When Amitabh Bachchan had said, ‘A divorce will never happen in our case' when there were speculations around his marriage with Jaya Bachchan

Time of India

14-07-2025

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have been married for more than 50 years. The duo tied the knot in June 1973. However, there was a phase in the 80s when there was a huge speculation surrounding their wedding and it had to do with the rumours of Bachchan's relationship with
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In her biography written by Yasser Usman titled 'Rekha: The Untold Story'published by Juggernaut, the author had penned what Jaya Bachchan and Amitabh Bachchan said about their marriage.
The book mentioned that Jaya Bachchan said once, 'Let the whole world say what they want. He [Amitabh Bachchan] has made a commitment to me and he has to have the courage (to say he's in love with somebody else!), and if he is doing something behind my back, it's his problem. Not my problem. He has to live with it, and with his conscience!"
An excerpt from the book further read, 'Without taking Rekha's name, Amitabh responded to the reported tensions in his marriage: 'A divorce will never happen in our case.
I don't believe in divorce because my basic instincts are Indian. I made an absolutely first-class choice when I took Jaya as my wife'."
The book further mentioned, 'This is the closest that Amitabh ever came to even admitting that all was not well in the Bachchan household. But Rekha kept fuelling the media fire. In an interview with Stardust, she made a strange claim: that Jaya had invited her over to the Bachchan home one day. 'Jaya did not mind the relationship as long as she thought her husband was only having a fling. It's when she realised that he was really emotionally involved, that is when it began hurting her.
She called me for dinner one evening and though we spoke about everything but him, before I left that day, she made sure to tell me, 'I will never leave Amit whatever happens'."