Bollywood star Saif Ali Khan did not have a great start to the year. The actor and his family were victims of a house break-in. He was stabbed by the intruder when he tried to protect his kids, who were sleeping in their respective rooms. Saif was injured and hospitalised in the middle of the night. He has now revealed that his life flashed before his eyes after the stabbing.
Saif Ali Khan recalls moment he was stabbed
In an interview with Esquire India, Saif recalled the harrowing night of January 16 when an intruder entered their house and went into his and Kareena Kapoor`s younger son Jeh`s room.
Looking back on the tragic night, Saif said, “There’s this crazy sense of how lucky one is because (the knife attack) was damn close. And to walk away relatively unscathed is nothing short of miraculous.”
Sharing what went through his mind in that moment, he added, “It could have been the adrenaline, but I remember thinking life has been colourful and I’ve been privileged… not just in terms of money. So many people have more. But I’ve lived in that rarefied atmosphere of Winchester, travelled with loved ones, the wine, my wife, my children.”
Saif Ali Khan reveals how the incident unfolded
In a conversation with Times of India, Saif shared how the incident unfolded: “Kareena had been out to dinner, and I had some work in the morning, so I stayed in. She came back, we had a chat, and went to sleep. After a while, the househelp rushed in and said, ‘There’s an intruder! There’s a guy in Jeh’s room with a knife asking for money!’ It was around 2 a.m. Obviously, I kind of lost it and went in there to see, and I saw this guy holding (what I thought were) two sticks over Jeh’s bed – it was actually a hexa blade.”
He continued, “I ran and pulled him down, and then we were wrestling.” Saif added that while he was fighting the intruder, Kareena took Jeh and went to Taimur`s room.
