Sharmila Tagore shared her emotions and coping mechanism regarding Saif Ali Khan's separation from his first wife in this episode of Koffee With Karan Season 8. Disney+ Hotstar
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00:00We felt doubly deprived, you know, to lose Amrita and lose the two kids.
00:05No breakup is easy.
00:07But I think right now, touch wood, it's a happy space.
00:12Not everything is a script written by Karan Johar, unfortunately.
00:16Simple and sorted she is.
00:30Everyone's made an effort, everyone's been gracious, at least my children have.
00:42Even my ex-wife has been very nice, dressing Sara and sending her to our wedding that Karina
00:47and I had.
00:49So things like that, you make an effort, you try and work out.
00:52Not everything is a script written by Karan Johar, unfortunately.
00:56You know, it's got slightly different ways of getting there.
01:00But I think right now, touch wood, it's a happy space with the kids.
01:05And we're always there to communicate with each other and be mature about it with the
01:09children, who are not even children anymore.
01:11But Sharmila ji, when there was the separation going, I remember it very clearly.
01:15But also with the separation, I'd just like to say the first person I spoke to before
01:20the separation was my mother, who took a deep breath and there was another pause on the
01:24phone and said, I'm with you if that's what you want.
01:28And that helped a lot.
01:30Yes.
01:31And I'm so happy because, you know, when you're together for such a long time and you have
01:35two lovely children, then no breakup is easy.
01:41And then if it's not harmonious, I mean, I know it's difficult to have harmony at that
01:46stage, everybody is hurt.
01:48So that stage was not nice.
01:51But I tried, yes.
01:54I was, but that's water under the bridge.
01:57But, you know, she needed time to cool down.
01:59Of course.
02:00And, you know, they worked it out together.
02:02Yes.
02:03It's not just staying away, there are so many other things involved.
02:08It wasn't a happy time for us because Ibrahim was just three and we were very, very fond
02:13of the children and especially Tiger was really fond of Ibrahim.
02:17And he would say, well, that's a good lad, you know.
02:20And he didn't get that time.
02:22Yes.
02:23So we felt doubly deprived, you know, to lose Amrita and lose the two kids.
02:29And so it's just not him.
02:31We also had to adjust to all that.
02:34But did you feel like the second time around when Kareena is also a movie star, that you
02:38had invested so many emotions in his first wife, how it is to readjust and to recalibrate
02:44with a new person completely?
02:45Well, there was a little gap between.
02:47And Kareena, I had known earlier, known earlier meaning I'd met her and she's always been
02:51very, very nice to me.
02:53She's just lovely.
02:54She is what she is, you know.
02:56She was with us when Tiger was ill.
02:58She was with us when Tiger passed away.
03:01Yeah.
03:02You know.
03:03And you got married subsequently, right after that.
03:06Yes.
03:07Yes.
03:08But somehow, I mean, just as a separate, you know, not to compare or anything like that,
03:11but...
03:12Because I must say what Kareena said.
03:13Yes.
03:14So, you know, I had friends over, lots of people from Delhi.
03:21And these two came and, you know, sitting there.
03:25And I casually said that what's happening and all that.
03:28I said, but you know, when Saif woke up in the morning, he told me this, giving the impression
03:33that they're living together.
03:35Okay.
03:36And this is Delhi and they're my friends of that age.
03:38Yes.
03:39You know, I was just thinking how the world has changed.
03:42I mean, when I was living with Tiger, when I was not married, I would not have said to
03:47a room full of people that I'm living with him.
03:50Yeah.
03:51It would have been a deep, dark secret.
03:52Yes.
03:53I mean, maybe everybody would have known.
03:54Yeah.
03:55But I would have...
03:56You wouldn't have said it.
03:57And she said it so naturally.
03:59And so I sort of...
04:00Like it was like...
04:01You know, even when I think about it, I just sort of laugh that how simple and sorted she
04:07is.
04:08Yeah.
04:09She's so direct.
04:10I will answer.
04:11If I want something, the answer will come.
04:13He will take at least five days.
04:15Yeah.