Farhan Akhtar reveals how his parents' divorce impacted him: 'It was difficult'

Farhan Akhtar recently opened up about the difficult phases of his life. The actor explained how his parents' divorce affected him when he was young. He also candidly spoke about his separation from his ex-wife Adhuna Bhabani, calling the situation "difficult".

In a conversation with Faye D'Souza for her YouTube channel, Farhan said, "I had been through having divorced parents when I was a kid. I know what it felt like, and there was a huge part of me that was like, I cannot do this to my kids."

Talking about why he decided to part ways with his ex-wife after 16 years of marriage, he added, "I felt that it came to a place that if Adhuna and myself spoke to them openly and honestly, and explained to them why we are taking this kind of step, that it doesn't have anything to do with them. It's not because of them, it's not because of anything they did, they said, or because they are here."

"This is something between two grown-up people who, as friends, decided that this is something that they want to do. That's the best we could do,” Farhan Akhtar continued. "It's never going to entirely go away thinking about ‘Did they deserve this?'. It's going to keep coming up. That's something I guess I'll just have to live with. The fact that it had happened to me as a kid played a huge role in how I feel about it now."

Farhan and Adhuna got separated in 2016. They are parents totwo daughters:Shakya and Akira. Farhan exchanged wedding vows with actress Shibani Dandekarin 2022.

Recently, Farhan featured in Zoya Akhtar's docu-series Angry Young Men, which is based on the life of his father and ace lyricist Javed Akhtar and Salman Khan's father Salim Khan.

The three-episode series takes a deep dive into Javed Akhtar and Salim Khan's camaraderie and how the writers' duo shook Hindi showbiz in the 70s and 80s.