Aamir Khan’s Daughter Ira Opens Up About Being Sexually Abused

Aamir Khan’s daughter Ira Khan has revealed that she was sexually abused as a teenager by someone she sort of knew. She revealed this about a month after she revealed that she has been clinically depressed for more than four years.

In a video posted on Instagram, the theatre director said that it took her about a year t understand and make sense of it. Following this she confided in her father and mother Reena Dutta.

‘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 is what they were doing. I immediately wrote my parents an email and got myself out of the situation’, Ira Khan said this in a clip on Sunday.

She said once she was out of that situation, she didn’t feel bad anymore, but she would often beat herself up and feel silly that she let the abuse happen. ‘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 could be making me feel as bad as I was feeling when I was 18-20 years old,’ she added.

Ira Khan said even her parents’ divorce didn’t traumatise her as it was amicable. She said when she felt suffocated or cried; she didn’t reach out to her closed ones as she didn’t want to burden them.

‘It’s not like anyone can help me through this because there is no reason for me to feel like this, because nothing bad has happened to me. I shouldn’t feel like this. I don’t have any reason to feel like this. And so my own sense of privilege, my own sense of feeling that I had to have a good enough reason to feel like this made me not talk to anyone,’ she said.