In 2022, actor Samantha Ruth Prabhu made it public that she had been diagnosed with the autoimmune disorder myositis. She took a break from acting to focus on her health and recovery.
Four years later, the actor says that she felt a ‘loss of identity’ and like she had ‘no control’ when she first heard about the diagnosis.
In an interview with THR India, Samantha was asked about facing turmoil in her life, including personal issues and health issues. Focusing on the health aspect, the actor stated that confidence is something she had to carefully build through workouts and a routine to ensure she looked and dressed a certain way. However, her diagnosis changed all that. “It’s carefully built, this confidence. But when something like a health issue happens to you, sickness really doesn’t care how confident you look. I felt such a loss of identity when that happened to me. I felt like I had no control. It took me a while that I do have control over how I respond to it.
I don’t have to fake confidence, but there are other lessons that I need to learn,” she said.
Samantha Ruth Prabhu’s life and career
They confirmed the split days ahead of their anniversary. Samantha worked with Naga Chaitanya in the 2010 Telugu film Ye Maaya Chesave and began dating him on and off. They got engaged in Hyderabad in 2017 and married in Goa later the same year. In 2021, the couple got divorced, and Samantha removed the surname ‘Akkineni’ from her social media.
