Priyanka Chopra Jonas: Falling in Love With Yourself & Then Your Soulmate [VIDEO]

Priyanka Chopra Jonas welcome to call her daddy.

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And we were moving from Delhi somewhere else I can't remember. And I had to leave my friends and my school, and I was doing really well in class. My best friend, her name was Denise.

And she and I cried, and I was really mad at my dad. And I was like, I don't want to leave here. Why do I have to leave if you have to leave? And he explained it to me in such an amazing way.

He was like, you know your math class that you don't like at all? He was like, if you go to a new school, they won't know, you don't like math. He was like, if you go to the new school, you could be whoever you want. So that really pivoted me for my whole life. He made everything an adventure for us.

Every journey. We loved road trips, so we used to just like dump our shit in the car. And like, drive to the Himalayan mountains and like, go to a small Himalayan city or mountain city. And go for the weekend, even for like, three days, there was such a spirit of adventure because we moved so much. But also, I was like, even now I don't think I have material attachments.

Like, I'm not like, I need my bed, I don't. I can just grab a bunch of shit and go to another hotel and like, I can move, like, I'm just transient.

As long as I have my family, I have the six things that I like, like my Swell water bottle, which is my emotional support water bottle. I have a big old bag of all my Mary Poppins. Shit like, whatever you can think of is probably in there.

She's my longest, I guess, old friendship besides my cousins, I come from a big, large Indian family, so that became a sort of consistent friendship. But I don't think till I turned 17, I probably started working that I had, like, I don't have a childhood best friend that I can, that is still my childhood best friend.

Life is great when you can pop in and out.

We have 100 kids to one class. exactly, Alex's jaw is on the floor. Yes, we have almost 160 to 100 kids in one class, and the teachers move classes.

The kids don't. can you imagine hallways like 100 kids per class? Exactly so.

Our kids stay in their classroom that they're assigned to for the whole day, come out for recess and our teachers move around. So we had differences like that. Also, I had never been to an Indian school that had a swimming pool, that had a football field, that had hallways the size of a whale.

There was just so much space, and Iowa specifically, houses were so far away from each other. I went on bus rides, I didn't even see human beings.

I was like, Damn, they should take a whole state from India. We'd have so much more room, right? But that was a big thing for me, I was the enormity of everything.

Everything was supersized.

That was me, and it was really, really hard to love any part of myself. I was physically bullied, I was verbally bullied, it was fucking awful.

I literally cry every time I talk about it.

So I wanted to share that though, because I know that you have been kind of open about. You were bullied in high school, but what specifically were you picked on for?

I think one of them thought her boyfriend was into me or we were spending time together. I wasn't even allowed to go out after school, where was I going to be spending time with this boy? So when there's this rumor going around that he spent like the weekend with me. I don't know which girl he was with, but there was some ish like that and these girls just started taking me on.

But what they started saying was, instead of like, bitch, stay away from my man, they started, like, you know, using racial slurs. So like, I smell curry. ooh, I smell curry. Walking down the hallway, like, I don't think she had time to shower, like, just nasty racial things.

And then it just became bullying, because, you know, pushing against lockers, just saying nasty things, writing something nasty in the bathroom, in the stalls. You know, it's just like things like mean girl stuff that, you know, that high school is made of. I think it was just who knows what it was? I can't go back and dissect it. I can only talk about how it made me feel and how it made me feel was less than.

How it made me feel was inferior, smaller, it made me like, want to dim my shine. It made me want to, like, you know, curl my toes. And I'm not that girl. My parents raised me with confidence.

They raised me with having my shine and being okay with it. They raised me like I wasn't shy and they were okay with that. They loved that about me and that was encouraged. So I started, like, kind of, you know, becoming just smaller because I was just like, not comfortable with any part of myself. So then I did what my dad taught me.

He was like, just pack your bags and go, and I left, and I was like, Fuck you America, I'm going back to India. And I went back to India, and thank God, I did because it's kick-started my whole career.

You know, I did not have the time or did not allow myself the time to think about it. I did not allow myself to think about why I was behaving a certain way. I just was in survivor mode. I think also, you know, I think in my country, we are so many people in India.

Opportunities are less, and I think as women, I started working as soon as I went back to India after high school. I won this little pageant called Miss World. And that just little thing. Because I think culturally also, you know, we're taught very often in countries that are developing and developing countries.

That, you know, if you don't work hard, and if you don't like work hard every day, it's going to be taken away from you. You know, you have to. You can't rest on your laurels. You can't take a second to be like, Oh, I just had that, let me just take a second to celebrate.

You don't have time for it, somebody else is going to take it from you, so you kind of are always in survival mode. And my 20s were entirely like that, like I didn't take a vacation until I was in my 30s. I think because I was like, Oh, no, someone's going to take this from me.

I have to keep running.

Breaking up with the whole country, I broke up with America, I was like, This sucks. I'm going back to India, and when I went back to India, I land into this small town called Bareilly in India.

I walk into Army Public School looking like that girl, and everyone in Army Public School wears uniforms. We're not allowed to because of the socioeconomic differences between kids, schools prefer uniforms, so everyone's the same in class. So no one can be like, Ah, I'm wearing this like branded thing and the other kid doesn't have it.

And I walk in, like.

I don't know, man, like I was Angelina Jolie or something, I felt myself so....

I was like, You know what, Janine?

Janine was her name. I was like, You know what, Janine? When I landed into Bareilly, I was like, I am the Queen of this castle. You cannot take that away from me. I was such a peacock.

I'm willing to learn from you.

Because I think that's an amazing quality. But I'm wondering, have you ever, on the opposite end, had a hard time? If you're having a hard time, do you always end up walking away? Because you just know you can leave and you can go somewhere else?

Like, that's so funny and I need to unpack this with a therapist. Somebody please send me recommendations.

Because I was like, this doesn't affect me. Yeah, you don't hurt me, you don't have the power. But I didn't realize it was chipping away at my soul.

So I used to state, whether it's professional relationships, personal relationships, especially when it comes to human beings. I was like, if you're being mean to me and I want to, you know, like on set or something. Or Divas, you know, I'm an actor, I've worked for the actors, right? I've met a lot of divas. And you know, people who need things their way or the highway.

And I used to be able to just, you know, let it be water off my back. I would be. I would tell myself that it doesn't affect me, I'm professional, I'm just going to work through it.

Or I'm loyal, so I'm going to stay in this. You're hurting me because you're probably hurt, you know? I always had some sort of empathy. It took me till my like late 30s to finally be like, I'm not taking your shit.

Right, like, that's shit. I smell it from a distance and I'm not sitting in it.

Step aside in your uniforms, totally.

Just do your work, just survive. Because that's what they had to do. When they came to a country, they didn't know the language, they didn't know the cultures.

They just kept their heads down and worked right, so that was the culture that was taught to us. But I inherently was a peacock, and I was like, somebody's trying to curb my shine here, you know?

Look at me. But I was trying to find my confidence in Cedar Rapids. And I remember I tried to find the cafeteria and you had to go down this spiral staircase to reach this giant cafeteria, which was like a whole floor. And I remember looking down like that, and it was like a movie. I was like, Oh, those are the popular kids.

Okay, okay, nerds, great. Where am I sitting? Everyone had their clicks, everyone had their friends.

I didn't even know how to get the food, so I walked downstairs and I'm like, kind of observing, I don't know anyone. And I got so terrified that I went upstairs. I put 50 cents in the vending machine.

I got a bag of doritos, I went to the bathroom because I didn't want to go to my next class, it was Spanish. I still remember I went to the bathroom, sat on the commode and ate my doritos for lunch and cried. And I was like, this is terrifying.

But I chose it. I had told my mom I wanted to stay and I was like, I'm going to suck it up, It's okay, it's okay.

I've always been able to talk myself out of my stress, maybe because I traveled. I was raised by many people, not just my parents, My aunts raised me, my grandmother raised me because my parents were working parents.

My mother was doing her master's when I was born, so it was my grandparents for four or five years, it was my aunts and family and extended family. I've always somehow been able to allow myself to feel broken completely.

Either go to bed, eat a tub of ice cream or a pizza. Process the feelings. And I have allowed myself that duration of whatever that grief is, instead of being hard on myself. And then I've also been my own champion, like, I'll dust myself off. And sometimes that time has just been lunch break.

And sometimes that time has lasted three or four years. But I've kind of, maybe that's why I've never found a therapist is because I just kind of do that to myself. I give myself a hug.

You cried with your Doritos, but then still, the next day, the fact that you could have left, you could have.

I just didn't know what to do and how to make friends. And it's a new country. I always grew up speaking English, so that was never a problem, it was just the social awkwardness of I spoke differently.

My accent was different, I dressed differently, you know, I just, I mean, I was still in jeans. But I was like, I wasn't cute yet. Like, I hadn't figured out what fashion was because I was in a uniform in school.

I'm struggling to, like, find the self-confidence. I feel like you had a very specific situation where all odds were kind of against you and you made the most. Like, what is your advice to someone that's currently going through a similar situation that you were?

But I've always my mom says that to me. She's like, you've always been someone who, like, just bounces up and you're like, Oh, it's okay, it's okay. It was a mistake, I'll try it again.

But if you treat life like that, like whenever life has been tough, and it's been tough many times, it's been challenging. You know? It's been almost down and out and you don't want to get out of bed and you don't want to see anyone. But my job, I can't make an excuse when I have to go on set.

Like, canceling a day of production is 400 people not getting paid, it is an insurance liability. It is. So whatever's happening in my life, I had to show up to set, I would go into the trailer, I would take a moment.

I would cry my eyes out, I'd be on the phone, I'd have the fight with the boyfriend. I'd like, be upset with whatever is happening, you know, be rejected for a movie, handle it. I grew up in the public eye.

So I kind of realized that my best person was me. I had to rely on my skill set. So, like, if you're having a tough time with a new job, you don't have to worry about people liking you. Or you're not there for that, you've got to be good at your job. So I, whenever I was nervous or I was scared, I started focusing on whatever was the goal in that moment. Whether that was the relationship, whether that was the movie, whether that was, you know, whatever it might be, you know, wearing the right dress or figuring out you know, how to make friends in a new school.

Like, you know, I kind of was like, Okay, what's my goal? My goal is to make friends. So tomorrow I'm going to go downstairs to the cafeteria with my bag of doritos and just observe. So I watched alone, I was fine.

I was just like watching. I was like, Okay, that kid picks up a tray from there, you put the tray down there, they give you food, you come to this side.

You pay the woman and then you find your friends. So I was like, there are a couple of things I have to learn here. I have to figure out what food they feed me and where I'm sitting, because I don't know anybody.

We see our me included. Like, I put my best version out there. I don't want you to see me in my like, you know, mourning face with, like, you know, swollen eyes like.

I don't want you to see that, and that's the truth. We live in a world where optics matter and people have given it so much equity right now. But you have to know that all of those people have their shit.

Man is not an island. Humans are not meant to be alone, we are social creatures. We have to have, whether that's two people, one person, three people, whoever, you have to build a community.

The importance of community. I can't even stress much. It's like my sanity and I've dealt in this amazingly beautiful two decade career ups and downs. Shit being said to me, being rejected. Being a woman in the industry, aging in the industry, I'm expected to look like. I looked at 18. So many things that you know you deal with, that hurt that you handle.

But when you go home and you sit with your friends or your family and you're like yourself, goofy, silly, snotty. When you cry and they still love you and they still want you to win, then nothing else matters. Then it's a job.

And then, at the start of your career, you also face scrutiny where you had to get a nose job for medical reasons. And people in the media, people in the industry, had so much to say about it. Can you talk about that experience and like what you remember about that time?

By the time I was like, in my mid-20s, I was like, Fuck this, I'm done explaining to people because I'm being used. It's giving another wave of fresh gossip to the gossip rags, right? If I comment on something that is inaccurate or, like, you know, wrongly quoted or whatever, I'm just giving a fresh cycle of news. So I was just like, unless it's hurting someone, or unless it's like, it doesn't matter to me.

It's like, what's written about me in the rags or the gossip, or all of that is not my job. The fame is a byproduct of my job. my job is entertainment, like acting. So I came to terms with that. But when I was younger at that time, I'll take you back to what I felt like.

I was 18.

I just won Miss World and I was always a sickly kid. I had asthma when I was growing up. Anyway, I'm in London, have this because that's where Miss World resides.

And I had this like sinus like insane cold headaches, went to the doctor, they had to do a polypectomy, apparently it was called.

And I don't know like I had a thing on my nose and he just came out and he said, I'm 18. So I didn't make sense of it very much, he said. Oh, you know, I just like. Added finishing touches to your nose as well since you were in there and all's great and whatever.

And he was like, Oh, you're going to India, you could travel to India. It's all good. And my mom was like, No. I think we'll wait for, like, the thing to come off and bandages to come off anyway, that stuff comes off. My nose is a different shape.

Apparently the bridge of my nose collapsed or something during surgery.

And this guy like, bandaged it off or something, and I was so anyway, I land into India. My dad and mom are devastated because obviously I've just become a public person.

And now I look completely different. People think it's the choice that went wrong. And I was anyway feeling trauma, like I wouldn't look at the mirror. I remember I was just turned 19..

It was time to give away the crown. And I was so traumatized and depressed because I thought my and I was told, and it was at that time, my face was my career.

And it was now like it looked like something completely that I didn't recognize and I was very depressed. My best friend Tamanna really helped me through it. That time, my dad, because he was a surgeon, found like amazing surgeons in India and helped me reconstruct it. But it took a couple of years for it to kind of come back close to what it is right now.

But I was kicked out of movies that time. I remember there were screen tests done because there was gossip around how I changed my face. And I was signed for this big movie because I was miss World.

And they were like, we want to do a screen test with you, and I was told like, you know, we're just going in a different direction. And I had signed, so I was kicked out of two movies. I was the lead in one movie and made the supporting part, and somebody else was cast as the lead.

And I just thought my career was over before it even started. I was just like, and my dad and mom sat me down, they said. Guess what, the great part of this is, this was never supposed to be your career.

You were working to be an engineer. You could be anything you want to be. We'll fix your nose. Sure your parents are doctors like, we got this.

They just took the power away from it. And my dad was like, I'd signed these four movies and I was like, you know, there's no point. He was like, you've made this commitment, just do these four. You can always go back to college.

Like, it doesn't matter, go back to school, like want to go study in Australia, go to Australia, do whatever you want if it doesn't work out.

And I was like.

And by the end of those two or three movies, I knew what I was doing for the rest of my life.

Like he would physically shed tears and get really hurt when I was hurt. But my parents had this amazing ability to just diffuse it, and when it gets diffused, and I've always tried to implement that in my life. Is like, when you feel like it's so big and it's overwhelming, and there's no space in the room and you can't breathe. Because you're thinking about this thing, and it's big, and it's big, and it's big. When you open up a window, there's suddenly air, right that window is talking about it.

That window is talking to someone soundly and decompressing someone you trust, someone you know, has your best interest at heart, and just talking about it. Two days, five days, three hours, whatever it might take, it just takes away the power of that gnarly thing and then you can take a breath and take an informed decision.

It is you don't want to listen at that point and you've got to.

When you're younger, at least for me, I was at a time in my life where I was developing and growing. And I had really. You know, I come from a country where in Asia there's massive equity on light skin, so everybody wants to be lighter skinned, and in America, everybody wants to be darker skinned. Because you're in tanning machines and tanning salons and for the longest time. When I was young, I didn't think that my skin was pretty and that I was dark skinned. And I'm not even that dark skinned compared to people. Because that's the normal that I grew up with.

And then when I was in high school, I had like scars, I was a tomboy. I didn't. I wasn't comfortable with, like how my legs looked, it wasn't all smooth, my hair was frizzy.

I was just not confident, you know, so you grapple with that stuff, but you kind of. I found expression and fashion and how to express, and how I dressed and makeup, and like fun friends. You know, going to the mall like boys, all those things distracted me. But I think in entertainment.

Like the narratives are set by our industry, a lot of our. The narratives that my younger self went through were because there were ads on TV, which I also participated in. Later. Because it was that normal. That told me that the lighter I was, the prettier I was. And that narrative was set by the industry that I joined, and then our industry, whether that's beauty and standards of beauty, like now, we're at an age where we're talking about it.

When I first joined, like 20 years ago, we didn't talk about it, it was just expected. That you are reed skinny, like your pelvic bones show that. And it doesn't matter how you get there. Or, you know, you look a certain way, and anything deviating from that is not pretty. People in fashion, people in film, could actually ask you to be a certain body weight.

They could actually tell you that, you know, you have to be able to get into this dress. Size like that was all okay and normal. Now it happens behind closed doors, it still happens.

And that's me now at this position in my life. I cannot imagine young kids out there who subliminally or loudly, have to hear it. So I think the conversation needs to be loud about, like, how destructive that pattern is. And who decides what is beautiful? Just like art, beauty is subjective what's beautiful?

In your culture, like I just said, everyone is jumping into tanning machines in America and everyone using, like fairness, creams in Asia. So I just think that when we talk about inclusion, we have to give room for what inclusion and what beauty looks like. We have to break actually the narratives that we set up of, you know, a long time ago, of what beauty is. We have to have healthy conversation about the female body, the male body and aging, and the reality of that.

He's got to feel great, like that thing. And I also come from a patriarchal society where women, I mean, I think the world is kind of patriarchal. But back home also, you know, like there's a normalcy around, like the men eating first and then women in the kitchen. And you know, you just stay at home. You don't need a career. Yes, there are so many women around the world that are stepping out and wanting and fighting for their opportunity to go to school. To be able to have an education, to have a career, or to just make choices?

You know, so at that time, it was like when I was younger, it was. I was just very grateful to be from a family where my parents gave me that. But, um, lost my train of thought. No, you're, it's so interesting.

No, it is.

Or even if it was like, fine and amicable, but it ended like, Well, why? And if you just keep going, you're going to do the same thing over and over. And to hear you being like. It was like people pleasing and I was making sure he was good and I was sacrificing things that I wanted. You're never going to change unless you're like, Priyanka, what am I doing? what do I need to adjust?

When you're in relationships where you stop recognizing who you are, you stop having your own identity. Or you stop knowing what is it that you want by yourself? Or what your goals are? You know, then you're invisible, and I just started feeling invisible in my relationships. And it and my husband makes me feel so seen and so heard. And in fact, I think he thrives on seeing me shine, like he will watch me, like he's the most excited about the shows that I'm doing, he was most excited. You know, when I'm on a carpet, you know, he'll step aside and he'll take like pictures of me. It's just like, Come on, what was I thinking? That's what you want?

You want your man to be your champion, you want not. You don't want your man to be insecure by you or intimidated by you. Or, like, you know, like guys, especially when I'm I'm an alpha girl, I'm I'm an ambitious girl. I am a go-getter. I am not ashamed of that.

I've built my career on my own back and my own steed, and I've worked for it. My fortune's mine, you know, like, you don't want to be with a guy that dims your shine or feels the need to take away from you, even for a moment. You want to be with a partner that says, You know what, babe? There's a problem, but I'll tell you later.

I got it right now. Why don't you go do your show? Let's have a fun time, even if there's an issue.

Like, that's what you do and like, I've found my husband and I have this incredible partnership of, you know, I got you. And we communicate and we feel like a sense of I can lean. You know, that trust exercise, like I would never do that with anyone else except Nick. I don't trust people, but he's one that, just, I know, has my back.

So sexy.

You're like.

But Kevin had watched Quantico, Nick's older brother, and had told Nick like, you guys should meet, and I was doing my TV show, Quantico at that time. And I had a co-actor called Graham, and he had done a movie with Nick and he was like, You guys should meet again. I was in a relationship at that point and so was Nick, but my co-actors hated my boyfriend at the time. Because I would always be on the phone in tears and they'd be waiting for me, like, get out of there. They were like, you need to get out of this fucking relationship because I was always crying.

And so they were always trying to be like, Okay, we found this new guy, this guy. So my co-actor, Graham, he was like, you know, you must meet Nick, he's so lovely, you guys should really get on. I didn't take this seriously because I was in the throes of my tumultuous relationship at that point. But he slid into my DMS and I was like, okay.

Like any self-respecting girl, I googled him.

I was like, let's find out one night room service me and Google.

And guess what came up? This video called Close and I didn't know. I mean, I knew of the Jonas brothers, but I different generations also. But like, I also didn't really know. I grew up in India, you know, I was doing like Indian pop culture at that time. I didn't know about the music as much. So I wanted to google it. And I was like, Okay, he looks great in his photos.

So I need to like, know, and this video for close comes up, and I immediately send him my number.

You're like, yup, sold at least a date that body deserves at least a date you're like.

It's so relatable.

We're talking about the future. I always say this I don't read my book backwards, like I believe. You know you go forward in your chapters. There's a reason you've left people behind.

If they're supposed to come into your life, they will don't fight it. But I landed on that video and I saw it and I had to, like, open the window or something. I was like, dang, immediately, you're like.

I just saw the video for close.

I was still trying to catch up. The thing with Nick is anyone who knows him will know this about him. You will play catch up with Nick because he's a leader. He's like, he'll take you and envelope you in this cloud of nickdom, and you just kind of go with it. He's an experienced guy.

Whatever happens around him will be amazing. It's just it's like, and all his friends will tell you this, but it's just you, like, just go with it. And that's what happened when, you know, he and I finally went on a date, I was out of my relationship.

I think he was out of his. We'd been trying to meet a couple of times. He had asked me out on one of our first dates. To the White House for Yeah, didn't go. That day, he went with Jonathan Tucker.

Damn it Tucker. Yeah, because I was filming, but he still makes fun of me. He was like, Can you imagine what a story that would have been like? Our first date was Obama's last like dinner or whatever, President Obama's last dinner.

Yeah, didn't go, but we got married, so that's a better story, right? So it did work out.

But, you know, I don't lead with that, but it's like, it's a big part of my life. And he was very insightful about it. So that softened my cold, icy heart at that point a little bit. And then he was like, Hey, I'm going to see Beauty and the Beast with a bunch of my friends. Why don't you bring a friend along and we'll go? He's so smart.

He knew if he said, come with friends and I'm going with friends, and now he admits it. He was like, he actually was asking me out, but he just like, padded it with friends, so I don't feel so smart.

And it was a magical evening and nothing happened. Dropped me to my hotel room and I remember being just so giddy and it was late at night. We were with all his friends, who all are amazing people, like, Who is this man? surrounded by great people. Family guys hang out with their brothers like they smoke cigars, have tequila, that's their worst vice play golf and love sports, love like kids, love parents, their parents like what?

And I'm like, Shit, is it close to cricket? is it the same thing? I don't even know cricket properly? Like, Wait, how do I make conversation? I was so stressed out.

My cousin, her daughter, my best friend were getting dressed. I wore a dress. I was like, Listen, I'm wearing a dress. I wore little kitten heels because I was like, I'm not doing sneakers. I'm not a sports girl.

And at that time, I wasn't at all. Anyway. We go to the Dodgers game and it was him and I.

And I did not need to know baseball.

I did not need to know anything. He talked me through it, he got me snacks, he made jokes. I tried to bring the side cap in and he was like, it'll never come back free.

Don't try.

He made me laugh, he made me feel safe, he did not make me feel like I was ignorant about this game that I didn't know anything about. He taught me, he showed me the rules.

Oof, that night, like we were together till 2 o'clock in the morning and then every day we just met. And the next day he was like, come to the studio again. He's so calculating now I'm knowing him, I'm like, I see what you did.

He was like, come to the studio next day, and I was like, Yeah, sure, I've been to studios. I was a pop star once for four singles.

Conducting a gospel choir of 20 gospel singers and.

For a Broadway show that he has written about, Curious George written, so he's composing this music and these singers are singing. And I swear. I felt my knees just like buckle for a second. And you know, I was like, Oh, I had a meeting, so I had to leave, and I was like, Okay, I'm gonna go. But I think that was the day. I knew that I always knew I had to marry someone that inspired me, I always knew that I would marry someone that made me awestruck.

His talent makes me awestruck, just watching him communicate through music just like I, it's like it's magical.

I'm like, why are you so mean? and he's like, It's my brother. I'm like, Oh, it's like, that's such a weird thing. They do, but they love each other, you know? And they're like, and like, just mean and take the piss of each other. And I don't know, I don't know if sisters do that.

But it's so beautiful. I wanted. I've always wanted a big family, I come from a big family, but I wanted a big family that is supportive and loves each other. And my in-laws, and my brother-in-laws, and our whole family. When my Indian side and theirs comes together, it's just like a big old family. And who would have thought that?

The normalcy with which they operate, the simple things. I'm so amazed at it every time because I would have thought with, you know? I found out a lot more about the Jonas brothers and their history when their documentary came out. With Happiness begins, I knew of it. My mother-in-law talked to me about stories from back in the day and I'd obviously seen clips here and there. You know of the fact that they had insane fandom when they were very young, like at 13 or whatever. But when I saw that stuff and even when I go to their shows now, their fans are so amazing and invested. And they mean so much to these people that have grown up with them, that they have grown up with. It's just so. And I mean, I feel a certain sense like that with, you know, my fans who've seen me from my first movie to now, like Citadel or Love again.

It's like they've been on this ride with me, but their sense of normalcy, like.

They're the most normal, fun people.

And it's really fucking cool to sit with you and hear. From where you started eating your doritos in the bathroom to now being like, Oh, I have two movies here you go, Love Again and Citadel are out right now, you can go watch. It's just a cool full circle moment to see. You really can accomplish whatever you want if you just put your mind to it. Can you talk to us a little bit about the movies? Because Daddy Gang is going to want to watch, they're going to want to?

This is that my character loses her fiance, he dies, and she's so sad and broken up about it. That she starts texting his old phone, and that phone belongs to Sam Heughan's character. And he starts getting messages from me that I'm sending to my dead boyfriend. And obviously, we meet, we fall in love, and Celine helps us come together. Because, and she orchestrates, she's playing herself, he's a journalist, and she orchestrates us meeting. And but it's such a fun, sweet premise, it warms your heart, it like, when I watched it, it was. I was just like, people need to make more rom-coms, you know? And I don't even like watching my own movies, but this was just so heartwarming and it's such a fun, sweet movie.

I'm going to wear my sneakers and my sweats and I'm going to come in and I'll answer her questions. But I have to tell you, like, people love your show and people love what you stand for. And I really think that you have a daddy gang because you're such a smart, strong girl. I get interviewed a lot, but it matters to me when someone asking the question actually has read up on, done their research, and actually treats me like a human being rather than just a subject. And that's why you have the love that you do, because that's what you do for your people.

Okay.