Samantha Ruth Prabhu opens up about dealing with the only toxic relationship in her life: ‘I went on a silence retreat for three days…'
has been quite open about her personal health journey and lifestyle habits. Fans and followers always shower praise on her resilience and the way she handled her health after being diagnosed with an autoimmune disease, myositis.
Samantha
has now opened up about the toxic relationship she has in her life with her mobile phone.
Samantha Ruth Prabhu about her toxic relationship with cell phone
Samantha Ruth Prabhu Breaks Toxic 'Relationship' With Her Phone: Shares How She Detoxified
During a candid conversation on her health podcast, Take 20, she reflected on a time when this habit disrupted her carefully structured daily routine and left her feeling out of control. 'I had made so many changes in my life, and I was pretty happy with the routine I had created for myself. The one thing that I couldn't control was this...
Going to the phone, this relationship with my phone, which I was starting to question again, and this false sense of importance that 'It's my work and it has to be done',' she shared.
Samantha took a bold step by enrolling in a three-day silent retreat where she disconnected entirely from her phone and all forms of communication. This digital detox allowed her mind to slow down and focus on what truly mattered.
Samantha Ruth Prabhu took a break from mobile phone
She explained, 'So I went on a silence retreat for three days without phone, with no communication, no eye contact, no reading, no writing, no stimulation of any kind.
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Your brain just comes down.'
Recently, Samantha shared an Instagram story to rebut trolls about her losing so much weight and looking thin. She added her video of doing bar pull-ups in the gym and wrote, 'Here's the deal. You don't get to call me skinny, sickly or any of that crap unless you can do 3 of these first. If you can't… Then read between the frikkin lines…'
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On the work front, Samantha was last seen in Citadel: Honey Bunny alongside
Varun Dhawan
. She also had a cameo appearance in her debut production venture, Subham. She is now gearing up for the release of Maa Inti Bangaram in Telugu and an action series Rakt Brahmand: The Bloody Kingdom.
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