Diljit gets emotional recalling Priyanka’s support at Met Gala

Diljit Dosanjh’s debut astatine the Met Gala 2025 was a almighty taste statement, but it was the unexpected warmth and enactment from Priyanka Chopra and a chap Sikh antheral astatine the lawsuit that near the Punjabi singer-actor profoundly moved.

Diljit precocious recalled however being surrounded by “his ain people” during specified a high-profile lawsuit meant the satellite to him.“I hadn’t been to a enactment successful a agelong time... and I was alone”Diljit shared that attending the Met Gala unsocial was intimidating, particularly since it was his archetypal large nationalist lawsuit successful a agelong time. “When I went to my table, determination was besides a Sardar lad there. He helped maine a batch due to the fact that I didn’t cognize anyone,” helium told BBC Asian Network.

“The array I was astatine wasn’t his, but helium inactive came implicit and said, ‘Paaji, immoderate you need—tea, water—I’ll get it for you.’”The young man, who was moving astatine the event, made Diljit consciousness instantly astatine home. “Seeing a chap Sardar determination made maine adjacent happier... A big, large convey you to him,” helium added.Priyanka Chopra’s comforting words near Diljit emotionalAnother peculiar infinitesimal came erstwhile Priyanka Chopra, a chap Indian and planetary icon, approached him with kindness and reassurance.

“‘Diljit, I’m sitting close here. If you request thing astatine all, conscionable telephone PC, and I’ll beryllium determination successful a flash,’ she told me,” helium revealed. “When your ain radical are astir and they enactment you, it genuinely touches your heart. That infinitesimal truly moved me.”

“It wasn’t astir maine going there—it was astir Punjab going there”Diljit turned heads with his Met Gala look, designed by Prabal Gurung, which celebrated Punjabi heritage. He wore a accepted turban, kurta, and tehmat, adorned with intricate jewels reminiscent of Maharaja Bhupinder Singh, on with the Punjab emblem and Gurmukhi publication connected his back.“I cried erstwhile I thought of my look... It wasn’t important that I spell there; it was important that Punjab goes there, that the turban goes there,” helium said. “That thought unsocial made maine cry.”Always assured yet grounded, Diljit added with a smile, “I knew it, erstwhile I spell there, nary 1 volition person eyes connected anyone else. Even if they amusement maine less, erstwhile I go, nary 1 other volition beryllium visible.”