Gill told host Nida Yasir she had been sent to Australia for higher education by her parents where she studied psychology. After her studies, she said she came back to Karachi and began working at a hospital which didn’t really pay much.

One day, after a late shift, Yashma came home to find her ageing father leaving the house at 6 a.m. When she asked where he was going, he said he was heading to work.

Seeing her father work so hard to support her inspired Gill to pursue acting as a career. She told her mother, “Mama, even if Baba gets angry, God knows my intent, I am doing this to help him.”

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While her mother was supportive, Yashma said her father didn’t speak to her for a full year, upset by the misconceptions surrounding her profession.

During Ramadan, she broke the ice by reminding him that greeting someone is religiously mandated in Islam, which began to thaw their relationship.

The matter was ultimately resolved when she took her father for Umrah. Seeing the admiration of fans and the respect shown to her work in the holy city convinced her father that she was on the right path.