Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone is one of the most talented stars in the Hindi film industry. She acted in different movies and won the hearts of the audiences. She enjoys an immense fan following. The actress in an interview said that she changed as a person after she and her family tested positive for COVID at the same time during the second lockdown. She termed the phase as very difficult and when asked about how the pandemic changed her fundamentally as a person. She said that, “100 percent because I think lockdown one was very, very different. It was all of us trying to figure what had come upon us. And trying to understand how to navigate our lives around this new wave. Lockdown two was also very different because everyone in my family, including me had COVID at the same time.”
She also said that, “I don’t think anyone could make sense of what was going on at that time because every single person, not just in India but around the world was trying to grapple what was happening. Life after COVID changed for me because physically, I was unrecognizable completely… I think (due to) the medication I was given, the steroids that I was put on. So COVID in itself was weird, your body feels different, your mind feels different.”
She spoke about her life after COVID-19 pandemic: “I felt that when I had the illness it was still okay but after that, I needed to take two months off work because my mind wasn’t working. So, I think that phase for me was very, very difficult.”