Sheikh revealed that his first girlfriend was French. “I met her in Karachi because her father was PIA’s station manager in Paris and she was on holidays here. I was a nobody at the time but I guess I was lucky that such a charming lady went out with me. But then, obviously, she left for home and called me there. Again, I needed money and my father had a Morris. I sold it for Rs5,000, got a ticket for Rs3,000 and went to Paris. I got a beating for that later too.” But the veteran added that after that, he went to Paris five to six times upon being called by the same girl, who even provided him tickets. And that is where he groomed himself. He then enrolled in Alliance Francoise to learn French too. Till this day, the