I feel violated as a woman: Deepika Padukone fights back

Mumbai: “I feel violated as a woman,” says actress Deepika Padukone who has taken on Times of India (TOI) for publishing a photograph of hers that revealed her cleavage.

The actress said that the publication had tweeted this photo a year ago two days after the event from which it was taken. “I had let it go then. But why publish it again a year after the event? For eyeballs? As actors, we go through a lot of scrutiny, criticism. I have the spine to absorb this kind of negativity,” she said.

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Deepika added: “In fact, I was frightened that it might all backfire on me, that the media will turn against me but that was not the case. I was surprised and overwhelmed,” she said in an interview to NDTV.

We represent here the tweet by TOI and her subsequent response.