Naga Chaitanya on divorce rumours with Samantha Akkineni: ‘Initially, it was a little painful’

Love Story actor Naga Chaitanya has been busy with the promotions of his upcoming movie however the rumours about his private life have been doing the rounds for the previous few days now. When his spouse, actor Samantha Akkineni, modified her identify of her social media handles, it led many to take a position that the couple was heading in direction of divorce. In a latest interview with Film Companion South, Chaitanya was requested if the gossip about his private life was hurtful to him, to which he mentioned, “Initially, yes, it was a little painful. I was like ‘why is entertainment heading this way?’ But after that, what I’ve learned is that in today’s age, news replaces news.”
He added, “It doesn’t stay in people’s minds for too long. The actual news, the news that matters will stay. But the superficial news, the news that is used to create TRPs, is forgotten. Once I made this observation, it stopped affecting me.”

He additionally revealed that he’s not an excessive amount of into social media and doesn’t spend a lot time on Instagram and Twitter. The Majili actor revealed that he used to spend so much of time on social media till a few years in the past however stopped after the pandemic. “I was very influenced by social media, maybe a year or two years ago but after the pandemic, I don’t know something evolved in me or something took me to this direction where I sort of cut off from social media completely,” he mentioned.
Chaitanya was additionally very clear about the truth that he likes to maintain his private {and professional} life separate as that is one thing that he realized from his mother and father at a really younger age. “I think from a very early time in my career, I sort of kept my personal life personal and my professional life professional. I never mixed the both. I’ve always had this habit that I learned from my parents as I was growing up, I always noticed once they came home, they never spoke about work. And when they went to work, their personal life was never diluting into work. It was a very nice balance that they maintained, which I always observed,” he mentioned.
A number of days in the past, Samantha was requested in regards to the divorce rumours as she was visiting a temple and the video from the incident went viral on-line. Snapping on the individual, she mentioned, “I have come to a temple, don’t you have any sense?” whereas pointing at her head.