warm moments with PeeCee. Since I am the older one, I decided to be mature.”
Even then, Karan was not invited to her wedding to Nick. As to why she didn’t invite him, Priyanka spoke about this elaborate plan set in motion by Serena Williams where they took all the guest’s phones away and how each person had an assigned bag, and then she said that Karan wouldn’t have given her his phone so she didn’t invite him.
….
She ended up coming on his show after her wedding to Nick.
After her wedding to Nick.
Keep this all in mind for the Priyanka and Nick post that will be up next week on Wednesday, February 24.
Tax Evasion and Romance With Shahid Kapoor
This one is a hilarious story. For us, not Priyanka.
In India, the equivalence of the IRS in America (Internal Revenue Service) is called IT which stands for income tax.
Priyanka was involved in a federal investigation with IT. In 2011, there was an IT raid at her house. Who opened the door for the IT officials? None other than Shahid Kapoor who Priyanka was linked to for a long time, yet neither of them confirmed it.
Shahid ended up confirming their romance in 2019 when he was on the show Koffee With Karan, alongside his wife. There he also reveals that he’s been cheated on multiple times—many believe that he was talking about Priyanka. We’ll get to that.
Luckily for them, he wasn’t married at the time of the raid.
Back to the IT raid.
This was a big scandal because she was evading tax. Apparently, neither her or her family paid their taxes and instead have been apparently buying property under fake names (this part is according to my source).
About Shahid opening the door, an IT official told the media "Shocked as we were, we knew we had a raid to carry out and that's precisely what we did. It was meant to be a swift operation and security personnel in the building were not given a chance to warn the actor that we were on the way up.”
Shahid wasn’t dressed appropriately…. seeing that he was probably in bed with Priyanka. He greeted the IT officials in shorts and as soon as he got dressed, he left the house a little after (according to Hindustan Times).
Priyanka later tried to change the narrative by saying that since she was alone at her home, she called Shahid over because he was her neighbor. She also claims that he stayed with her the whole time even though sources in the IT department say otherwise.
Sources in the IT department also said that Shahid was present when IT rang her doorbell and that “Both Shahid and Priyanka were quite shocked by the raid. Shahid could not leave immediately. So, he remained there for some time.”
A source close to Shahid and Priyanka confirmed that and said, “Yes, Shahid was present at Priyanka’s place when the IT raid happened.”
TOI also reports that Priyanka’s parents, who live in another apartment on the same floor, were also present during the search.
So….. I don’t know why Priyanka was out here lying like “Yeah I was alone during the raid and I was scared so I called Shahid who left right away in his shorts to come over here” meanwhile…. how would she call Shahid over if IT officials said they were shocked to see Shahid and that he was the one who opened for them?
A compulsive liar if you will.
At the time that these raids were happening, Priyanka was filming Don 2 and she ended up having to reschedule her filming days because of this.
IT reportedly found Rs 60 million hidden under her mattress. When asked about all of this in 2011, Priyanka rambled on about rumors and how hurt she is, but she didn’t flat out deny everything.
She said, “As far as the discovery of Rs 60 million from my house, neither I had so much of money under my mattress nor I have seen so much of money together in my life.”
When asked how did she come under IT’s radar if she’s one of the highest taxpaying actors in Bollywood, she claimed it was because she was a big star.
She said, "As people say that it happens with big stars. I still feel proud that I am counted among the few highest tax paying Bollywood stars and hope to be so as long as God continues to give me the opportunity.”
“Why were you on IT’s radar then?”
Priyanka: oh u know it’s bc I'm such a big star lolz
On the other hand… officials were saying otherwise so it just seems like she was continuously lying about what IT found, who was with her, and just overall sounding stupid when trying to explain Shahid’s presence.
An IT official said, “Primarily from what we have scrutinized, we have found that assets worth Rs six crore were not accounted for. The unaccounted assets are in various forms and we are still scrutinizing it.”
Director General of Income Tax (investigations) BP Gaur confirmed the development.
And finally… the last part of this post.
Priyanka’s Spa Busted in a Sex Racket
On November 7, 2014, Mumbai police busted the sex racket that was being run under the disguise of a spa in the property that is listed in Priyanka's name. In India, a sex racket is basically prostitution. However, prostitution is an understatement as to what was going on there.
IndiaToday writes that:
“The girls come here on tourist visa, facilitated by pimps from their home country, and are received here by middle-aged Russian women referred to as "aunties,” who have never been prostitutes themselves but are cashing in on their strong Indian connections. For them, it's not a racket but a business. Says an aunty: "More than 20,000 girls have come and gone from India over the past two years. Most have done well for themselves." Joint Commissioner of Mumbai Police Rakesh Maria says, "Pimps in India, Dubai and CIS countries work in close coordination." A secret report of the National Security Advisor's office had expressed concern over foreigners buying land illegally, presumably to carry out illicit flesh trade, particularly in places like Goa.”
For clarification, that statement was talking about India’s sex racket problem and not just in regards to the Priyanka scandal, but I mean you can piece together the facts.
Basically, Priyanka rented out this 3,000 sq ft floor as a spa in Andheri, Mumbai. She rented it out to Manik Soni who was the owner of the spa.
IndiaToday reports that three women had been rescued during the raid and the manager of the spa, Dinesh Chandrakant, had been arrested. At the time, Manik Soni was on the run.
When Priyanka was confronted about what her property was used for, she said that she had no clue what was going on. “When we rent properties, we don't go and check what is happening in the bedroom. Hence I had no knowledge about what is happening there,” she said. Then she ranted on about how she’s a law abiding citizen who will stand with whatever the cops say.
Now the funny part is that Priyanka and her mother have not only attended the launch of the spa but have been there several times. The floor isn’t that big so when they’re in the building complex, it’s pretty obvious to tell what is going on. On top of that, her mother’s clinic is right next to the spa so you’re trying to tell me you’re that oblivious? Priyanka played it off as a spa that she had no relationship to except being the one who owns the property.
However, many sources believe that not only was she well aware of what was going on there, but they allege that Priyanka brought married men there to have sex with different women, and that was just adding to the list of reasons why no one liked her in Bollywood.
Manik Soni, “is a well-known personality in the glam circle, and is usually seen organizing bashes attended by TV and Bollywood biggies,” writes TellyChakkar. Basically, he is a well known dude that threw lavish parties for the rich and famous. And what do the rich and famous like to indulge in as we’ve learned on this blog? Some pretty dark sh!t.
When the spa was raided, two other famous actresses were there. They claim that they were there for the actual spa, but who knows at this point.
Srishty Rode (an Indian actress) told TellyChakkar that “it was indeed shocking as we were at the wrong place at the wrong moment. Whoever thought that such a posh spa situated in Lokhandwala would indulge in such activities. This tells us that no place is safe in today’s world. The spa usually gets a lot of Bollywood and TV faces and is popular for its services.”
If you expect me to believe that all these celebrities were completely out of the loop just like poor Priyanka was, you’re out of your mind. I feel like they all knew what was going on, but either minded their business or took pleasure in being part of the business.
The media reported that the Mumbai police “saved three women” which alludes to the fact that this spa could have possibly run as some sort of sex trafficking scheme. Was Priyanka serving as one of the “aunties” that looked at this situation as a business as opposed to a racket? The cards don’t seem to be in her favor especially when you add the fact that she was busted by IT for tax evasion.
A source that I spoke to believes that Priyanka “was involved in that spa scandal, but it was easy for her to pin it on the owner despite being aware of what was going on.”
This brings up a different topic on this blog which is what we like to call: Dark Hollywood. Well in this case, Dark Bollywood. Sex trafficking is a very real and serious thing that goes on in general and that is heightened when it comes to the life of the rich and famous. Jeffery Epstein’s entire case revolved around him having women work for him to recruit other women that he can abuse.
So this may come as a shock to most of you reading, but to me, I stopped being shocked after the Epstein scandal when names such as Naomi Campbell, were exposed.
Virginia GIuffre, one of Epstein’s victims, calls out Naomi Campbell on Twitter.
This post took a different turn.
Do I believe that Priyanka is taking part in some sort of sex trafficking scheme right now? Probably not, but she was up to some shady sh!t in Bollywood before her Hollywood break so you tell me.
“Tell Us What Priyanka Is Like As A Person Sis!!”
This post is 1 out of 2 (so far) that have been anticipated for over a year, so I spoke to a lot of sources during this time. I was also able to get the insight of my Desi friends because when there was growing interest in Priyanka among my readerbase, I asked my Desi friends, “hey, what do you think about Priyanka, your Desi gal that is a big Hollywood star?”
When I tell you that NOT ONE person told me something good about her, I was shocked. Well, not that shocked because we’ll get to the source part.
I’ve been reading up about Priyanka and everyone cites hate against her as “racism” or “you just hate successful brown people,” so I was like lemme see what the brown people in question think!
Keep in my mind that I am speaking about MY FRIENDS, but they brought up some very good points. Priyanka isn’t your average problematic person. She’s like a seriously sh!tty person with sh!tty beliefs. For one, she was FOR nuclear war against Pakistan.
She was even confronted by Ayesha Malik, a Pakistani-American woman, who called her out for her hypocrisy. Priyanka tweeted in February 2019: "Jai Hind #IndianArmedForces,” which basically translates as Long Live India. At the time, the nuclear-armed neighbors were engaged in a fast-escalating military war.
Ayesha said, "So it was kind of hard hearing you talk about humanity because as your neighbor, a Pakistani, I know you're a bit of a hypocrite. You are a Unicef ambassador for peace, and you're encouraging nuclear war against Pakistan. There's no winner in this." Then the mic was taken away from her.
Priyanka then proceeded to gaslight her in front of everyone by saying, “Girl, don't yell. We're all here for love. Don't yell. Don't embarrass yourself. But we all walk that middle ground.”
Priyanka Chopra tweeted during a time when we were this 👌🏽 close to sending nukes to one another. Instead of advocating for peace she tweeted in support of the Indian army pic.twitter.com/LhbMkOW59v
— Ayesha Malik (@Spishaa) August 11, 2019
Ever since I saw that video on Twitter, my blood boiled. Legend has it that my blood has been boiling since.
Can you imagine being so fcking privileged to be able to tell someone who is clearly affected by her country in war and say, “Don't yell. Don't embarrass yourself. But we all walk that middle ground.” HUH????
Also, who wants to bet that Nick—her husband, probably doesn’t know anything that I exposed in today’s post. Considering their suspicious timeline, which I’ll get to next week, I’m confident when I say, I don’t think Nick really knows Priyanka and while we’re at it, I don’t even think Priyanka knows Nick.
Priyanka is the embodiment of an arrogant and privileged bigot.
Priyanka when you tell her to speak up about something important that doesn’t benefit her in some way:
Many sources who have met her or worked with her have stated that she treats people like garbage, she’s beyond rude, and that she thinks she’s hot sh!t because she’s a Bollywood actress that was able to make it big in Hollywood.
I mean…
insert cardi b screaming “what was the reason!!!”
So with this information, I dug up an old article that cited the Hindustan Times where a column by Malavika Sangghvi spilled about how Priyanka claims Hollywood is HER TERRORITY.
Malavika Sangghvi writes:
PC has confessed several times to being extremely competitive. It’s almost as if she’s got something to prove, like a chip on her shoulder; she plays much harder and believes the US is her territory and will not allow any encroachment [intrusion on a person’s terrority].
As for her sense of PR, it is fantastic! Even as the confetti had not been dusted off after the Royal wedding, almost the first photographs to emerge were posted by Team Priyanka’s Twitter handle, which declared her the event's “showstopper” Soon, social media was flooded with pictures of the star’s attire, her Vivienne Westwood bespoke lavender suit and Philippe Treacy fascinator, such inspired choices…
A source of mine confirms this information too.
One of my sources also told me that Quantico was canceled because allegedly, Priyanka was just a pain to work with and deal with. It got to the point where no one wanted anything to do with her. I searched up to see if any of her costars have said anything about her, but nope. However, time reveals all.
I know people who have met her and said she was super nice, but I’m speaking with sources that know what it’s like to work with her as opposed to a random fan going up and seeing her.
She loves the attention and she thrives on it. She thinks she’s the biggest star on the planet and that she was able to get her karma after being blacklisted in Bollywood.
Priyanka is also an instigator. She doesn’t just do the crime and move on. No, she wants to sit there and banter. We saw that with the SRK-leather-jacket scenario. We saw that with her inventing outrageous lies during the IT raid despite officials saying otherwise.
She’s quirky, she’s beautiful, she’s funny; who wouldn’t like Priyanka, right? Well once again, that’s another image portrayed by a celebrity. From how she’s been described to me, she wants to be seen as this perfect celebrity that has it all. Including bagging a big name in music such as Nick Jonas.
Her marriage to Nick came alongside the removal of her name from Bollywood’s blacklist.
We have finally reached the end of this post. I probably should have made this post into 2 with the amount of information I included. There’s still so much more to spill, but this officially marks the first Priyanka Chopra post on this blog. Anyways, I’m super intrigued to read your comments, thoughts, insight, and questions!
Comment down below what you thought of the post. Did anything here shock you? What do you think of Priyanka? You can comment anonymously so take advantage of that. We will be reading and replying back ;)