Priyanka Chopra revealed Tuesday that a botched nose surgery drove her into a “deep depression.”
“It was a dark phase,” the 40-year-old “Love Again” actress said on SiriusXM’s “The Howard Stern Show.”
She underwent the career-altering procedure after winning the title of Miss World 2000 and as she was being courted by Bollywood.
Chopra said doctors recommended she get a polyp in her nasal cavity removed. She claims the surgeon accidentally shaved the bridge of her nose and caused it to collapse — leading her to be fired from three movies.
She feared her acting career was “over before it started.”
“This thing happens, and my face looks completely different, and I went into a deep, deep depression,” added Chopra, who said she dreaded leaving the house.
Her father, who is a doctor, eventually coaxed Chopra into a surgical correction — despite her fears.
She was able to “build back [her] confidence.”
She also credited Bollywood film director Anil Sharma for giving her work.
“He, while the tide was against me, said, ‘It will be a small part, but give it your all.’ And I did,” Chopra explained.
This isn’t the first time the actress has gotten candid about the surgery.
In her 2021 memoir “Unfinished,” Chopra recalled thinking her decimated self-esteem would never “recover from the blow.”
She said she was encouraged to get more cosmetic procedures to boost her career.
She told of a director/producer making her spin around so he could get a good look at her features.
“He stared at me long and hard, assessing me, and then suggested that I get a boob job, fix my jaw, and add a little more cushioning to my butt,” she wrote in her book. “If I wanted to be an actress, he said, I’d need to have my proportions ‘fixed,’ and he knew a great doctor in LA he could send me to. My then-manager voiced his agreement with the assessment.”
She said she eventually ditched her manager and decided not to heed the advice. Save for her nose, the “Citadel” star learned to appreciate her own beauty.
“If I looked like other ‘classically beautiful’ girls, then I wouldn’t stand out, and more important, I wouldn’t be me,” she divulged in the book.
“Now when I look in the mirror, I am no longer surprised; I’ve made peace with this slightly different me … I’m just like everyone else: I look at myself in the mirror and think maybe I can lose a little weight; I think maybe I can work out a little more. But I’m also content. This is my face. This is my body. I might be flawed, but I am me.”
Chopra recently gushed about her husband, Nick Jonas, 30, calling him “the kindest, most generous, gentle, thoughtful man.”
The couple welcomed Malti, who is 15 months old, via surrogate.
For a while, their daughter was rarely seen in public, appearing on social media with an emoji masking her face.
The toddler made her first official public appearance at the Jonas Brothers’ Walk of Fame celebration in January.
