Zeenat Aman calls marrying Mazhar Khan a mistake, read about his affair while pregnant with first child: ‘I was close to nervous breakdown’

However, she soon realised that she had made a mistake with the marriage. In an earlier interview with Simi Garewal, Zeenat said she decided to bear with the marriage . “The first year of marriage, I realised I had made a mistake but since I had made the decision against everybody’s will, I decided to make it work. I’m not necessarily saying that it was the best thing for him either. It was a difficult time since the first year because I was pregnant with my first child and Mazhar was not there. There was a big article in Stardust magazine at that time about the woman that Mazhar was seeing. It’s reality.”

Mazhar was an actor-producer who is known for films such as Shaan and Bombay Fantasy. He found fame with his character Abdul in Shaan. “As soon as my son was born, I wanted out and we discussed it but I thought my child deserved a chance and I stayed. But I didn’t just stay, I did everything possible to make it work. I thought about getting back to work when my younger son was 5 years old but right before that Mazhar fell grievously ill. I spent 5 years battling for his health and his life and they were very difficult years,” she said. Mazhar’s ill-health improved with time but he had become addicted to prescription drugs and died of kidney failure eventually.

Talking about how she did everything to ensure Mazhar became better, Zeenat said, “I tried everything under the sun. We were in and out of every hospital in Mumbai. I learned how to give injections, to do dressing. He was living with a bag outside his body for 18 months, I learned how to change that bag. I did everything there was to do. I flew overseas and found the best doctor. When that thing was over and the problem was sorted, it had taken a toll on me. I was very close to a nervous breakdown.”

It was his drug addiction that forced Zeenat to maintain distance. “He had stopped helping himself and was inflicting further damage on himself and I couldn’t stay there and watch him do that. He was taking seven painkillers a day. At the end, his kidneys did pack up and this was after I had opted out. When I left, I still cared. I have no guilt because I am sure 99 percent women wouldn’t have lasted as long and as honestly as I did.”

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