I Couldn’t Step Out For 4 Days: Radhika Apte On Nude Video Leak Controversy
Mumbai: Actress Radhika Apte recalled the time when a nude video leaked and reports claimed it was her in the clip. The clip was from Radhika’s film Clean Shaven and she has said that she was not the one in it.
Radhika played the role of a sex worker in Leena Yadav’s Parched, which received widespread critical acclaim in 2016. She started her journey in the Hindi film industry with a small role in the 2005 film Vaah! Life Ho Toh Aisi!
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Talking about her role in Parched, Radhika told Grazia magazine, “I really needed a role like this because when joining Bollywood I was constantly told what to do with your body and I always said that I would never do anything for my body or face. When a nude clip of mine leaked, while I was filming Clean Shaven, I was trolled badly, and it did affect me. I couldn’t step out of the house for four days, not because of what the media was saying but because my driver, watchman, and my stylist’s driver recognised me from the images.”
She added, “The controversial photographs were bare-skinned selfies, and anyone with a sane eye would have guessed it wasn’t me. I don’t think there is anything one can do, or one should do, but ignore it. Anything else is a waste of your time. So, when I stripped for Parched, I realised: ‘There’s nothing left for me to hide.”
Radhika was most recently seen in Disney+HotStar’s OK Computer that also featured Vijay Varma and Jackie Shroff.
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