Esha Deol, Husband Bharat Takhtani Announce Separation After 11 Years of Marriage
Esha Deol and Bharat Takhtani have announced their separation. Read the joint statement here.
After 11 years of marriage, actress Esha Deol and her husband Bharat Takhtani have announced their separation. In the latest entertainment news, the duo released a joint statement, saying the separation is "amicable". For the unversed, Esha Deol is the daughter of actors Dharmendra and Hema Malini. “We have mutually and amicably decided to part ways. Through this shift in our lives, the best interests and welfare of our two children is and will be of utmost importance to us," the couple said in a statement, which was issued to Delhi Times.
"We’d appreciate our privacy is respected," the statement added.
Esha and Bharat are parents to daughters Radhya, 6, and Miraya, 4.
The duo had tied the knot with each other in 2012.
For the unversed, last year, Esha and Bharat had celebrated their wedding anniversary as Esha wished her husband with a few pictures on social media.
"For keeps for eternity @bharattakhtani3 #weddinganniversary #11 gratitude," she wrote on Instagram.
Check out the post here:
The speculation surrounding Esha and her husband's divorce began after Bharat was not seen at Hema Malini's birthday last year. He did not attend Esha's birthday celebration either.
In her parenting book published in 2020, Esha had also shared that her husband felt “neglected” after they welcomed their second daughter.
“After my second baby, for a short while, I noticed that Bharat was cranky and irritated with me. He felt that I wasn’t giving him enough attention. It is very natural for a husband to feel this way because at that time, I was consumed with Radhya’s playschool fiasco and feeding Miraya, and I was also between writing my book and dealing with my production meetings. So, he felt neglected. And I immediately noticed the error of my ways. I remembered the times when Bharat had asked me for a new toothbrush, and it had slipped my mind, or when his shirts hadn’t been pressed or when I sent him off to work without bothering to check what he’d been given for lunch. He’s a man of very few needs, and if I couldn’t look after him, there was something wrong. I quickly made sure to rectify it," she said in her book.
“Bharat is different; he tells me directly, to my face, if he senses a problem. But there may be men who are not so forthcoming. It falls on you to keep the romance alive. I figured that I hadn’t gone out for date nights or a movie with him in a while. So I decided to step out of my tracks, loosen my bun, wear a nice dress and go out with him on the weekends,” she added.
