Followed by the surprising presence made by Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan at the recent Netflix event in Mumbai, the internet is abuzz with theories revolving around the stabbing incident with many even raising questions on the incident. Addressing these ongoing rumors about Taimur getting him admitted to the hospital, Kareena Kapoor Khan’s absence around him and other theories floating around, Saif clarified on these during an interview with Bombay Times.
Saif Ali Khan resolves queries on his health condition; addresses conspiracy theories regarding the stabbing incident
Saif Ali Khan opens up about how he sustained those injuries during the attack
As he went on to describe how he decided to jump in to protect his wife and kids, Saif Ali Khan revealed that during the initial stages of attack, he failed to feel any pain due to the adrenaline rush. “I didn’t. It didn’t really hurt because there’s too much of adrenaline and shock at that moment. And then he was slashing at my neck, and I was blocking it with my hand. There were slashes to my palm and my wrist and arm. There was all this violence – slashing with both hands, most of which was kind of defended. And yeah, I fought with him, but I couldn’t handle it after a while because there were these two knives in action. And I was just barefoot, bare-handed in a kurta pajama,” Saif told BT.
Khan answers questions about Kareena’s whereabouts during the incident
He added, “And I was just praying that someone could get this guy off me at this point. And my incredibly lovely househelp (Geeta) pulled him off me and shoved him away.” Furthermore, speaking about what his wife Kareena was upto, Saif shared, “Kareena, in the meantime, had taken Jeh out and gone to Tim’s room. While this fight happened, Jeh was taken out. I remember Kareena screaming ‘Take the kid out!’” The actor insisted that his wife was attempting to keep their kids, especially their younger son Jeh safe from the intruder, as the latter was holding the youngest born as hostage when he attacked the house.
“Kareena was shouting for a rickshaw, or a cab, or anything. I said, I kind of feel some pain. There’s something wrong with my back. She said – you go to the hospital and I’ll go to my sister’s house. She was making calls frantically – but nobody was up. And we looked at each other, and I said, ‘I’m fine. I’m not going to die.’ And Taimur also asked me – ‘Are you going to die?’ I said, ‘No.’,” added the Devara actor.
Saif talks about the absence of a driver and Taimur accompanying him to the hospital
He also opened up about the driver’s absence insisting that they have these staff only during events since they too have a home to go too. He revealed that they decided against waiting for a driver as it would have taken longer. Saif insisted that they were on a lookout for a rickshaw when his son Taimur expressed concern and asserted that he would accompany him. “My wife sent him knowing what he would do for me. Maybe it wasn’t… at the moment, it was the right thing to do. I felt good about it. And I also thought, if God forbid, something happens, I’d like for him to be there. And he wanted to be there also. So, we went – him, me and Hari – in the rickshaw. The rickshaw guy saw the blood and he knew something had happened. But I think because of the kid, he kind of gave the whole thing some respectability. He saw that we were decent people, somehow. I don’t know how. And he was so amazing – he took a shortcut and took it easy on bumps. He drove me to Lilavati” Khan recalled.
Khan asserts that it is a ‘miracle’ that he survived
Describing his most critical injury, Saif said, “They said a good three-four inches of the knife has gone in behind the shoulder blade and has worked its way right to the bloody spinal cord. It’s a massive stab and it’s broken off, and it’s nicked the cover of the spinal cord. And there’s spinal fluid leaking out, which is why the feeling in the leg was going. That’s how close it came: Just one more millimetre and we’d be talking paralysis. It’s not like, you know, a back spasm or something that we’re underplaying.”
However, he expressed gratitude over his ‘miraculous’ recovery and clarified on the conspiracy theories saying, “Close is close. You’re either paralysed or you’re not. That’s how life is, right? I mean – you’re either hurt or not hurt. There’s 25 stitches here and there’s 30 stitches there. If you start with the two slashes on my palm and my arm – they had both not even cut a tendon. They could have cut the artery and the wrist and the veins, they could have cut… It’s just a miracle that my hands and my fingers are working fine. A guy cuts himself in the palm in the kitchen and then he can’t move his little finger for the rest of his life, you know.”
“So that’s a miracle. I have like 30 most awful scars running down my neck. I don’t understand how he missed my carotid artery and jugular vein… it’s not possible to cut somebody’s neck the way my neck is cut, and not kill them,” he asserted.
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