
Veteran actress Sharmila Tagore opened up about Saif Ali Khan and Amrita Singh’s ugly divorce in the new episode of Karan Johar’s chat show Koffee With Karan 8. Saif Ali Khan and Amrita Singh got married in 1991 but separated in 2004. The ex-couple shares two children, Sara Ali Khan and Ibrahim Ali Khan.
Saif said, “With the separation, I just like to say, that the first person I spoke to before the separation was my mother. She took a deep breath, there was a pause on the phone, and said, ‘I am with you if that’s what you want’ and that helped a lot.”
Sharmila added, “When you are together for such a long time, and you have such lovely children, then no break up is easy. Then it is not a harmonious…I know it is difficult to have harmony at that stage, everybody is hurt…so that stage was not nice, but I tried. But what’s water under the bridge, she needed time to cool down, and they worked it out together.”
The actress continued, “It’s not just staying away, there are so many other things that are involved. It wasn’t a happy time for us because Ibrahim was just three, and we were very fond of the children. Especially, Tiger was really fond of Ibrahim, and he would say, ‘That’s a good lad’. He didn’t get that time with him. So we felt doubly deprived to lose Amrita and lose the two kids. So it’s just not him, but we also had to adjust to all that.”
Koffee With Karan 8 streams on Disney + Hotstar.