Overview
- Chahar posted on X asking interviewers to stop bringing her parents into conversations and to focus on her, a plea her brother Deepak Chahar publicly backed.
- In a widely reported interview with Siddharth Kannan, she said her parents fought frequently and sometimes hit her following their arguments.
- She said her parents have lived separately for about 13 years and that close quarters during childhood heightened the impact of their disputes.
- Chahar recounted a restrictive upbringing, saying her father boycotted her until she finished Class 12, enforced short hair through Class 11, and opposed her entertainment ambitions in favor of an IPS career path.
- She disclosed living with adenomyosis that caused severe menstrual pain and repeated hospitalisations, and recalled facing eve-teasing in Suratgarh that she felt unable to report.