Deepika Padukone opens up about battle with Covid-19

Actress Deepika Padukone was among the several people who contracted Covid-19 during the second wave of the pandemic last year. Padukone, along with her family including father Prakash, mother Ujjala, and sister Anisha, all tested positive in April 2021. In a recent media interaction, the actress opened up on how the illness made her “physically unrecognisable”.
Despite recovering from the virus in a few weeks, Deepika took a two-month break before resuming work. He now admits, it was because her “mind wasn’t working” and that it was a ‘very, very difficult phase” for her. Sharing how Covid-19 affected her physically, she said, “Life after Covid changed for me because physically, I was unrecognizable completely… I think the (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.”
Deepika added that it wasn’t that the illness affected her, it was the after-effects that forced her to go on a mini-sabbatical of sorts. She added, “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. The phase for me was very, very difficult.”
On the work front, Deepika is currently gearing up for her next release ‘Gehraiyaan’ which is directed by Shakun Batra. The film also stars Siddhant Chaturvedi, Ananya Panday, and Dhairya Karwa, and is set to release on Amazon Prime Video on February 11.