{"id":68665,"date":"2024-03-08T01:18:03","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T01:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/imran-khan-confirms-divorce-from-ex-wife-is-his-girlfriend-lekha-the-homewrecker\/"},"modified":"2024-03-08T01:18:03","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T01:18:03","slug":"imran-khan-confirms-divorce-from-ex-wife-is-his-girlfriend-lekha-the-homewrecker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/imran-khan-confirms-divorce-from-ex-wife-is-his-girlfriend-lekha-the-homewrecker\/","title":{"rendered":"Imran Khan confirms divorce from ex-wife: Is his girlfriend Lekha the homewrecker?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_79\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><strong>Former Bollywood actor Imran Khan said he and his ex-wife Avantika Malik have been divorced since 2019 while confirming his new romance with girlfriend Lekha Washington.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch ARY News live on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/live.arynews.tv\/hq\/\">live.arynews.tv<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bollywood heartthrob Imran Khan, best known for appearing in films like\u00a0<em>\u2018Jaane Tu\u2026 Ya Jaane Na\u2019, \u2018Delhi Belly\u2019<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>\u2018Luck\u2019<\/em>, put an end to years of speculation and confirmed in a new interview, \u201cThe speculation that I\u2019m romantically involved with Lekha Washington is true.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also mentioned, \u201cI\u2019m divorced and have been separated [from Avantika Malik] since February 2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about the social media narrative around Washington being the homewrecker in his marriage with Malik, the <em>\u2018Luck\u2019<\/em> star added, \u201cThere\u2019s this narrative of Lekha being a homewrecker, which infuriates me because not only is it misogynistic but it also takes away my agency as an individual.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLekha and I grew close during the lockdown, a year and a half after I had been separated from Avantika and almost a year after she had separated from her partner, not husband as it has been widely reported,\u201d Khan explained.<\/p>\n<p>Pertinent to note here that Imran Khan and Avantika Malik tied the knot in 2011, after years of dating. They welcomed their daughter Imara in 2014.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BOUP1HpAaN5\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>However, their marriage started having troubles and Malik moved out of their house with their daughter in 2019. The couple started living separately, citing irreconcilable differences.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Imran recently attended his cousin, Ira Aamir Khan and Nupur Shikhare\u2019s wedding with his ladylove Lekha Washington.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/arynews.tv\/luck-actor-imran-khan-confirms-bollywood-comeback\/\">\u2018Luck\u2019 actor Imran Khan confirms Bollywood comeback<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script type=\"rocketlazyloadscript\">\n  window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n    FB.init({\n      appId      : '161345524510473',\n      cookie     : true,\n      xfbml      : true,\n      version    : 'v3.0'\n    });\n    FB.AppEvents.logPageView();   \n  };\n  (function(d, s, id){\n     var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n     if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n     js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n     js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n     fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n   }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Bollywood actor Imran Khan said he and his ex-wife Avantika Malik have been divorced since 2019 while confirming his new romance with girlfriend Lekha Washington. Watch ARY News live on\u00a0live.arynews.tv Bollywood heartthrob Imran Khan, best known for appearing in films like\u00a0\u2018Jaane Tu\u2026 Ya Jaane Na\u2019, \u2018Delhi Belly\u2019\u00a0and\u00a0\u2018Luck\u2019, put an end to years of speculation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/arynews.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/imran-khan.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}