Sharmila Tagore opened the treasure of anecdotes and unknown stories in the 10th episode of Karan Johar-hosted chat show, Koffee With Karan 8. She was with her Saif Ali Khan. During the episode, the veteran actress spoke about her son's marriage with Amrita Singh and separation. She said divorce with Amrita wasn't a 'harmonious' time for the family as they also lost Sara Ali Khan and Ibrahim Ali Khan.

Sharmila said, "When you are together for such a long time and you have such lovely children, then no break up is easy. Then it is not a harmonious… I know it is difficult to have harmony at that stage, everybody is hurt… so that stage was not nice but I tried. But that’s water under the bridge, she needed time to cool down and they worked it out together."

She further added, "It’s not just staying away, there are so many other things that are involved. It wasn’t a happy time for us because Ibrahim was just three and we were very fond of the children. Especially, Tiger was really fond of Ibrahim and he would say, ‘That’s a good lad.’ He didn’t get that time with him. So we felt doubly deprived to lose Amrita and lose the two kids. So it’s just not him but we also had to adjust to all that."

Saif and Amrita were married from 1991 to 2004.