AceShowbiz - When she was a child, Priyanka Chopra was forced to move back to India from the U.S. due to a traumatic experience at her school. "There was this girl who was a major bully. I think she didn't like me because her boyfriend liked me, or some high school dynamic," the wife of Nick Jonas recalled in an interview with PEOPLE. "She made my life hell. She used to call me names and would push me against the locker."

"Maybe I, being on the platform that I am, can say this louder than the kid who has to get on the subway and go to school: You don't need to be afraid of who you are," she said, adding, "I don't want any kid to feel the way I felt in school. I was afraid of my bully. It made me feel like I'm less - in my skin, in my identity, in my culture." In a separate interview, the "Quantico" star that she was called "Brownie," "Curry" and "[told to] 'go back on the elephant you came on,' " when she was a kid and it hugely affected her self-esteem.