Veteran actor Neelima Azeem says that she feels safe around her son Shahid Kapoor and that he and her other son Ishaan Khatter, from her marriage with Rajesh Khattar, must’ve learnt from her wrong choices.

She was married to Pankaj Kapur from 1979 to 1984 and to Rajesh Khattar from 1990 till 2001. Her third marriage was with Raza Ali Khan that also ended in 2009.

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The ‘Dolly Kitty Aur Woh Chamakte Sitare’ star opened up about how her failed marriages must have impacted her sons.

“I sometimes even would like to say that maybe children who are watching us taking certain choices and then having those mighty falls might decide to be more stable than us. So I’d like to give that credit to the kids and not hog all the limelight and say ‘oh I was so wonderful that they learnt all the wonderful things they saw in me.’ They saw some flaws also and they said, ‘okay, this is not what I am going to inculcate this’, because the DNA is the same, we are going to be very consciously keeping a part of us out.

“So, they must have even learnt from my pitfalls and my impulsive or wrong, silly choices or whatever you may say. In a complete sense, in a larger perspective, I have been there for them,” she said in an interview with Bollywood Bubble.

She says that she seeks out Shahid for these “wonderful conversations in life we have and our sense of humour also tallies a lot, and he’s cute and kind and sensitive so I feel wonderful and safe around him.”

“With Mira, I have all the understanding of what two women who are on the same page can have and who share the same life with the same people. And we’re both cool. With Ishaan, I have this wonderful sense of companionship where we are similar in certain ways and we move in rhythm very well together, and I feel very comfortable with Ishaan,” she said.

She also says Shahid‘s wife, Mira Rajput is more of a friend than a daughter-in-law. “Maybe I understand her because she is young, she got kids at a very young age, she’s an extremely intelligent individual, yet she is kind and giving, understanding …”