Karan Johar’s couch has gotten another confession. On the third episode of Koffee With Karan Season 9, Janhvi Kapoor stopped dodging and confirmed what everyone had suspected for years: she and industrialist Shikhar Pahariya are together.

She came on with her Bawaal co-star Varun Dhawan, and her brother Arjun Kapoor turned up later as a surprise guest. Before he arrived, though, Karan asked the question, and this time Janhvi answered it.

Done with the guessing game

Janhvi said she always wondered why celebrities get so secretive about their relationships. She doesn’t want to invite bad luck, she explained, and she won’t share every detail of her private life. But she thinks the idea that nobody should ever know is overrated. In her words, it’s “boring to tiptoe around it.” So she’s stopped.

The moment that settled it

When Karan asked whether Shikhar was her endgame, she said yes without hesitating. When her mother, Sridevi, died, Shikhar was studying in London. The two weren’t even dating at the time.…