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Priyanka Chopra Jonasis giving new insight into her relationship with her husbandNick Jonas.
The actress, 40, took a walk down memory lane on the latest episode of theArmchair Expertpodcast, detailing the couple’s first moments together beforetying the knot in 2018.
“I was in a tumultuous relationship at that time. This is ‘16. We had common friends who didn’t want me to be in my relationship and were like, ‘Oh, he’s single too.’ He’s really not with that girl, but he is. It was complicated on both our ends,” confessed Priyanka.
Without revealing the name of her ex, she shares that the relationship was near its end when Nick, 30, would go on to send Priyanka a message through Twitter in 2016, adding that she “didn’t want to engage as much at the time.”
Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Nick Jonas with daughter Malti.Priyanka Chopra/Instagram
While the two would not go on tomeet in personuntil a week beforeattending the 2017 Met Gala togetheras Ralph Lauren’s guests, having kept in touch only through “random texts,” Priyanka shared that she still had reservations, explaining that some of her exes were “a little bit narcissistic.”
“I kept making the same mistakes,” she said. “A lot of the pattern in my relationships was me feeling gaslit because I gave that kind of power to the people that I was with, where I was like, ‘You come first,'” sharing that she got “so much clarity on what I needed,” before her relationship with Nick.
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“This is a happy time for all. Nick and Priyanka are definitely ready for this new challenge in their lives. It is something they have both wanted,” another insider said. “Now is their time, and they could not be more ready to raise a child.”
source: people.com
