Aamir Khan‘s daughter Ira Khan, who had opened up about struggling from depression, has shared another video talking about her experiences. She shared an IGTV video talking about her struggle with depression and addressed her “privilege”, as she spoke about her growing up years. She also mentioned that her parents, Aamir Khan and Reena Dutta’s ‘amicable separation’ did not traumatise her.
In the video, Ira revealed that she was sexually abused at the age of 14 and that her parents had helped her through the difficult phase. She said, “When I was 14, I was sexually abused. That was a slightly odd situation in the sense I didn’t know whether the person knew what they were doing. I sort of knew them. It wasn’t happening every day.”
She added saying that it took about a year for her to understand that the person knew what they were doing and she immediately emailed her parents and got herself out of the situation. She further added on that she wasn’t scared of her past experiences.
“I wasn’t scared. I felt like this wasn’t happening to me anymore and it is over. I moved on and let it 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.” Ira said in the video.
While speaking on her parents’ divorce, she said, ” When I was young, my parents got divorced. But that didn’t seem like something that would traumatise me because my parents’ divorce was amicable. They are friends, the whole family is still friends. We are not a broken family by any means. 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 to hear about your parents’ divorce, I would be like ‘What are you talking about? It is not a bad thing. Another privilege I didn’t realise. It could be something that could scar you. It didn’t scar me.”
Check out Ira’s full video below:
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