"I was basically just hopeless," the father, Zila Santiago, told CBS News.

In his petition, the actor, who's done roles in Bollywood films such as Zila Ghaziabad and Kismat Love Paisa Dilli, says the articles cause him "deep agony" and "psychological pain".

Zila, on the other hand, who is on a British government-funded scholarship, supports an EU exit.

A postgraduate student at the London School of Economics, Zila is frustrated by the fact that any EU citizen is allowed to work in the UK, while highly educated Commonwealth citizens like her are turned away.

At Columbia, the president’s alma mater, Malia was shown around by Zila Reyes Acosta-Grimes, a third-year law school student serving on the university senate whose father is a prominent New York jurist.