Yeh Hai Mohabbatein’s Divyanka Tripathi Recalls Facing Casting Couch, Has Word Of Advice For Aspiring Actors

Divyanka
Tripathi
poured
out
her
heart
and
recalled
a
time
when
had
no
money
to
pay
her
bills
in
a
recent
interview.
The

Yeh
Hai
Mohabbatein
actress
voiced
her
opinions
on
facing
the
casting
couch
whilst
mentioning
that
there
were
people
who
tried
to
make
her
believe
that
the
casting
couch
is
quite
a
common
thing
and
that
everyone
is
doing
it
in
the
industry.

She
was
quoted
as
Bollywood
Bubble
as
saying,
“You
finish
a
show,
and
then
your
struggle
starts
again.
There
was
a
time
when
there
was
no
money.
I
had
to
pay
my
bills,
EMIs,
etc.
There
was
a
lot
of
pressure.
Then
an
offer
comes,
‘You
have
to
be
with
this
director
and
you’ll
get
a
big
break’.
But
why
me?
I
was
told
that
‘you
are
really
intellectual,
this,
that.’
Selling
it
off
like
my
life
will
be
made
just
by
that
and
everyone
is
doing
it.”

Divyanka,
who
first
rose
to
fame
with
her
show

Banoo
Main
Teri
Dulhan,
added
that
she
always
believed
in
her
talent
and
was
quite
confident
about
bagging
a
project
on
her
capabilities
and
not
by
‘being
with
a
director.’

Divyanka
Tripathi
Schools
User
Who
Called
Her
Out
For
Indian
Mosquitoes
Remark;
Says
Stop
Being
Serious

Addressing
aspiring
actors,
she
further
asserted,
“This
is
before
the
#MeToo
movement.
People
who
make
such
offers,
and
will
convince
you
in
such
a
way
that
everyone
in
the
industry
is
doing
it.
This
is
how
they
lure
you
that
if
you
don’t
do
it
then
you
will
stay
behind.
Nothing
can
happen
in
your
career.
But
I
would
have
a
lot
of
fun
because
I
knew
this
was
all
rubbish.
I
had
seen
it
in
the
beginning;
I
had
got
my
first
job
based
on
my
talent.
So
if
I
got
my
first
job
based
on
my
talent,
so
the
next
will
also
be
the
same.”

Divyanka
Tripathi
Speaks
Up
Against
Body
Shaming,
Says
One
Does
Not
Need
To
Be
‘Size
Zero’

On
the
professional
front,
Divyanka
recently
emerged
as
the
runner-up
on
Rohit
Shetty’s
stunt-based
reality
show

Khatron
Ke
Khiladi
11.