Parents’ drinking binges, hunger, violence. Stars not broken by a difficult childhood

There are many examples where the scions of famous and wealthy families end up becoming parasites, wasting their lives in nightclubs with breaks for treatment for alcoholism and drug addiction. But there are also vice versa – those who, despite a difficult childhood, did not break, persevered and, thanks to the hardening they received at an early age, achieved a lot.

Not all stars whose childhood was very difficult are ready to talk about it openly. Those who are frank with their viewers are divided into two “camps”. Some were able to forgive their parents who wronged them at a young age. Over the years, they realized that they became strong because they had to overcome a lot as children. Others never found the generosity and love in themselves to forgive their parents, preferring to forget about their relatives, who were left to vegetate in poverty.

Aif.ru has collected stories of domestic “stars” in which they openly talk about their experiences at an early age and how they cope with this heavy moral burden in adulthood.

Protected my mother from my drunkard father

Gymnast, TV presenter, mother of two children and wife of a showman Pavel Volya Laysan Utyasheva She does not hide the fact that her childhood was marred by her father’s drunkenness. In an interview with Svetlana Bondarchuk on the YouTube show “Sveta Around the World,” Laysan said: “I don’t want to make a demon out of my dad, but I’ve seen enough. I lived my entire childhood in fear that my drunk dad would come and it would start again. When I was ten, I told my mother: “We have to run away.” Mom was afraid of what people would think. So that I wouldn’t hate my father, she would say: “Your dad is a little sick, let’s try to cure him.”

Every morning she sat, applying meat from the freezer to the bruises, I saw and heard everything. When I raised my hand against my own father, defending my mother, it was already too much. My hand was so heavy that I broke the mace, and they only brought it to me from Japan. We lived in a one-room apartment. Mom knitted at night, then we sold onions at the market, and she also worked in the library and gave lectures.”

Lack of money did not let the family go, and Laysan’s mother, when the young gymnast was 11 years old, leaving the girl in the care of a coach in Volgograd, went to work in Moscow. When the parent returned, she found her daughter so emaciated that she could not get out of bed. As it turned out, no one cared about feeding the girl. Suffering from hunger, Laysan stole food from the dog. Nevertheless, difficulties only brought mother and daughter together. In 2012, Laysan’s mother died. In all her interviews, the athlete remembers her with great love and admits how much she misses her mother.

“It’s better to be an orphan!”

And here Nastasya Samburskaya When his mother is alive, he prefers not to communicate with her. She cannot forgive her for the indifference that made her dream of being an orphan as a child. In one of her interviews, Nastasya shared her experiences: “It’s better not to have parents at all than to live with the ones I had.” According to the actress, her parents did not care whether she was well-fed or whether she had something to wear to go outside in the cold. One winter, little Nastya had to go to school in summer sandals, because they never bought her warm shoes. She simply did not buy seasonal shoes. After 9th grade, Nastya left home and entered a technical school to become a hairdresser. “As soon as the rudiments of brains began to emerge, I left the city and forgot what their names were all! I tried to forgive when I grew up. It didn’t work out,” the actress wrote on her social network page when talking about her parents. She also admitted that she experienced violence as a child, without going into details.

The actress also did not communicate with her parents for a long time Christine Asmus, Only recently has she established a relationship with her father and mother.

According to Christina, as a child, against her will, her mother forced her to do gymnastics. “It’s not easy for a child to be forced to exercise 13 hours a day for 10 years (even with a double fracture), endure beatings, dislike from parents, starve for years and celebrate her first birthday at 18,” this is how Christina once responded to one of the comments on on her page on the social network, where she was reproached that “pampered Instagram actresses have no idea what work is”…

For many years the actress did not communicate with her parents and became close to them only after her divorce from her ex-husband, a showman. Garik Kharlamov. After breaking up with her husband, Christina took a step towards her parents. She shared that she invited her father to visit and prepared “more and more things” for such an occasion.

“Relationships with parents are the main pain”

Asmus grew up in a large family, but as she grew up, she only communicated with her younger sister Karina. She could not forgive her mother for putting the idea of ​​making her daughters gymnastics champions at the forefront, so from the age of 5 the girls studied at the Dynamo sports school. The girls had to get up at 5 am to get to the beginning of classes. Hours of training, food restrictions – and all this for the sake of the mother’s dream, but not for Christina herself, who hated what she was doing. Asmus admitted: “Relationships with parents are my biggest pain. I need to solve this problem, otherwise I won’t be able to move on.” She was able to do this and made peace with her mom and dad. And having been a mother herself for many years, Christina made a public confession, addressing her mother on her social network page: “Mom, I’m only starting to understand you now. Only now I realize that all the most powerful things come from you.”

The supermodel also had a difficult childhood Natalia Vodianova, mother of five children, whose first husband was an English lord, and whose second was the heir to the richest family in France, Henri Arnault. Natalya, recalling her childhood years, honestly says that it was hard – she was hungry, there was not enough money, but at the same time she never made any claims to her mother.

Since childhood, she took the position that if it’s hard for a family, then we need to help. The girl lived in Nizhny Novgorod. At the age of 11, Natasha left school to help her mother, who was selling vegetables at the market. The woman alone was caring for three children – besides Natalya there were two younger girls, one of whom, Oksana, was disabled as a child. Natalya stopped going to school without regret – she had no friends there, she simply did not have time for friendship, because she had to help her mother.

When Vodianova became a world-famous model, many media outlets called her story a “Cinderella Story.” She herself was not ashamed of her childhood, she came to Nizhny and showed journalists the place where she sold bananas. Her relatives remained and still live in the city, whom she helps financially. And a few years ago, sensational news came – Vodianova found her third sister in the USA. As it turned out, her mother had another, fourth daughter, Masha, whom she gave up for adoption to an American family almost immediately after birth. Now Natalya maintains a relationship with her too. The only one she ignores is her cousin Sergei Vodyanov, convicted several times for robbery and theft and spent a total of 15 years in prison.