Terrified of flying, Jemima Khan takes anti-anxiety drug to combat fear
August 24th, 2010 - 1:06 pm ICT by ANILondon, Aug.24 (ANI): British socialite and former Pakistan cricket captain Imran Khan’s ex-wife Jemima Khan has admitted that she is still taking a drug prescribed for people suffering from moderate to severe anxiety disorders.
Jemima is taking Xanax, which is a potent short-acting drug of the benzodiazepine class every time she flies.
She was been doing so for the past decade. Ten years ago, she was left traumatised when a mentally ill man attacked the pilot of a plane she was traveling in, causing it to plummet 10,000 feet within seconds.”I am terrified of flying,” she told The Telegraph.
Khan said that even before the incident in 2000 she had been a nervous flyer. She, her sons, Sulaiman and Qasim, her mother, Lady Annabel Goldsmith, and other members of her family were on a flight to Nairobi when a disturbed student attacked the pilot.
The British Airways Boeing came perilously close to crashing into the Sudanese desert below as Captain William Hagan struggled to regain control of the aircraft.
She stayed calm at the time because of her children. (ANI)
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