hi bbc news this is priyanka
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it was something i was afraid of
something i wanted to attempt honestly
and
for me it was very cathartic healing
almost i've had such a crazy
sort of life with you know multiple
continents that i work in
that um when i was home for six months i
had the ability to really like
dig deep and think about what i was
writing and the tone that i wanted and
what was the hardest chapter for you to
write would you say my childhood
mostly because memories are a funny
funny thing you know you don't
remember things correctly but when i was
a kid
and going to boarding school and um
you know how that felt all of that going
back so far back
into that was hardest for me
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it doesn't feel real i'm just a girl who
goes to work doing my job
it's not an easy job you know being in
the public eye
especially as a performing artist is
very hard because
it's difficult for people to bifurcate
that there's a human being and this is
an actor and they're acting and then
there's a person and you kind of become
fodder
um very often and having done it for 20
years now i've kind of made peace with
that but it's it's not easy
to do you know i'm just happy to be here
still honestly
so the rest of it always seems like you
know overwhelming to me
i mean a friendship is crucial
you've got to be able to have to be able
to spend time together and like
actually hang out and like it i think
that was the one thing that i really
admired about my husband
when i first got to know him was how
excited he would get from my
achievements or for things that i felt
like i did well or when i had a moment
or you know he's such an
amazing cheerleader and right from the
beginning and
i love that our that our partnership is
of equals and that's something that
we started out as and it's really
wonderful
to have found someone who thinks like
that
i've been here since november and i've
been in the lockdown
since november but um the uk government
allows for tv and film shoots which is
why we're here i just finished filming a
movie
and now i'm filming a tv show so the
only thing i do is i go to set and i
come back and i get set and i come back
and that's so unlike the london
experience because
i mean it's london you know go out every
night you go
to the shows and meet people and
different foods and now it's just
deliveroo
and me
you