{"id":76743,"date":"2024-03-29T11:30:04","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T11:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/the-decision-wasnt-right-shahzad-sheikh-opens-up-on-his-parents-divorce\/"},"modified":"2024-03-29T11:30:04","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T11:30:04","slug":"the-decision-wasnt-right-shahzad-sheikh-opens-up-on-his-parents-divorce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/the-decision-wasnt-right-shahzad-sheikh-opens-up-on-his-parents-divorce\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The decision wasn\u2019t right&#8230;&#8217;: Shahzad Sheikh opens up on his parents&#8217; divorce"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Actor Shahzad Sheikh reflected on life after his parents\u2019 divorce in his childhood, and how the family kept their bond despite the separation.<\/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>In his recent outing on actor-host Ahmad Ali Butt\u2019s podcast <em>\u2018Excuse Me\u2019<\/em>, Shahzad Sheikh opened up about the stigmatization of divorce in our society, underscoring the fact that it\u2019s not always that one person or both in a relationship are wrong, sometimes two perfectly good people are not compatible with each other and are together, just for the sake of their kids.<\/p>\n<p>Butt added that it is unfair on their end because they both become really unhappy in the relationship and start to resent each other.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a family, it\u2019s important to sit and talk it out, and involve kids in the decision-making process [of separation],\u201d Sheikh noted.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe title=\"Excuse Me with Ahmad Ali Butt | Ft. Shahzad Sheikh | Latest Interview | Episode 47 | Podcast\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7hx2cSfUGEY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>Further, speaking about his own parents\u2019 divorce, the<em> \u2018Tere Bina Mein Nahi\u2019<\/em> actor added, \u201cCredit goes to my mother; she never once thought, \u2018I will not let the kids meet their father\u2019. Always in the summers, during vacations, she sent us to Lahore for two or three months. We spent time with my father and cousins, bonding with them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, I see regret in my mother\u2019s eyes, in my father\u2019s eyes, that the decision wasn\u2019t right. If you see regret in someone\u2019s eyes, you can\u2019t do anything more than that,\u201d he explained, adding that the family is still on good terms, and lives in the same house.<\/p>\n<p>For the unversed, Shahzad Sheikh and his sister Momal are children of veteran actor Javed Sheikh and\u00a0his first wife, Zeenat Mangi.<\/p>\n<p>In an earlier outing, the <em>\u2018Samjhota\u2019<\/em> actor also expressed the regret of divorcing his first wife and shared that it is one of the greatest guilts of his life.<\/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\/CrWT9jSoffu\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/arynews.tv\/javed-sheikh-separation-biggest-guilt-of-life\/\">\u2018Wish it had not happened\u2026\u2019: Javed Sheikh shares biggest guilt of life<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\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>Actor Shahzad Sheikh reflected on life after his parents\u2019 divorce in his childhood, and how the family kept their bond despite the separation. Watch ARY News live on\u00a0live.arynews.tv In his recent outing on actor-host Ahmad Ali Butt\u2019s podcast \u2018Excuse Me\u2019, Shahzad Sheikh opened up about the stigmatization of divorce in our society, underscoring the fact [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76744,"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\/shahzad.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76743","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\/76743","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=76743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}