Kabir Bedi celebrated the success of his autobiography, Stories I Must Tell: The Emotional Life Of An Actor, with his granddaughter, Alaya F. The actress spoke to her grandfather about his emotional life journey. During the Instagram live chat, Kabir opened up about the ills of divorce. The actor shared that though he had divorced Alaya's 'nani', Protima Bedi, he never divorced his children- Pooja Bedi and late Siddharth Bedi.
"Whenever there's a divorce it's always a tragedy and the biggest sufferers are the children. But even though I divorced your nani, I never ever divorced my children. So the children had to be brought to me in their vacations or I would fly from America. So there was no sacrifice involved, there was a cost involved but that didn't matter. What mattered was spending time with them. Whenever there's a divorce people always talk about quality time...but quantity is also important," Kabir told.
He further added, "One of my great regrets is that I couldn't give enough quantity time to Pooja and Siddharth. So I tried to make it up by having the best time I could with them when they came. And that's what mattered to me. Being able to have that time with them and make the most of it..."
Kabir recalled, "Those were very special times I spent with your mother (Pooja) and your uncle (Siddharth). They spent their last few years of high school with me. They came and lived in America with me then Pooja returned to Bombay to start her Bollywood career and Siddharth stayed on to go to university first Carnegie Mellon and then Chapel Hill in North Carolina. It was always on my mind to keep them as a part of my life and that was something I managed to do. I always regret that I couldn't spend more time with them but then that's what happens in divorces."
(Source: Instagram)
