Malaika Arora told parents to ‘stop reading garbage’ after her trolling upset them

Actress Malaika Arora is no stranger to trolling. In many interviews and statements throughout the years, the actress has said she has figured out how to turn a deaf ear to all the trolling and criticism she gets from random strangers on the internet. In any case, in a new interview, she uncovered that her parents did still get affected by it. It got to a point where Malaika had to talk with them and ask them to let it go.

In an interview with Pinkvilla, Malaika said, “My parents would keep saying, ‘beta someone said this or that’. And finally, I sat them down and said, ‘Enough! Stop reading this garbage. It is complete BS. Please do not focus your energies on this’. At the end of the day, they are parents and they hear something, they get upset. But once I sat them down, that was that. It never ever came up again.”

In the same interaction, Malaika also said that a lot if trolling was based in double standards since celebs in the West are applauded for wearing something while their Indian counterparts are trolled for wearing something similar. She said, “I feel people are very hypocritical. The same thing if you see on a Rihanna or JLo, you’d be like wah, wah. The same thing if you do here, people go why is she wearing that? She is a mother. Why be hypocrites? Why have double standards?”