Ayesha Mukherjee Puts Rumours To Rest, Confirms Divorce With Shikhar Dhawan

Ayesha Mukherjee opened up on her divorce with cricketer Shikhar Dhawan after 8 years of marriage on social media.

New Delhi: The divorce of Indian cricketer Shikhar Dhawan and Ayesha Mukherjee has been confirmed by the Australia-based kickboxer on her official Instagram.

The couple shared 3 kids - two daughters from Ayesha's previous marriage and one 7-year-old son, Zoravar, who was born in 2014.

In a lengthy heart-warming post, Mukherjee opened up about her thoughts and feelings on this divorce. She wrote:

"I THOUGHT DIVORCE WAS A DIRTY WORD UNTIL I BECAME A 2 TIME DIVORCEE.

"Funny how words can have such powerful meanings and associations. I experienced this first hand as a divorcee. The first time I went through a divorce I was soooooooo fu@kn scared. I felt like I had failed and I was doing something so wrong at that time.

"I felt as if I had let everyone down and even felt selfish. I felt that I was letting my parents down, I felt that I was letting my children down and even to some extent I felt as if I was letting God down. Divorce was such a dirty word.

"So now imagine, I have to go through it a second time. Woooahhhhhh. That is terrifying. Being divorced once before already, felt like I had more at stake the second time round. I had more to prove. So when my second marriage broke down it was really scary. All the feelings I felt when I went through it the first time came flooding in. Fear, failure and disappointment x 100. What does this mean for me? How does this define me and my relationship to marriage?

"Well, once I went through the necessary actions and emotions of what had happened I was able to sit with myself and see that I was fine, I was actually doing great, even noticed my fear had totally disappeared. The remarkable thing is I actually felt much more empowered. I realised my fear and the meaning I gave to the word divorce was my own doing.

"So, once I realised this I started to redefine the word and the experience of divorce according to the way I wanted to see it and experience it."