Sonam Kapoor has invited major international flak from a leading fashion Instagram handle, Diet Prada, for showing the world what privilege looks like. Diet Prada (with a follower count of almost two million) called out various celebrities and influencers who attended the MDL Beast Festival in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, ignoring the country’s human rights violations. Quoting a United Nations report that called Saudi Arabia “the world’s worst humanitarian crisis”, Diet Prada barefaced celebrities by saying they were “cashing big fat checks in exchange for #content creation (also known as propaganda) to rehabilitate the image of Saudi Arabia, a country said to be causing ‘the world’s worst humanitarian crisis’, according to the United Nations. According to anonymous sources, six-figure sums were paid for attendance and geo-tagged posts.”
Sonam decided to jump into the matter by sharing Diet Prada’s post, saying, “Let’s just agree to disagree. Let’s appreciate that the whole world is a shithole right now and any positive step forward is something that I want to celebrate. I was treated with immense respect and love as a hindu brown female actor (sic).”
Diet Prada replied by tagging her in several posts showing videos of molestation of women at the festival and their online complaints, each one sharing their horror stories of being groped and having their underwear ripped off their bodies. “@sonamkapoor, here is a brown girl at MDLBeast who wasn’t’ “treated with immense respect” as you were in the VIP section,” Diet Prada wrote.
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While several fans of Sonam are coming out in support of her, there are many who are slamming the actress for her attendance.
(Source: Instagram)
