Was Sexually Abused When I Was 14: Aamir Khan’s Daughter Ira

“I wasn’t scared. I felt like this wasn’t happening to me anymore and it is over. I moved on and let go. But it was again not something that has scarred me for life and something that could be making me feel as bad as I was feeling when I was 18-20 years old,” she added. Ira Khan said even her parents’ divorce didn’t “traumatise” her as it was amicable. Aamir Khan and Dutta separated in 2002 after being married for 16 years. The former couple are also parents to son Junaid Khan.

Ira Khan said they are not a “broken family” and everyone is friends with each other. “My parents were very good about being parents to Junaid and me even after divorce and when people would say ‘oh I am so sorry that your parents got divorced’, I would be like why? It’s not a bad thing.” Ira Khan said divorce of one’s parents could be damaging for children but it wasn’t something that scarred her. “I remember most of it, but it felt like my parents’ divorce didn’t bother me. So, that can’t be a reason why I was feeling so sad.” Ira Khan said she kept wondering why was she feeling depressed despite being fairly privileged.

She said when she felt suffocated or cried, she didn’t reach out to her closed ones as she did nto want to burden them. “(I thought) It’s not like anyone can help me through this because there’s no reason for me to feel like this, because nothing bad has happened to me. I shouldn’t feel like this. I don’t have any reason to feel like this. “And so my own sense of privilege, my own sense of feeling that I had to have a good enough reason to feel like this made me not talk to anyone,” she added.