Something happened that caused divorce: Reham

LONDON: Reham Khan has revealed that she married Imran Khan only after being convinced that he loved her and they shared the same goals but then all of it turned out to be fake and a disaster that has turned into a witch hunt against her person, leaving her to fight her corner all on her own.
In her first “Why Imran Divorced Me” interview after her divorce with the PTI leader on October 30, Reham told the Sunday Times magazine that her marriage with him was not registered anywhere in Pakistan or Britain.
When the interviewer asked her what was the actual cause of breakup of their marriage, Reham said something between them happened which she could not get passed. When she was asked again about the reason for breakup she said it was something personal. The interviewer then repeatedly asked her about the cause of divorce but Reham only sobbed and sighed as disappointment writ large on her face.
Reham said that she thought Imran was in love with her but it was not true. “I married a man who convinced me that he loved me, who looked lonely and who I thought had the same ideas about life and the same goals, but we were just too different,” she sighed, adding, “Imran Khan did not give me my marriage ring even.”
Reham complained that she was viciously attacked in media but Imran told her to stay quiet and not respond or defend herself and no one in the PTI defended her either. She said the PTI chief thought the smear campaign against her will automatically come to an end.
Reham said Imran Khan’s sisters had categorically stated that they were against the marriage. “They said I was not enough good to be their brother’s wife and they never welcomed me as his wife even after marriage,” she explained.
She said her own brother was also not happy at her marriage with Imran because he thought Imran was not religious enough.The broadcast journalist described to the magazine about the

“painful” and “disturbing experience” following her divorce during which she has been accused of “hitting” him, “poisoning him with rat poison” and being an “MI6 spy”.
Reham said her marriage to the cricketer-turned-politician has been an example of “here is a woman”, let’s “demonise her”, “vilify her” and “burn her at the stake”.Reham said the marriage proposal came from Imran after she informed him about “inappropriate text messages” from one of his party leaders. She recalled that Imran asked her for her parents’ names which she found odd. “May be he wanted to ask his spiritual adviser whether he should marry me or not. The next time I met him, he proposed to me,” she added.
She said that the married life with Imran was a shock from the beginning. “I tried to talk to him, I’m very talkative and I’m very chatty but, you know, you can’t exactly with Imran Khan. You can’t discuss the colour of the curtains, you can only talk politics. You cannot exactly discuss Bollywood films with him. God knows I tried.
“He’s not very romantic. He never gave me anything, not even a wedding band,” she revealed.
She said there was no housekeeper, just a kitchen boy and a caretaker “who really wanted to be on TV” so guests were never fed and the PTI chief survived on “one chapati a day” and she set out to change all of that to make sure that Imran Khan was looked after and fed properly.
Reham rejected the accusation that she mistreated Imran Khan’s dogs. “My whole day revolved around his dogs. His dog was in love with me.”Reham said senior leaders in PTI had made it clear they had “issues with me working.”
“I was specifically told by a senior party adviser they basically wanted me to be in the kitchen, to be cooking chapatis and not to be ever seen again.”She said when she was made the official ambassador for street children in Peshawar, party members thought she was trying to “ride his coat-tails.”
“There wasn’t any involvement, I never attended meetings or anything of the sort, but obviously there was insecurity,” she added.She claimed Imran is living a lonely life and “has no friends.” “For someone who has been on their own for 54 years, a man who’s been a bachelor all his life, whose first marriage (to Jemima Goldsmith) was after he turned 40, it’s very hard to change. It’s very hard to settle in domestic life,” she lamented.
Reham said she has “no rights” as her marriage was never registered in Pakistan or UK. “After a 10-month marriage, you’re not entitled to anything.”
Reham said news of their divorce first broke in September when they were on a holiday. “I asked where are they getting this from?” she said, adding Imran told her to relax and it used to happen with him and Jemima as well.“But it seems to me now that everybody was expecting it and everybody knew.”
Reham claims she found “things emerging in the house” in the run up to their divorce and said those “small things” were Taweez and the servants said she shouldn’t be touching them.
Reham firmly believes that there was a plot against her for a long time in the making and Imran Khan knew about it all and probably may had a full role in it. “Let’s just say I think he knew more than I did.”
Reham is furious with the way she has been treated by media here and in Pakistan, “Both of us are divorced, but it seems (from the media) that I’m the only one. We’ve now both been divorced twice, but no one says that.”