Priyanka Chopra Jonas had "beef with people" in Bollywood

Speaking on the 'Armchair Expert With Dax Shepard' podcast, Priyanka

explained: "I was being pushed into a corner in the industry.

"I had people not casting me for reasons ... I had beef with people. I was tired of the politics. I was just like, 'I need a break.'"

Priyanka signed a record deal in the US in 2011.

The actress - who is married to pop star Nick Jonas - explained that the deal opened doors for her in America.

She shared: "This music thing gave me an opportunity to go into another part of the world, not crave for the movies I wanted to get. But I was required to schmooze certain clubs and cliques of people and it would require, like, groveling and I had worked for a long time by then that I didn't feel like I wanted to do it.

"So when this music thing came, I was like f*** it. I'm gonna go to America, and Interscope was amazing. They threw the building at me."

Meanwhile, Priyanka previously acknowledged that she "can never please everyone".

The actress - who has developed a huge following on social media - has come under pressure in India over her apparent reluctance to discuss domestic issues.

Priyanka - who has more than 85 million followers on Instagram - told the BBC: "There will always be people that will say, 'You didn't say something about something,' 'You should have said something about something'. And it's just like, you can never please everyone."