Priyanka Chopra reveals film director demanded to see her underwear, causing her to quit

Priyanka Chopra is reflecting upon her time as an actress, detailing a moment where she felt her boundaries were crossed.

An India native, Chopra's career accelerated after she won the Miss World 2000 pageant. She began starring in Bollywood films, and was hired to work with a director she was unfamiliar with. "This may have been 2002 or '03," she told The Zoe Report.

"I’m undercover, I’m seducing the guy — obviously that’s what girls do when they’re undercover," she explained of her character. "But I’m seducing the guy and you have to take off one piece of clothing [at a time]. I wanted to layer up. The filmmaker was like, ‘No, I need to see her underwear. Otherwise why is anybody coming to watch this movie?’"

"He didn’t say it to me," she recalled of the heartbreaking moment. "He said it to the stylist in front of me. It was such a dehumanizing moment."

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"It was a feeling of, ‘I’m nothing else outside of how I can be used, my art is not important, what I contribute is not important,'" she remembered thinking of herself.

Chopra said she continued working for two more days, ultimately walking off the project. Supported by her late father, Chopra chose to pay back the production team all that was previously spent on filming.

"I just couldn't look at him every day," the actress, 40, said of the unnamed director.

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A representative for the actress did not immediately return Fox News Digital's request for comment.

Several years later, Chopra would eventually transition from Bollywood to Hollywood, a move she says was challenging. She is now married to musician Nick Jonas. The two share daughter Malti, 1.

"People didn’t want to take meetings with me because they thought I was a Bollywood actor and I couldn’t do mainstream American movies," she said of her pivot to the United States.

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"I had been on the cover of this [fashion] magazine six times in India and they wouldn’t take a meeting with me in America. Because they were like, ‘Oh, I don’t know what we’ll do with her.’"

Today, Chopra is one of the highest-paid Indian actresses in Hollywood. 

"I was 17 years old when I started doing this. I’ve been picked apart — my actions, decisions have been scrutinized," she said while acknowledging she created a different public and private personality for herself. 

"I’ve learned how to protect myself by building barriers and walls," she added, "[but] now that I’ve done this for long enough, the lines are blurring for me. The public person and the real person are kind of becoming the same."

"I’m more comfortable talking about myself to you than I would have been five years ago. I was a lot more guarded," Chopra admitted, "Maybe it’s maturity, maybe it’s coming into my own, finding a confidence in yourself and not seeking. I’m still figuring that out."

Bubba Wallace 'puts up with more s--- than anybody deserves,' Dale Jr says

Bubba Wallace managed to have two top 5 finishes over the weekend in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series and in the Cup Series All-Star Race as he battled through boos and an apparent hack of his radio communications. Wallace brushed it off as he focuses on the NASCAR playoffs. 

Dale Earnhardt Jr. talked about the treatment Wallace receives at racetracks. Earnhardt talked about what he saw at Darlington Raceway the week before the All-Star event at North Wilkesboro.

"I was at Darlington a couple weeks ago. We’re on this stage, and it’s the 75 greatest drivers all lined up. Outside of me, these are the greatest drivers that have been involved in the sport. All distinguished, of varying ages, everybody’s there to have this great experience. And the drivers are being introduced and walking by us, shaking our hand one after the other. And it’s this moment where everybody, you would think that it would be a moment where you’d behave," he explained on "The Dale Jr. Download."

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"And there’s this one guy at the rail, the rail of the fans that are down on the front straightaway, there’s one guy at the rail. Everybody for the most part is just cheering. There’s a couple, you know they give a couple people a hard time, Denny (Hamlin) and all that. A smattering of boos. Nothing crazy.

"But Bubba gets introduced and walks across the stage and there’s this guy right in front of me and Carl Edwards and Matt Kenseth and everyone else there, screaming at the top of his lungs, ‘Go home! Go home! Go home!’ over and over, as loud as he could.

"And it was so obnoxious. I really wanted to jump down there and go, ‘Hey, could you stop? Is this really what you want to do right in this moment? Is this how you want to behave right now in front of all these incredible people that you’re standing in front of? Richard Petty and all these legends, you’re going to be acting this way?’

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"And I thought man, that’s one day in Bubba’s life. And I was thinking, I know there’s people out there who have hated Kyle Busch and hated other drivers, and they probably have said some nasty things. But it just made me really disappointed."

As he alluded to Wallace’s alleged radio incident, Earnhardt said the No. 23 driver goes through too much.

"I will tell you man, Bubba Wallace puts up with more s--- than anybody deserves," he added.

By all accounts, Wallace is having a good season with 23XI Racing.

Wallace is 15th in points and is projected to make the playoffs if he continues his pace up. A win would definitely help his chances. The Coke 600 is this weekend and Wallace finished 14th at Charlotte last season.

He has three top fives this season and four top 10s.