Actress Sunny Leone is no stranger to online hatred and trolling. The Canadian adult film star turned Bollywood diva has been the target of malicious comments and derogatory messages time and again.
If you thought it started with her return to India and entry into Bollywood, you are mistaken, clarifies Leone.
I started getting hate mails and criticism when I was around 21 years old. So it has nothing to do with the country, but society in general. That was the first time I faced real hatred.Sunny Leony to IANS
With her straightforward personality, Leone is known to give it back to trolls without stooping to throw counter insults at them. Remember this one incident when Ram Gopal Varma had mentioned Leone in a Women’s Day tweet last year. It certainly didn’t go down well with the feminists in the country.
Well, this was Leone’s response to it.
But Leone wasn’t always this mature and level-headed in handling trolls and sexist commentary, as she shares in her latest interview.
But at the age of 21, when you see people are saying really nasty things about you, it affects you so badly... I was vulnerable and broken from within emotionally.Sunny Leone
While giving an interview on her upcoming appearance in the biopic based on her life titled Karenjit Kaur - The Untold Story of Sunny Leone, she opened up on how her parents dealt with the hate that came her way.
"Reverse psychology always happens and that was definitely the case with me and my parents. They were thinking that if they forcefully stop me, I might just gain more curiosity and then I might not return from that world.”
"Of course, I went to a different direction that my parents did not want me to... But I want to say that I love my life the way it is and everything happens for a reason. I have no complaints,” Leone added.
‘My Children Shouldn’t Face The Hatred I Did’
Sunny and her husband Daniel Weber are now proud parents of three children — Asher, Noah and Nisha. They adopted Nisha, and their twin sons were born via surrogacy.
She wants her kids to enjoy their freedom, but hopes that they are “good people who do not hurt anyone physically and emotionally.”
As a mother, Sunny also feels protective of her kids. She doesn’t want them to persecuted or trolled for the personal and professional choices they make.
I may or may not agree with their choices in life, as individuals that is their choice. I think all I want as a mother is my children should not go through such hatred from the society that I faced.
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