Kiran Rao expressed her delight following her split from Aamir Khan. Rao acknowledged in a recent interview that the divorce was not easy but she is glad they did it. Aamir and Kiran ended their marriage in July last year.
During an interview with Faye D’Souza, Kiran Rao said, “It’s been a very happy divorce.” She further added, “I feel relationships need to be redefined from time to time because we change as human beings as we grow. We want different things and this (divorce) is what I felt would make me happy and has made me very happy, honestly.”
She says, “I was single for ages before Aamir came along. I had my own independence which I really enjoyed spending on myself only. So I didn’t go through loneliness he just so happens to have Azad right now who does not let me get lonely at all. When most people get divorced or lose partners, loneliness is the only thing they worry about. But wherever you know I haven’t been lonely at all after divorcing him in fact both his family and mine also keep supporting me so actually everything has always been good stuff It’s been a very happy divorce.”
Nevertheless, according to Kiran it wasn’t easy for any of them to end their 15-year-old marriage. The Bollywood actor took quite some time before he could reach that point emotionally and mentally as stated by the movie director of Laapataa Ladies’. “Rao went on to add that she knew she could survive a divorce since she needed “independent, individual time to myself and my life.”
In addition, Kiran Rao also said that despite her divergence with Aamir they do not require any papers defining their relationship status.“We still love each other immensely; there’s lot of respect here; there’s lot of shared history; shared laughs; shared ideology; things like that that we look for in each other. The fact is I didn’t want to do away with it. And when I was ready to say, ‘Yeah, we don’t need the paper to say that we are married but we know what we mean to each other’ … This is a partnership which will stand the test of time even after divorce.”
