There is nothing gross about my period blood: Kangana Ranaut

Actress Kangana Ranaut has been subjected to a lot of mud-slinging over the past few weeks, what with one ex-lover sending her legal notices and the other calling her names. But, the stubborn woman says that name calling doesn't scare her.

In a current interview, Adhyayan Suman had claimed that Kangana used to perform black magic, add her menstrual blood to his food and mentally and physical abuse her and Kangana tells that though such statements are a little disturbing for her, she cares a damn.

In a current interview, to a leading news channel the actress told, ''The recent turn of events have been extremely alarming for me though I have been raised in an environment, which is quite misogynistic, let's be frank there's no denying that we are an extremely sexist country. So even for me the recent turn of events were quite unsettling,''

''It doesn't upset me when people call me names, talk about my period blood but let's not call it gross as there is nothing gross about period blood, it's my ability to reproduce. Calling it gross give women a sort of complex, women, who will tomorrow lead our country, to believe that there is something gross about being a woman. If there is nothing gross about a man's body fluid then there is nothing mysterious or evil about a woman's menstrual blood,'' she further said.

Talking about being called a witch, she told, ''As far as all this name calling is concerned, we as women have defended ourselves for way too long. These are thousand years old weapons that are still being used against women. When they are jealous of a woman's success the first thing she becomes is a Dayan, then she goes on to become a whore, then she goes on to become a slut and if she is crazily successful she becomes a psychopath. If she is sexually active she becomes a whore. All this is really outdated.''

''It doesn't upset me because I'm an artist and I have very closely researched on people who deal with mental illness and I don't find anything degrading about fighting a mental illness. A certain section of the media is trying to suggest that to humiliate a woman you can use mental illness. It won't work because I have played a schizophrenic, I have played a bipolar patient on screen and thus, I don't see anything humiliating when they call me a psychopath, a bitch or a whore. I have played a whore on screen as well and my interaction with prostitutes has made me extremely empathetic towards them. Like any other artiste I'm smitten with witches, demons and fairies or mysticism or romanticism and it doesn't scare me,'' told the National Award-winner.