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‘I Was Abused At 14’: Ira Khan, Aamir Khan’s Daughter, Opens Up About Her Struggle

by IForHer Team
November 3, 2020

It is never easy to open up about your struggle when you are under constant media attention and judgments. But there are few courageous souls, who rather than be scared of judgments, come forward to talk about their struggle to help others. One such soul is Ira Khan.

Ira Khan, daughter of Aamir Khan, has recently spoken about multiple challenges that our society refuses to talk about. From mental depression to sexual abuse, Ira Khan has spoken about her struggle that many like to shy away.

After sharing a video about how she is clinically depressed, Aamir Khan’s daughter Ira Khan has now opened up on the incident which triggered the emotion inside of her. This courageous soul shared how she was abused at the age of 14 by someone she knew. Like many young kids, she also struggled to understand what abuse is. It took her a year to understand what she was going through. Soon after the realization, she reached out to her parents, Aamir Khan and Reena Dutta, for help.

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Image Courtesy: Instagram/@khan.ira

Ira spoke about the abuse by someone she ‘kind of knew’.

“When I was 14, I was sexually abused. That was a slightly odd situation in the sense that I didn’t know whether the person knew what they were doing. I sort of knew them. It wasn’t happening every day. It took me about a year to be sure that they knew what they were doing,” she was heard saying in the video.

Khan further shared how she got out of the situation by seeking help from her parents.

“I immediately wrote my parents an email and got myself out of that situation. Once I was out of situation, I didn’t feel bad anymore. I wasn’t scared. I felt like this wasn’t happening to me anymore, and it is over. I moved on and let go,” she said.

In her video, Ira also spoke about her parents’ divorce – Aamir and his ex-wife Reena Dutta. Sharing how every divorce doesn’t mean a broken family, she mentioned:

“When I was small, my parents got divorced. But that didn’t seem like something that would traumatise me because my parents’ divorce was amicable. They are friends, the whole family is still friends. We are not a broken family by any means,” she said. 

Ira added in her video that even the amicable divorce was a privilege she had.

“My parents were very good about being parents to Junaid and me, even after divorce. And when people would say ‘Oh I am so sorry to hear about your parents’ divorce, I would be like (shrugs) ‘What are you talking about? It is not a bad thing. Another privilege I didn’t realise. It could be something that could scar you. It didn’t scar me. I don’t remember most of it but I didn’t feel like my parents’ divorce is something that could bother me. So that can’t be the reason why I am feeling so sad.”

Here’s the video, where Ira shared her depression struggle, coping up with parents’ divorce, and being sexually abuse:

 
 
 
 
 
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HINDI VERSION – LINK IN BIO. I never spoke to anyone about anything because I assumed that my privilege meant I should handle my stuff on my own, or if there was something bigger, it would make people need a better answer than “I don’t know.” It made me feel like I needed a better answer and until I had that answer, my feelings weren’t something I should bother anyone else with. No problem was big enough to ponder too long about. What would anyone do? I had everything. What would anyone say? I had said it all. I still think there’s a small part of me that thinks I’m making all this up, that I have nothing to feel bad about, that I’m not trying hard enough, that maybe I’m over reacting. Old habits die hard. It takes me feeling my worst to make myself believe that it’s bad enough to take seriously. And no matter how many things I have, how nice to me people are because of my dad, how nice to me people are because they love and care about me… if I feel a certain way, a certain not nice way, then how much can rationally trying to explain these things to myself do? Shouldn’t I instead get up and try and fix things? And if I can’t do that for myself? Shouldn’t I ask for help? . . . #mentalhealth #privilege #depression #repression #divorce #sexualabuse #letstalk #betterlatethannever #letitout #depressionhelp #askforhelp

A post shared by Ira Khan (@khan.ira) on Oct 31, 2020 at 10:02pm PDT

At IFORHER, we are in awe of Ira’s courage to come forward to share her struggle with others. In a society where many are told to suffer in silence, we need more courageous souls like Ira! We wish Ira all the strength and hope she would soon be able to overcome her struggle!

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