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When late actor Sridevi and producer Boney Kapoor got married in 1996, it caused quite a scandal. Boney was already married to Mona Kapoor, and was a father to two kids – Arjun Kapoor and Anshula Kapoor. After tying the knot with Sridevi, he moved away from his first family. Unsurprisingly, there was discord between the two sides, or so it seemed. In a new interview, Boney shared that he never kept his first wife Mona in the dark about his affair with Sridevi. In fact, he said that Mona bought their wedding rings.
Talking to Chanda Kochhar on her YouTube channel, Boney shared that his children with Mona, Arjun and Anshula, came out to support Janhvi and Khushi, his daughters with Sridevi, after she passed away in 2018. He then spoke about his relationship with Mona, who died in 2012, and recalled that he had confessed everything to her about his relationship with Sridevi. “My first wife, I told her, I had confessed to her,” he said and pointed to a ring on his finger.
“Look at this ring that I am wearing, and the ring that she (Sridevi) was wearing. Both were bought by Mona. I told her openly and that’s how she brought the children up without creating any kind of hatred towards me or the other kids,” he shared, but acknowledged that Arjun and Anshula must have gone through a period of discomfort while all of this was happening.
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He then shared that he still has an emotional letter from his son Arjun, wondering where he had gone. “I have a letter from Arjun where he asked me, ‘Why don’t you come home?’ I used to feel bad. What could I do? I was divided. On one side, was my wife (Sridevi), and on the other side were my kids. I couldn’t leave Sridevi alone, her parents had passed, she was alone. But here, at least my kids were with their mother and they were living with their grandparents,” he said.
Boney said that he “had to make a choice” and shared, “I love my children. I loved them even more back then. And I had to go through things… I had to be very strong to handle some situations. Because I love all my children. And I respected my ex-wife because she never played this game of putting one against the other. Kids felt bad because they couldn’t see their mom suffering, which I understand. And I feel blessed now, all the four of them are together.”
Arjun and Anshula have previously spoken about how they decided to reach out to Janhvi and Khushi after Sridevi’s untimely passing.
