The latest episode of Karan Johar’s Koffee With Karan has arrived with his ‘student’ Varun Dhawan and ‘homebound’ Janhvi Kapoor. The host, who shares a close relationship with the two actors, walked straight into the Peddi controversy involving Janhvi Kapoor , and called her “emotionally strong” to have been able to deal with so much trolling online.

Karan Johar said, “It takes a lot of strength to deal with all the internet craziness that you have been subjected to in the last one or two years. Everybody knows Janhvi Kapoor is sexy; there’s a difference between being sexy and being sexualised. So, what happened with the Peddi controversy . I know it really affected you in more ways than one because I spoke to you on the day it happened.” Janhvi interrupted by saying, “You spoke to me through that process.”

Karan further asked that there were two sections of people, the one that sympathised to the sexualistion of her character’s portrayal; and the other was, ‘Oh, but she was on that set.…