New Delhi: Saif Ali Khan was stabbed six times in the back by an intruder during a failed robbery attempt at his residence last month. The actor underwent two major surgeries, including the removal of a three-inch knife blade that was lodged dangerously close to his spine.
While well-wishers poured in with support, some questioned the authenticity of the incident. Recently, Saif revealed harrowing details of how he fought the armed attacker alone until his house help intervened. He admitted that had the intruder inflicted a more severe injury to his neck or spine, he could have been left “paralysed.”
In a conversation with The Times of India, Saif shared why his elder son, Taimur, accompanied him to the hospital instead of his wife, Kareena Kapoor. He said, “He (Taimur) was absolutely composed. He was fine. He said, ‘I’m coming with you.’ I was getting a lot of comfort just from looking at him at that time. And I didn’t want to go alone. My wife sent him knowing what he would do for me. Maybe it wasn’t… at the moment, it was the right thing to do. I felt good about it. And I also thought, if God forbid, something happens, I’d like for him to be there. And he wanted to be there also.”
While Saif and Taimur rushed to the hospital, Kareena took Jeh to her sister Karisma Kapoor’s home.
Recalling the terrifying night, Saif revealed that he and Kareena were asleep when, around 2 a.m., one of their house helps burst into their room, alarmed by an intruder demanding money in their younger son Jeh’s room. As Saif rushed to confront the situation, he found a masked man standing over Jeh’s bed, wielding what initially appeared to be two sticks, but were actually “sharp hexa blades.”
“Something took over me,” Saif recalled, describing how he instinctively grabbed the intruder and pulled him down. However, being armed, the attacker retaliated, stabbing Saif in the back and neck multiple times. “I couldn’t handle it after a while as there were two knives in action. I was praying that someone could get this guy off me at this point,” he shared. That’s when his house help, Geeta, stepped in and managed to pull the attacker away.
Saif further explained that he managed to lock the intruder inside Jeh’s room. However, the assailant escaped the same way he had entered—through the drainpipe in the kids’ bathroom. It was only after reaching the hospital that Saif realized the severity of his injuries.
Doctors informed him that a four-inch blade had penetrated his shoulder blade, reaching dangerously close to his spinal cord. He described it as a “massive stab,” revealing that the knife had even nicked the protective covering of his spinal cord, causing spinal fluid leakage and temporary numbness in his leg. “That’s how close it came—just one more millimetre, and we’d be talking paralysis,” he said.
Saif underwent an extensive six-hour surgery to treat his injuries.
