Anupama says she was ‘sl*t-shamed’ by ex amid Dhruv Vikram break-up rumours: ‘Destroyed me’

“For two years of my life, I’ve been constantly pretending that I’m okay. The person you are talking to right now is the same person I am everywhere. I don’t wear a mask and walk out of the home. For the last two years, I’ve been pretending to be okay. And once I did not,” said the actor on Dhyan Varma’s YouTube channel. Back when she broke down on the stage, and the press present at the occasion asked her what happened, she blamed it on the fact that it’s not easy to do and promote a small, woman-led film like Paradha.

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However, now, Anupama has clarified that her breaking down on stage “had nothing to do with Paradha”, but was all about what she was going through in her personal life. “Imagine your own boyfriend sl*t-shaming you before you go onto a stage,” said the actor. She also added that her health had started getting affected, including panic and anxiety attacks, drastic weight loss, blackouts, and twitching of right eye, which even forced the makers to stop the shoot. She had to undergo an urgent eye surgery soon after.

“I was slut-shammed by my ex-boyfriend just before entering the stage for promotion of my film ‘Parada’ and I felt ashamed to be an actress and ashamed to have PERIODS being a WOMAN!”

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Anupama even claimed that she began “hating being a woman” because irrespective of when she’d get her periods, her ex-boyfriend would blame her behaviour on her fluctuating hormones. “I was so ashamed. At this point, I don’t even want kids. I felt so embarrassed being a woman,” added the actor.

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Anupama also alleged on the podcast that she faced “narcissistic abuse” from her boyfriend of two years. “There were direct interventions (from him) in things that were completely under my control. To be very honest, I was in a state where I would break into tears if someone simply asked, ‘How are you?’ Throughout my career, I always maintained very high professional ethics, but if I behaved unprofessionally and without ethics over the past two years, it was because of that person’s control over me,” she added.