Salman Khan is known for the values he has for his family, and how truly he loves his family members to the core. Saying that today we are here with an old video of Salman Khan when he opened up on Salim Khan’s second marriage with Helen and how his mother Salma reacted to it.
In a 1990 interview with Filmfare, Salman Khan said, “My mom’s the best thing that’s ever happened to me. I can’t say why, I don’t think explanations are needed. We get along very well because basically, I’m a mama’s boy. I can’t bear to see her unhappy. She was very hurt when my father married again; I’d hate it when she’d wait up for him to come home.”
He added, “Then, gradually, mom started accepting it. Dad explained to us that he still loved mom and that he’ll always be around. I was about 10 at that time and it took us quite some time to really accept Helen aunty. Today she’s a part of our family. Our whole family is like a closed fist, each one of us knows that if any one of us needs the other at any stage, we’ll be there.”
However amidst that Helen also said that she felt guilty of marrying a married man with four children, saying, “The fact that Salim was a married man did disturb me and I did feel guilty in the beginning. Something about Salim set him apart from the rest of the industry men. I respected him tremendously as he tried to help me out without trying to exploit me.”
While Salim Khan added, “As kids, they had their hostility. But they reacted the way their mother did. As I told you very honestly, it wasn’t as if Salma accepted the relationship happily straightaway and thanked me for it or said, you deserve an Oscar for it. So at that time, there was hostility from the children.” as quoted by Koi Moi.
