US comedian Rosie O'Donnell has issued a public apology to Priyanka Chopra Jonas for referring to her as 'Deepak Chopra's daughter' in an awkward meeting with her in Malibu. Rosie took to Instagram to share two videos in which she revealed what happened when she ran into Priyanka and her singer husband Nick Jonas on Sunday.
“I just embarrassed myself, my son, and his girlfriend,” O’Donnell said in a video originally shared on TikTok, and later reposted on Instagram. “Seated next to us in Malibu, at Nobu, was Nick Jonas and his wife, someone Chopra, which I always assumed was Deepak Chopra’s daughter. So when I said, ‘Hi Nick Jonas, you were great in Kingdom,’ and, ‘Hi (Priyanka) I know your dad’. She goes, ‘You do? Who’s my dad?’ And I go, ‘Deepak’. And she goes, ‘No… and Chopra’s a common name’. I felt so embarrassed. Didn’t you think Nick Jonas was married to Deepak Chopra’s daughter? Am I the only one who thought that?” she said, adding, “To Nick Jonas, I apologise. And to the Chopra wife, I apologise too.”
In a follow-up video, also reposted on Instagram, she clarified that Priyanka wasn’t rude to her, “So I’m reading the comments, and people thought she was rude, she wasn’t rude, it was just awkward. I’m sure she gets sick of that. Priyanka is her name. She’s apparently a very well known actress and more famous than [Jonas]. So I’m sure it felt weird to her to begin with. Anyway, Priyanka is her name. And I just want to apologise to her and to everyone who thought it was inappropriate of me.”
Priyanka Chopra's father, Dr Ashok Chopra, died of cancer in 2013.
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