Actress Shama Sikander married her longtime beau James Milliron earlier this week in an intimate ceremony in Goa with only close friends and family in attendance. The couple have been in a relationship since 2015 and also got engaged the same year. Even though their plan of getting married in 2020 got postponed due to the pandemic, their love story is nothing less than a magical fairytale.
Shama Sikander shares how James helped her battle depression
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Recently, the newlywed actress opened up about their first meeting and how her husband helped her through depression. Shama shared how she was suffering from bouts of depression but James stood like a rock refusing to leave her.
Recalling that phase, she told Pinkvilla.com, “I had just met him. I was still going through my bouts of depression. I would get depressed every now and then. When I would go through these feelings I just did not want anybody around me, I wanted people around me, but I would just push them to go away from me. And nobody ever dared to go against that decision, everybody would leave. But he was the only one who did not leave.”
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“I told him to get out, ‘just go away and leave me,’ but he went to the door, and then he just looked back at me and I was like a numb vegetable just sitting in one corner and he looked at me and he goes ‘I’m sorry but I can’t leave. I’ll sit here, I’ll just be with you, I don’t know how to fix this. But I’ll just be here, and then all night I literally did not speak to him. I just lay down on my bed and he just held me and that’s how I spent my whole night, and when I woke up in the morning I was in a better mood and that changed a lot of things.”
Shama’s love story is nothing less than a fairytale
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Elaborating on how she got bowled over by his courage and guts and felt everything genuine, she said, “We didn’t spend a single day apart after that, it was so natural that we just wanted to stay with each other, just wanted to talk, and know each other, and we realised that we both could have long conversations with each other about anything in life and that was the most important thing for me, communication in any relationship. We didn’t know what it was initially, but what we had was very intense and honest.”
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