Sharmila Tagore BREAKS Silence on Saif Ali Khan, Amrita Singh's Divorce: 'She Needed Time to Cool'

Sharmila Tagore opened up about Saif Ali Khan and Amrita Singh’s ugly divorce in the new episode of Koffee With Karan 8. The veteran actress appeared on Karan Johar’s show with Saif to talk about Saif and the Pataudi family at length and eventually opened up about Saif and Amrita’s divorce. Sharmila said that it wasn’t a happy time for the family. She added that not only Saif but the whole family had to come to terms with losing Amrita and the kids, Sara Ali Khan and Ibrahim Ali Khan at the time.

Saif revealed that the first one to know about his decision to separate from Amrita was Sharmila. “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,” he said.

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 that’s water under the bridge, she needed time to cool down and they worked it out together.”

“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,” she added.

Saif married Amrita in October 1991 but they separated in 2004. Over the past few years, Saif has spent time with his children, Sara and Ibrahim. Today, Saif is often seen spending time with Sara and Ibrahim individually and they also join him, Kareena Kapoor, and their sons, Taimur Ali Khan and Jeh Ali Khan on big events such as birthdays, Raksha Bandhan, and Diwali.

Koffee With Karan 8 streams on Disney+ Hotstar.