In her recently released memoir, Unfinished, actor-producer Priyanka Chopra Jonas has revealed she fell into depression following her father’s death, for around five years, till she made a conscious decision to get out of it.

The actor’s father, Ashok Chopra, a physician in the Indian Army, died on June 10, 2013, after a long battle with cancer. Chopra says she used work as therapy, putting her grief and “a piece of my soul” into the sports drama, Mary Kom (2014). “Five days after dad died, the day following my father’s chautha, Mary Kom was scheduled to begin shooting, and although the film’s producer, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, offered to postpone the start date, the sense of duty and discipline I’d inherited from my father and his 27 years in the military wouldn’t allow me to accept his offer. Work was my therapy. I put all of my grief and a piece of my soul into that character,” the actor has written in the memoir, published by Penguin.