Aamir Ali responds to ex-wife Sanjeeda Shaikh’s ‘men who demotivate’ remark: ‘I’ve never put anyone down and I never will’

Aamir Ali, who was married to Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar actor Sanjeeda Shaikh, responded to the latter's statement about partners who demotivate women.

Aamir Ali and Sanjeeda Shaikh tied the knot in 2012 and got divorced in 2022.

Actors and former couples, who were once television’s most loved jodi, Aamir Ali and Sanjeeda Shaikh, parted ways in 2020, followed by a legal divorce in 2021. The estranged couple, who share their daughter, Ayra Ali, have often made headlines while speaking ‘unsavoury’ things about each other and their strained relationship. After Sanjeeda Shaikh, who was recently seen in Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar, spoke about partners who are ‘demotivating‘, social media has been abuzz with speculations that she was taking a potshot at her former husband Aamir.

Now, Aamir has reacted to her statement. “Not everything that she and I say about one another is about us. We have not been together for nearly five years now. She must have gone through something like that in that period, I guess,” he told News18 Showsha in a recent interview.

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The Lootere actor also opened up about going through a low phase during their separation however, he also emphasised that he doesn’t want to discuss it in public, calling their relationship “an old story.” “Ours is an old story now which is over. I know what I went through in that separation period and what happened to me. But washing dirty linen in public is not my class. I’ve never put anyone down and I never will, especially who I have shared a relationship with,” he added

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Aamir and Sanjeeda, who first met on the sets of Kya Dil Mein Hai, dated for years before marrying in 2012. The former spouses welcomed Ayra through surrogacy. Following their divorce, Sanjeeda got their daughter’s custody.

Sanjeeda, during an appearance on Hauterrfly, had said, “There are men, and there are partners who try to demotivate you, who tell you that you can’t do anything. Or they will say you will not be able to do this. It’s better to be away from such people. There are phases in every relationship where you are happy, and then there are some when you are not, and then you take a call for your life and that’s what I did for myself because I started loving myself and I started prioritising myself and that is very, very important.”

She further added that she feels “very lucky” to have emerged from whatever she experienced in her relationship. “Maybe I felt then that I was the most depressed person, or I was very sad, or, ‘What is happening with me, what is happening with my life?’ But to overcome all of that, to think like that and to be happy with this version of myself, I am blessed,” Sanjeeda explained.

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