Priyanka Chopra extends support to American gymnast Simone Biles for focusing on mental health

Priyanka Chopra Jonas/picture courtesy: AFP

The 'Fashion' star Priyanka Chopra Jonas shared one of the clips from an old interview of her YouTube show 'If I Could Tell You Just One Thing', with the US gymnast Simone Biles on social media, and the video is taking over the internet. Speaking about the video, the actress was seen in a tete-a-tete with one of the most celebrated gymnasts Simone about her career.

In the clip, Priyanka could be heard asking the 24-year-old athlete about the pressure she feels in her field, to which Simone replied, "I feel like that's the hardest part of my career. I don't want to say job, because I chose this. Always meeting people's needs, every single day, all the time, is probably the hardest thing that I go through."

Sharing the video clip on her Instagram handle, Priyanka wrote a lengthy note in the caption. Take a look.

The 'Dostana' actor further asked Simone, "When you fail, does it crush you?" Simone quipped, "Yes. I feel like if I don't meet their needs and if I failed... even at the Olympics, everybody wanted me to win six golds or this or that... I didn't meet those needs and I was really down on myself, especially after the beam. Even though I still medalled, everyone was like 'What the heck is a bronze,'" Simone replied referring to the 2016 Rio Olympics where she won four gold medals and a bronze- on the balance beam.

"Therapy needs to be normalised, it is everything. I feel like nowadays if you say you are going to therapy, nobody questions you anymore. But before if I said I was going to therapy, (people would say) 'Are you going to a cuckoo doctor?' And that's why I think therapy today is so important and it needs to be normalized," Simone concluded.

Earlier, Bollywood stars heaped praises who pulled out of the women's team event on Thursday after faltering mid-air on the first apparatus- the vault, which is her speciality. Team USA continued without her and won silver. After a medical assessment, Simone also withdrew from the individual all-around event. Last week, Simone had become the first Olympic athlete to have her own customized hashtag emoji on Twitter.

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With inputs from ANI