Boxer Amir Khan’s glamorous wife Faryal Makhdoom ‘controlling’ beauty is to blame for the boxer not talking to his family for six months.
Amir’s father Shah Khan blamed his son’s wife Faryal Makhdoom Khan and her mother for the latest fall out, accusing them of trying to control his life and drive a wedge between him and his family.
Speaking from his home in Bolton, Shah said: ‘Amir’s wife and mother-in-law have teamed up, 100 per cent. They’re in his head, both of them. They want to control everything about Amir. They’re running the show. They want to run everything in his life. We said fine, carry on with it. We’ve taken a step back.
‘But I don’t know why he stopped talking to us. I have no idea. They keep pumping his head with ‘oh they’ve (Khan family) ripped you off. They say that I’ve robbed him. They’ve turned him against us.’
Amir and his father were once close but the boxer sacked him as his manager in February 2017 in a move that Shah said had publicly humiliated him during his feud with the star’s wife Faryal.
Shah revealed that the current spat stemmed from last November when Amir went to Saudi Arabia with his wife to perform Umrah, the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca.
While there, Amir exchanged some social media messages with his youngest sister Mariyah which, Shah claims, ‘were not nice.’
He added: ‘I couldn’t see Amir sending those messages but they did come from his phone, so I wanted to know if he’d sent them. I thought when he gets back, I’ll ask him, face to face but we’ve not faced each other since then.’
Shah maintained that he is still seething from an incident late last November after his wife Falak was rushed to hospital with an anxiety attack following a heated telephone conversation with Faryal’s mother, Kausar Zia.
Shah fumed: ‘I don’t know what the heck his wife and her mother have done to him. But that’s not the Amir I know. I don’t know where his mind is.’
Shah maintained that he is still seething from an incident late last November after his wife Falak was rushed to hospital with an anxiety attack following a heated telephone conversation with Faryal’s mother, Kausar Zia.
Shah said: ‘We thought Falak was having a heart attack. I sent a photograph of her on a stretcher to Amir with the message ‘Amir, thanks mate.’
‘To this day, he has not rung up to ask how she is or visited her. That shocked me. I thought what has she done that’s so bad that he can’t even be bothered to ring his mother and ask, ‘how are you?’
‘Which son or daughter doesn’t pick the phone up when they see their parent coming out of an ambulance?’
Shah said, ‘This is all about money and greed. Money breaks up families and sadly, this is happening to us.’
Shah fears his son’s golden years in the ring may be over, blaming Faryal, who has taken over managing parts of his boxing career.