Sunny Leone recalls how she got hate mail, death threats from India when she started career as an adult actor in the US: ‘I was 19-20, first encounter with trolls’

Sunny confessed that even though she did not want anyone to judge her, she was doing the same thing and called it “hypocritical.” “I think at that point in my life… you want nobody to judge you. But I was doing the same thing, its very hypocritical. I was thinking in my head there’s no way people are going to accept me there. I am not going to go somewhere where I am going to be treated badly,” she said.

The Splitsvilla host then confessed that the only reason behind her thinking was that she would get a lot of hate mail during her late teens from India when she started her career in the adult entertainment industry. “In the beginning of my career, I received so much hate mail and death threats and all sorts of crazy things when I first came into the adult entertainment industry that I said there is no way I will ever go to India as Sunny Leone because they are so angry at me,” she said. When asked if she got death threats from India, Sunny replied in the affirmative.

“When I got those letters, I was 19-20 and when you are 19-20 there’s a lot of things that affect you in a certain way that would never affect me now and you just don’t know. And I was alone so it wasn’t like I had someone to guide me, or speak to about these things saying ‘it’s okay, relax, don’t worry about haters, there are so many out there’. That was my first encounter with trolls and people talking all sorts of bad things,” she said.

Sunny then accepted that she was wrong to judge because when she arrived in India, the response was just the opposite. “I was so wrong. I was judging. When I came here, the majority, let’s say 90 per cent people, were not judging me. They were in support and that 10 per cent didn’t matter,” she said.

Sunny will soon be seen in an Anurag Kashyap directorial but the filmmaker is yet to reveal any details about the film.