Kalki On Her Divorce With Anurag: ‘It Was Hurtful’

Kalki
Koechlin
recently
spoke
up
about
her
divorce
with
Anurag
Kashyap
in
an
interview
with
Zoom
TV’s
Spotlight.

The
couple
had
worked
in
2009’s

Dev
D
and
got


married
two
years
later.

Kalki
was
28
at
the
time,
while
Anurag
was
38.

They
were
married
for
four
years
before
calling
it
quits
in
2015.

‘The
first
few
years
after
the
divorce
were
not
easy
for
us,’
Kalki
says
in
the
interview.

‘Then
came
a
point
when
we
were
like,
‘we
need
to
stay
out
of
each
other’s
lives’
because
it
was
hurtful
to
see
the
other
person
with
somebody
else.
The
reminders
are
so
strong.’

‘It
does
take
a
few
years.
We
didn’t
get
to
it
immediately.
The
distance
helps.
Now
we
are
in
a
good
place
and
we
are
able
to
catch
up
once
in
a
while,’
she
added.

Kalki
attended
Kashyap’s
daughter


Aaliyah’s
wedding
last
year
and
seemed
to
be
comfortable
with
her
ex-husband.

Kalki
added
that
her
divorce
might
have
stemmed
from
her
parents’
troubled
relationship
and
subsequent
divorce
when
she
was
only
13.

‘My
parents
divorced
when
I
was
13,
and
it
was
really
bad.
They
were
really
nasty
to
each
other
and
it
was
like
cold
and
mean.
Growing
up
between
them,
that
was
very
tough.
Maybe
that’s
why
I’m
divorced,’
she
said.

‘There
is
a
certain
part
of
you
that
jeopardises
relationships
once
they
start
going
bad,
and
you
are
like
‘oh
this
happens’
because
you
have
witnessed
that
as
a
child.

‘I
have
witnessed
my
parents
separating
and
divorcing
and
hating
each
other
for
a
while.
A
part
of
you
loses
the
faith
to
walk
through
the
worst,’
she
said.

‘Consciousness
and
therapy’
has
helped
Kalki
over
time.

Kalki
has
a
daughter
Sappho,
aged
five,
with
her
partner
Guy
Hershberg.