Seema Sajdeh recalls feeling ‘small, dispensable’ at family court during divorce with Sohail Khan: ‘Something died within me’ | Bollywood News
Seema Sajdeh, ex-wife of Sohail Khan, and Avantika Malik, ex-wife of Imran Khan, may have been divorced for a few years now, but the trauma of the legal process continues to haunt them. As if the emotional and logical toll isn’t enough, the two celebrities confessed that visiting the family court is another pain.
“The way they call your name like you’re at a railway station. They’re yelling your name and people are looking. You feel so small, insignificant, unimportant, dispensable! I remember just felt like, ‘Is this what this is all about? Is this what it comes down to,’” said Seema. “And when he (the judge) says, ‘Granted,’ I felt something died within me,” she added.
In the same interview with Janice Sequeira, Avantika echoed the experience she went at the family court. “The last time I went, I remember telling my lawyer, ‘If I ever think oh, it’s a good idea to get married again, I need to remember this moment in this family court,’” added Avantika.
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Seema, a fashion designer, married actor-filmmaker Sohail Khan in 1998 after calling off her engagement with businessman Vikram Ahuja. They had two sons — Nirvan and Yohan. Seema has been a recurring face on Netflix India’s reality show The Fabulous Lives of Bollywood Lives. She and Sohail got divorced between season 1 and 2. In season 3, it was revealed that Vikram is back in her life as a boyfriend.
Seema threw more light on her divorce in the interview. “The deal-breaker actually is to see how the two of you are going through life. Life is short, live it and be happy. Laughter is the best medicine, and the day you stop laughing together, it’s over. You should be able to reach a point where you like that person again. You shouldn’t hate that person… You tend to get so complacent in a marriage. At that time if you’d asked me, I would’ve blamed everything on him,” she said.
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Meanwhile, Avantika, a mixolog, married her longtime boyfriend and actor Imran Khan in 2011. They had a daughter, Imara, in 2014. However, they parted ways in 2019. “It’s just two people growing apart, it’s not the worst thing in the world. I would feel that if my marriage broke, I would die. I felt that I would not survive one day without this guy. I was convinced that I will die. The day we decided that this is it, I wept like there had been a death in the immediate family. I was petrified, because I was also not earning at that time. I’m aware that I come from a lot of privilege and that I will not be on the road,” Avantika said in the interview.
