"Mostly Sunny" charts the life of Leone, born Karenjit Kaur Vohra in Sarnia, Ontario, from her childhood in a conservative Sikh family to her shift to Los Angeles, her emergence as one of the biggest adult movie stars in the world and her subsequent mainstream movie career breakthrough in Bollywood.
Leone said she doesn't want the documentary to release in India as it is less of a film on her life and more of "somebody else's opinion".
"Its not a biopic made on my life where you can manipulate and say what you want. It is not like you are appealing to cinematic liberty. This is somebody's life. This is my life, I take it very personally," she added.
The Dilip Mehta directed documentary recently premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, which Leone didn't attend citing a family function.
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When asked about this, Leone said, "It's really simple, at the end of the day, its my personal story. I surrendered to his vision but when it got to my story, how it looks and the story that is actually told... In my view no one in this entire world has the right to say how my life should be told."
Leone, opening up about her problems with the
documentary, said she didn't want a film that would disgust people.
"If a young woman was looking for encouragement. I wanted that young woman to be able to watch it without going squeamish... There is so much material in there which was not needed, or that was shown. Now you're trying to show it to people."
The 35-year-old actress said she was honest in the documentary but its first edit, after almost "18 months and 22,000 hours of raw footage", left her "extremely disappointed."
"I had a family affair, which is absolutely true... They didn't even want to show me a cut of my film. I believe at the end of the day I have a right to watch what is going to be shown at TIFF. If the producer or the director is not showing me my own life story documentary then why should I go?
"At the end, when they finally sent me the final edit, I wasn't really interested in watching it again because I had watched it five times. They told us point blank that none of the changes we requested them to make, on my life, my story, they were ignored. "