While journalist Reham Khan, ex-wife of cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan (Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman), may have been unkind to her ex-husband in her 445 page autobiography, it is the King Khan who has earned the author’s adoration. Reham Khan was working with a news portal in 2008 when she crossed Shah Rukh Khan’s path. It was the actor’s humble nature that won Reham Khan over.
"...I became the face of a leading personal injury firm, and popularised the catchphrase ‘Don't delay, Claim Today’. One of their adverts was targeted at the Pakistani and Indian community and became extremely popular as I appeared in it next to The King of Bollywood, Shah Rukh Khan," Reham Khan says in her book.
“I was impressed by his professionalism and his lack of arrogance; this was an educated, well-brought up man of a middle-class family; friendly, with polite restraint, and not one bit of the diva he could so easily have been.”Reham Khan in her autobiography
Here’s the advertisement that Reham Khan appeared in with Shah Rukh Khan:
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