India, June 24 -- Actor Lakshmi Manchu spoke to the press in Hyderabad on Tuesday while promoting her upcoming show, Top Telugu Influencer, which will stream on the Aha OTT platform. She spoke about her rift with a Telugu journalist last year, revealing that not only did nobody help her during the ordeal, but she was also asked to delete the apology he eventually sent her a month later.

Lakshmi spoke to the press and said it took her a month to receive an apology after a reporter demeaned her during an interview. "It took me one month to get an apology. And when I posted that apology on Twitter, I received a call from the press association. They asked me to remove it because he was feeling bad," she said, before adding, "Nannu vanda mand...