Imran confirms adopting ‘love-child’
Lahore, May 23
After rounds of statements and subsequent denials added to the confusion, legendary cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan finally confirmed that he and his wife Jemima would take custody of Tyrian, the daughter of Sita White.
The World Cup-winning captain, however, ducked questions about whether he was the father of the girl.
Responding to a question at a meet the press programme at the Karachi Press Club yesterday, the chief of the Tehrik-e-Insaf revealed that ten days before her death, Sita had requested him and Jemima to take custody of her child.
“I and my wife Jemima accepted her request and decided to take Tyrian into our guardianship,’’ Imran said. Tyrian, however, continue to live in America, he added.
Earlier, Imran had said that Sita and Jemima knew each other well because Sita’s father, the late Lord White and Jemimas father, the late Sir James Goldsmith, were very close friends.
Sita White, the mother of Imran’s allegedly illegitimate daughter Tyrian, died on May 14 of a heart attack which was suspected to have been induced by drugs.
Despite Sita’s claims, Imran has always denied that Tyrian was his daughter even though in 1997 a US judge ruled in favour of Sita stating it was the Pakistan cricket legend who fathered Tyrian.
— UNI
The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Sport
