Social media content creator-turned-actress Kusha Kapil shared a cryptic post days after she made headlines for a roast featuring Samay Raina. The ‘Thank You For Coming’ star took to her Instagram Stories and shared a post about people trying to ‘disempower’ a person. Although she did not name the person in discussion, she hinted that she is not going to store their negativity.
“When someone’s trying to disempower you, it’s their garbage. It’s not yours to store. Let it slide off you,” Kusha wrote. She shared the post with the song ‘Move’, by Curtis Mayfield. Check out her post below:
For the unversed, comedian Samay Raina took potshots at her and her divorce from Zorawar Singh Ahluwalia on the Pretty Good Roast Show. Samay made several comments about the actress’ marriage, divorce and sex life, some of which had to be censored. Although Kusha took the roast like a sport on the episode, she later clarified that she wasn’t aware about the jokes.
“Friends, a recent roast I was a part of has led a lot of my female and queer followers to question why did I sit through something that could have been completely avoided and WITH GOOD REASON. Here’s my two cents: It was done in good faith and for a friend. Nobody has been paid (neither comics nor guests) for it so the argument that people are ‘being paid big fat cheques to hear their insults’ is baseless,” she wrote on her YouTube community notes.
“Jokes weren’t shared beforehand (as it’s done in all roast formats in the West) so I had no idea what was in store for me. Maybe I should have asked for a script and known better but since friends were involved I didn’t. Rookie mistake. While I endured some of the really raspy jokes in front of a live audience and technicians, I absolutely was not okay for it to play for millions of people since some jokes straight-up dehumanised me. It was shockingly unkind,” she added.
Kusha said her episode was the first one to be shot, and was shot in January. Everyone involved had their share of learnings after the episode was shot. “Last six months since the episode was shot, I have been a part of various calls and negotiations for every word, every joke, every slur (literal begging has happened). If I hadn’t let the episode go live, I would have been called a coward and a crybaby and a different kind of trolling would have ensued,” she said. She called the incident as a ‘huge learning’ and has decided she will not sit on such roasts anymore.
Kusha and Zorawar Singh Ahluwalia separated last year. They issued a statement about their split on Instagram.
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