Former BBC journalist Reham Khan, whose marriage to cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan ended in just 10 months, has said she was told to make chapatis and not be seen outside the kitchen. Imran Khan and Reham announced their decision to split on October 30 amid reports that he objected to her meddling in politics. There had been reports for months that their marriage was on the rocks.
Khan wed Reham after his first marriage with English heiress Jemima Goldsmith for nine years ended in divorce in June 2004. Reham, a divorced mother of three, left a job on regional BBC news and moved to Pakistan in 2013.
“I was told specifically by a senior adviser: they basically wanted me to be in the kitchen, to be cooking chapatis and not to be seen ever again,” Reham told The Sunday Times.
