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Preity Zinta clarifies stance after sparking outrage on #MeToo comments

During one of her recently aired interviews, Preity Zinta began to express her views about the social movement on a comprehensible note saying it is “important that women use it for the right thing because there are men and women who would use the position of their power for their advantage.”

By Web Desk
November 19, 2018

Bollywood actor Preity Zina after giving her two cents on the #MeToo movement has left social media ablaze with users mystified at the ‘ignorance’ the actor has spewed regarding the sensitive topic.

During one of her recently aired interviews, the 43-year-old actor began to express her views about the social movement on a comprehensible note saying it is “important that women use it for the right thing because there are men and women who would use the position of their power for their advantage.”

She went on saying: “There are small percentage of women that are using it, and they’re diluting the movement but there are also women who have gone through all these and we have heard so many stories in the industry.”

The Veer-Zara actor’s stance soon evolved into something ‘problematic’ after she was asked whether she has had akin experiences in the industry, to which she responded with a chuckle: “No, I haven’t, I wish I had. At least, then, I would have had an answer to tell you.”

“There is nothing you can do to change the world and the only thing you can do is to change yourself,” she stated.

Moreover she went on to add: “So if you go there, saying ‘I’ll do anything’, then you will be stupid to ask me not to do anything. But if I am coming here and saying that I am going to work really hard, I will do anything to work hard and I have no other nonsense to entertain, you will not (face anything)… If you feel that I am good at what I am doing, you are going to be like ‘theek hai (okay), you work.’ And I am a walking example of that. So I don’t believe any of the other things people have to say.”

Following the outrage that was sparked online after her statements, Zinta took to Twitter and clarified: “Really sad to see how the interview is edited to trivialise and be insensitive. Not everything is traction and as someone being interviewed, I expected decency and maturity from a journalist. I did 25 interviews that day and only yours turned out edited like this.”

“I’m really surprised and upset that journalists like Faridoon take an interview and edit it to sound controversial for better traction. If I said “I wish someone had bothered me” – it meant I would have probable beaten them up if they had. Interview is taken out of context,” she went on to add.