Samantha Ruth Prabhu says her illness is not life-threatening, trashes exaggerated headlines: 'I’m not dead yet'

Samantha Ruth Prabhu has slammed publications who went overboard with exaggerated headlines about her health condition.

Actor Samantha Ruth Prabhu, who is gearing up for the release of her forthcoming Telugu thriller Yashoda, has opened up about her health condition in a promotional interview. Recalling the journey she went through battling her condition, an emotional Samantha also clarified that she’s not at a life-threatening stage and wished the media could have avoided their exaggerated reporting on her health condition.

Samantha Ruth Prabhu has clarified about her health.

On Monday, Samantha took to Instagram to share a post in which she wrote that she’s gearing up for the promotions of Yashoda. A clip from her promotional interview has surfaced on social media. She can be seen turning emotional talking about how she dealt with her health condition.

An emotional Samantha said: “As I said in my post (Instagram), some days are good, some are bad. Some days, I’ve felt even taking one more step would be difficult. But when I look back, I wonder I’ve gone through so much and have come this far. I’m here to fight.”

In the same clip, Samantha clarified she’s not at a stage where her condition is life-threatening. “I want to clear one thing. I saw a lot of articles describing my condition as life-threatening. The stage I’m in, it’s not life-threatening. At the moment, I’m not dead yet. I don’t think those headlines were very necessary,” she said.

In Yashoda, Samantha plays a surrogate mother who won’t stop at anything to protect her child. The film’s trailer was recently released and it assures that the film will be an edge-of-the-seat thriller with good scope for Samantha to flex her action skills. There’s even a brief scene where we get to see her fight a few guards with just a baton.

Besides Samantha, the film also stars Varalaxmi Sarathkumar, Unni Mukundan, Rao Ramesh, Murali Sharma, Sampath Raj, Shatru, Madhurima, Kalpika Ganesh, Divya Sripada, Priyanka Sharma and others.