Seema Sajdeh opens up on post-divorce struggles with sons: Things didn’t pan out…
Seema Sajdeh talked about her relationship with her sons following her divorce from Sohail Khan. Her elder son Nirvaan disapproved of her move to Worli, prompting her return to Bandra.
Actor Sohail Khan’s former wife, Seema Sajdeh, opened up about her relationship with her sons, Nirvaan and Yohan, after her divorce from the actor. In an episode of the recently released web series Fabulous Lives Vs Bollywood Wives, Seema said her sons “spent more time” at their father Sohail’s home in Bandra, Mumbai, after she moved to Worli.
“I feel like you being in Bandra was across the street. It was a walk across the street. We were a lot more accessible to you. You were a lot more accessible to us. We would be able to see you on a daily basis,” Nirvaan told Seema.
Seema, explaining her perspective, replied to Nirvaan, “I honestly thought that moving into this building with more kids and more people, Yohan (her younger son) would have… you know how it is, Yohan didn’t have very much to do. Here, he has got more activities to do.”
She then confessed to the camera, “So, after my divorce, I decided to move to Worli. It was a fresh start for Yohan and me. I thought it would be good for him. But things didn’t pan out the way I thought. And he decided to spend more time in Bandra.”
But Nirvaan told her that all Yohan’s friends are in Bandra and “his life is in Bandra.” To this, Seema admitted, “I know; he makes me drive to him all the time.” Nirvaan said, “Exactly, there’s no point. Ultimately, you want your friends around, your family around, your comfort.”
Seema’s close friend Maheep Kapoor reflected on the same issue in one of the episodes of Fabulous Lives Vs Bollywood Wives. She told Neelam Kothari, “She (Seema) shifted to Lower Parel; I told her not to. I said, ‘You know your friends are here, your work is here, Nirvaan has come back from America, he is across the road from you. Your child is here.’ I just don’t get the need for her to run away so far.”
Sohail Khan and Seema Sajdeh filed for divorce on May 13, 2022, after 24 years of marriage. They got married in 1998. After the divorce, Seema changed her name on social media and dropped ‘Khan’. She went back to her maiden name, Seema Kiran Sajdeh.
On the Netflix show, Seema also shared how her younger son Yohan reacted to her divorce from Sohail. “Post getting divorced, I did not think that Yohan would react the way he has reacted to me,” she told her elder son Nirvaan.
Nirvaan reasoned, “Your divorce was public. And it happened at a time when he probably didn’t even know the term ‘divorce’. So while it’s happening, he is probably learning everything. I have seen him search the definition of divorce and what it is. It hit him; it’s all very new to him.”
“Now that you have moved to Worli, it becomes very tough for us to migrate here to there. You have probably seen we don’t see you as often. We have grown up in that house. Yohan was born in that house. That house has got memories. We have got comfort in that house,” added Nirvaan. When Seema asked him what she should do, he replied, “You should come back.”
By the end of the third season of Fabulous Lives of Bollywood Wives, Seema moves back to Bandra, where she says “her soul and heart reside.” She also introduced her love interest Vikram on the show, to whom she was engaged before eloping with Sohail.
