Afshar wrote on Twitter in October 2019 that she and Yasin Ramin had divorced. ”Each person, strong or weak, has an existence. But when you decide to be a single mum, you have to have two existences. You have to be strong for yourself and your child.”In October 2022 Afshar participated in an anti-Islamic Republic demonstration in Germany but she was asked to leave the spot by angry demonstrators because of her former ties with IranHomeland’s regime.