Kiran Rao has finally come out to express her happiness over the separation from Aamir Khan. She revealed in an interview that while the act of separation was difficult, she was more than relieved that they had pulled it off. Aamir and Kiran declared their separation in July 2021.
“It’s been a very happy divorce,” Rao said during an interview with Faye D’Souza and added, “I feel relationships need to be redefined from time to time because we change as human beings as we grow. We need different things and this (divorce) is what I felt would make me happy and has made me very happy, honestly.”
“Before Aamir, I was single for a very long time. I did, actually. I enjoyed my independence. I was lonely, but now I have Azad, so I don’t tend to be lonely. I think loneliness is the only thing most people are a bit worried about when they get divorced or lose a partner. I haven’t felt lonely at all. In fact, I get the support of both families, his family and mine. Anyway, actually, it’s all been good stuff. It’s been a very happy divorce,” she said.
However, Kiran also confessed that ending their 15-year-long marriage wasn’t easy for either of them. The Laapataa Ladies director revealed that the Bollywood actor “took a while to get there emotionally and mentally.” Rao further expressed that she knew she would cope with the divorce because she wanted “independent, individual time to myself and my life”.
“There’s a lot of love, lot of respect, there’s a lot of shared history, shared laughs, shared ideology, there’s lots of things that we look for in each other. So, I didn’t want to lose that,” said Kiran Rao, as she concluded her statement, meaning thereby that though she and Aamir have parted ways, they didn’t need any paper to define them. “‘Yeah, we don’t need paper saying that we are married, but we know what we mean to each other’… This is a relationship which will stand the test of time despite the divorce,” she said.