Avantika Malik admits she isn’t friends with ex-husband Imran Khan, is ‘bitter and hurt’ over divorce but won’t ‘poison’ daughter against him

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In the same interview, Avantika opened up about how fabulous Imran is as a father, and said that she would never deny their daughter a healthy relationship with him. “I know what it was like to go through life without a close intimate relationship with my father, I knew the price I paid for that, and there’s no way I would want that for my child. I want her to have an incredibly beautiful relationship with her father. I cannot negatively impact that in any way, because then I’m doing damage to her. We get caught up in our own resentments, maybe because we want to hurt the other person… If you’re going to poison your child, it’s because you are hurt and bitter. I was very clear that my emotions can’t creep into her.”

Avantika said that it took her years to get over the separation. She said that both she and Imran tried their best to make the marriage work, but hinted that she wasn’t the one who chose to end things. “I would have found it very difficult to walk away and to say this is it. It is mostly because of the kind of human being I am. I am extremely emotional. Another reason is that because my parents marriage didn’t work, I thought I always had this pressure to make mine work. I was too adamant that what was my reality as a child cannot be my reality as an adult. That fear was too deep to walk away,” she said.