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#MeToo: Preity Zinta apologises for hurting sentiments

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Actor Preity Zinta , who has been receiving backlash for her views on # MeToo movement , released her statement on the movement and aplogised for unintentionally hurting sentiments of people. In her statement, the 'Kal Ho Naa Ho' star said, "I am a huge supporter of the movement and its unfortunate that some of my comments were taken out of context. I recognise that everyone is in a position to fight back and I don't want to marginalise the women that have been abused." Referring to her own # MeToo experience , Preity said that it also happened to her and she reacted to it strongly. "My reason for saying this 'I wish something like this would have happened to me, I would have reacted to it and much layer, when it did happen, I did react and the whole world saw it," she stated. The #MeToo movement, which began in Hollywood more than a year ago, gathered steam in India after actor Tanushree Dutta accused co-star Nana Patekar of alleg

#MeToo interview taken out of context: Preity Zinta

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Actor Preity Zinta , who has been receiving backlash for her views on # MeToo movement , has said she is "surprised and upset" that her recent comments have been taken out of context. In a recent interview, the ' Kal Ho Naa Ho ' star was asked if she had ever personally experienced any sort of harassment, to which she reportedly said, "No, I haven't, I wish I had. (laughs) Atleast, then, I would have had an answer to tell you. No and that's what I am saying that this is very relevant question because people treat you the way you want to be treated." A 'disappointed' Preity tweeted on Monday to clear her stance and claimed that the interview was edited "to sound controversial for better traction." She also slammed the journalist for doing so. "Really sad to see how the interview is edited to trivialise and be insensitive. Not everything is traction & as someone being interviewed I expected decency & matu