Aamir Khan’s daughter opens up about a horrific incident she faced when she was 14
Aamir Khan’s daughter Ira Khan, who was diagnosed with clinical depression over four years ago, has never shied away from talking about her mental health on social media. Ira Khan has recently shared a video on her Instagram and explained that at the age of 14 she was victimised to sexual abuse and that could have possibly contributed to her depression.
In the video, Ira Khan said, “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 and that’s what they were doing. I immediately wrote my parents an email and got myself out of that situation.I wasn’t scared. I felt like this wasn’t happening to me anymore and it is over. I moved on and let go. But it was again not something that has scarred me for life and something that could be making me feel as bad as I was feeling when I was 18-20 years old.” She added that communicating with her parents Aamir Khan and Reena Dutta, helped her get her out of the horrific situation that she was engulfed in.
Ira Khan captioned her vids ‘My privilege’ and further posted, “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.”
Speaking about how she recovered she further added, “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.”
