Priyanka Chopra says dad discouraged her from learning cooking, she is ‘not helpful in kitchen’: ‘I am intimidated by it’

Priyanka, who credits her father Ashok Chopra for her success, has a tattoo inked in her right wrist that reads, “Daddy’s Lil Girl”.

Being born to an army couple, Priyanka often moved to multiple places. She said, “My dad made it a game. He was like, ‘You get to transform and be whoever you want to be at the new place.’ That was such a powerful concept to me.”

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Priyanka often speaks about her father at various events and interviews. Previously, speaking to Vogue India, the actress told, “My dad was my biggest cheerleader. Any awards show, he would be my date. Every time I won anything, he’d be like, ‘Yeah!’ as if he’d won. I was like, ‘Dad, just turn it down by 10. He enjoyed my achievements more than I did.”

In another interview with the publication, Priyanka said, “After dad passed, me, my brother and my mother decided consciously to do it, but I still had a lot of negative feelings. I felt abandoned, I was angry and there were a lot of feelings that I had and didn’t know what to do with them.”

Ashok Chopra died in 2013 after losing battle with cancer.