Sunny Leone
Sunny Leone

Sunny Leone‘s cringe-worthy interview went viral moments after its release. Senior journalist Bhupendra Chaubey asked her a series of inappropriate questions and it was troubling to see just how judgmental he was of her. Thankfully, everyone, including Aamir Khan, came out in support of Sunny and it was really nice to see that as a community we are getting slightly less skirmish about sex and adult entertainers.

Sunny posted a heartfelt video on her Twitter recently thanking all her supporters and in an interview to HuffPost India, she finally broke her silence about the matter.

Here are 5 things she said…

1. On how she felt during the interview…

I am not the kind of person who would walk away from an interview. But having said that, I felt what was happening was not right at all. And I felt completely alone… and no one was helping me out. I felt upset because I never imagined this is what I may have to face.

2. On why she didn’t walk out…

But I will never back away. I will never let anyone get to me. I will never let anyone – man or woman – take me down. It was that spirit in me that made me continue with the interview. Also, if I walked away, I would prove every doubt he raised about me, everything he suggested about me and my past right. I was never going to let him do that.

3. On feeling confused…

After the English version of the interview, he wanted to the same interview once over again in Hindi. So then I excused myself and said I will not be comfortable doing it. So he asked me a couple of general questions and we were done. I was feeling so hurt already. Like, this was not right at all. I thought he was a senior journalist and why would he do this? It was very difficult for me and I was upset and scared.

4. On the overwhelming support she has received…

I realized, while watching the interview people felt exactly the way I felt while taking part in it.

5. On Aamir Khan…

It was such a sweet gesture on behalf of Aamir Khan to reach out to me. His support means a lot. Like I said in the interview, we work together, we don’t work together, I will still be a fan…

More power to you, Sunny!