Samantha Ruth Prabhu is suffering from a rare disease of muscles called Myositis. It is an autoimmune condition.

She opened up about her health condition during a media interaction. She said she has had it for the last three months.

She said she wasn't dying anytime soon, as claimed by some media reports. Several articles claimed that she had a life threatening disease.

In an instagram post she informed her fans doctors are confident that she will make a complete recovery very soon.

Myositis is caused due to inflammation of muscles. It can be caused due to a trauma, infection or be an autoimmune disease

Samantha will be next seen in Telugu-language science fiction Yashoda and Kushi. Her appearance on Koffee With Karan was much talk about where she opened up about her divorce with Naga Chaitanya