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    Samantha Ruth Prabhu reveals she hit an 'all-time-low' battling health problems, flops & divorce at the same time

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    ​The ‘Majili’ star is on a break currently and travelling across the globe. She was last seen in the 2023 romantic drama ‘Kushi’ opposite Vijay Deverakonda.

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    The ‘Kushi’ actress admitted that she hit an “all-time low” when she was diagnosed with myositis while undergoing a divorce and facing professional setbacks at the same time.
    In a rare moment of candour, Telugu star Samantha Ruth Prabhu reflected on her recent health struggles as well as her divorce from ‘Ye Maya Chesave’ co-star Naga Chaitanya.

    The ‘Yashoda’ actress who is currently on a hiatus, opened up about living with myositis, a rare immune condition, as well as her “failed marriage” in a candid interview with Harper’s Bazaar India. She also spoke about dealing with disappointments on the professional end as her movies failed to work magic at the box-office.

    Hitting An ‘All Time Low’

    The ‘Kushi’ actress admitted that she hit an “all-time low” when she was diagnosed with myositis while undergoing a divorce and facing professional setbacks at the same time. “When I hit an all-time low of, well, a failed marriage, and my health and work were getting affected, it was like a triple whammy; boom, boom, boom. You know, people go down for far less than what I endured for the last two years or so,” she told the magazine.

    She also revealed that she coped with the dark phase by reading stories of actors who had taken a health break and made successful comebacks.

    She also stated that being a star in India is an “incredible gift”, and it extended beyond box-office performance, awards, body shape, and fashion sense. “It’s the pain, the hardships, the lows,” she mused.

    Prabhu and Chaitanya parted ways in 2021. The duo had appeared in hit films such as ‘Ye Maya Chesave’, ‘Majili’ and ‘Autonagar Surya’. Since the divorce, Chaitanya was linked to actress Sobhita Dhulipala.

    The ‘Majili’ star is on a break currently and travelling across the globe. She was last seen in the 2023 romantic drama ‘Kushi’ opposite Vijay Deverakonda. The movie opened to mixed reviews and eventually emerged as a box-office disaster.

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