In October last year, Aryan Khan, son of actor Shah Rukh Khan and interior designer Gauri Khan was arrested by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) under suspicion of carrying drugs aboard a cruise in Mumbai. Neither Shah Rukh nor Gauri had spoken about it. However, on the recent episode of filmmaker Karan Johar’s chat show, Koffee With Karan Season 7, Gauri broke her silence on the subject and shared that “nothing can be worse” than what the family went through.

During the episode, Karan asked her about life as an entrepreneur, as Shah Rukh’s wife and how the entire family dealt with Aryan’s entanglement in last year’s drugs-on-cruise case.

Enquiring about how the incident, Karan said, “It’s been such a tough time for him (Shah Rukh), not just professionally, but with everything the family went through. You all have emerged so strong, as a family. I know it hasn’t been easy. I know you as a mother and him as a father, and all of us like we’re members of the same family. What do you have to say about your own way of handling tough times, when families go through something like that?”

To this, Gauri replied, “I think nothing can be worse than what we’ve been through as parents.”

She added that the incident made them come out stronger: “Today where we stand as a family, I can say that we are in a great space where we feel loved by everyone — all our friends and so many people who we did not know. With so many messages and so much love, I feel blessed. I’m grateful to all the people who have helped us through this.”

Aryan, 24, spent a few weeks in jail before he was given a clean chit by a Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the NCB.