Singer Alena Apina and producer Alexander Iratov have been married for 25 years and celebrated their silver wedding. Many considered the couple to be one of the strongest couples in show business, but their union collapsed at the end of 2016. The singer admitted on a social network that they decided to separate, but would continue to communicate for the sake of their daughter, 14-year-old Ksenia.
As Alena said, she and her husband were different people, and recently the artist increasingly began to catch herself thinking that she was annoyed by some moments in their relationship. Sometimes the singer could not fulfill her husband’s requests, as she was focused on work, which was much more important.
“Purely biologically, everything was over, I felt it. And I’m not ready to wear this “corpse” that used to be love like in a mausoleum. Love is a thing that must work on both sides. When one side is constantly waiting for something and acts only as a recipient, observer and pointer, this does not work, then some other schemes develop. It would seem that 25 years have passed together, nothing more can happen... But it happened,” admitted Alena.
The star of the 90s did not hide the fact that she broke up with Alexander, and wrote a frank post on a social network, which caused a wide resonance. All the journalists were trying to figure out what caused the collapse of the star’s marriage, and her phone was ringing off the hook with calls. Apina was nervous and afraid that this whole situation would affect her daughter’s psyche.
Alexander did not understand the action of his ex-wife. He was unhappy that the singer made public the problems in their family.
“Now Sasha is terribly offended by me, considers it a betrayal that I decided to divorce, and even made a public statement. But if I hadn't done it, then what would it have been? Some kind of game. She deliberately cut off all the ends in order to understand herself and us. We still communicate, but he said that melodramatic sniveling in the spirit of “we will remain friends” only happens in the movies. I heard the man,” said Apina.
After breaking up with her husband, the artist realized her wildest plans. Alena released the song “Closeness,” written in her own words, which was strikingly different from the artist’s other compositions. And after some time, the star shot a provocative video, where she appeared in racy outfits and lingerie. Apina is very optimistic, as she believes that positive changes await her in the future.
“With a divorce, space is freed up in the head for something more important and necessary. And loneliness doesn’t scare me at all. In general, I’m an introvert in life; if I don’t spend time with myself for a while, I start to experience withdrawal symptoms and feel uncomfortable. And with my work, I will never be lonely, because constant communication, some new acquaintances that will never allow you to fully understand the negative side of loneliness,” Alena explained in an interview "Antenna-telesem".
It's kind of sad.
52-year-old singer Alena Apina filed for divorce. Her husband, 59-year-old producer Alexander Iratov, according to the singer, was against separation after 25 years of marriage.
Now Apina is going through a difficult period in her life. She wants to devote all her strength to ensuring that her daughter Ksenia does not suffer from her parents’ divorce. Today the singer published a post on her microblog in which she herself spoke about the reasons for her divorce from her husband.
Yes, I'm filing for divorce. This period of my life is coming to an end. It was very big and for many of you very beautiful. But life is much wiser than many of us. Alexander and I do not have any homewreckers and there is no big global reason for this step. It's just time. Thank you all for your participation and excitement. And try to discuss it less. Today the most important thing is to cause as little problems as possible for our daughter. Everything else cannot be changed. And life doesn’t end there,” Alena wrote.
That is the case when everything that happens around (your discussions, judgments, assumptions, etc.) has no meaning or meaning. All the fuss you are making goes only one way - to our daughter! She is only 14. All the “who is to blame”, why, why, and so on, make no sense! And they won’t cancel the fact itself,” added Alena.
Alena Apina is very close to her daughter. At one time, she got a job at the school where Ksenia studied in order to be closer to her.
The girl studies at the Odintsovo gymnasium, where her mother works as a music teacher.
Alena Apina has decided everything for herself and is not going to go back. According to rumors, a new hobby of one of the spouses is involved in the separation of the couple, but the artist denies everything: “Neither I nor Sasha met a new love. Time and accumulated fatigue from each other are to blame. All points of contact have disappeared, interests have become different. At some point I realized that separation was inevitable.”
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Alena does not despair and hopes to meet in the future someone with whom she will be interested: “I know for sure that both he and I have only the best ahead. I am optimistic about the future, I still write music, plays for children, and stage performances. I’m interested in everything!”
The young singer, who was under the care of Alexander Iratov, did not get into “The Voice” due to a spinal injury
The former soloist of the group “Combination” Alena APINA (nee LEVOCHKINA), who gained popularity in the dashing 90s with such hits as “Accountant”, “Ksyusha”, “Knots” and “Electric Train”, unexpectedly found herself in the center of everyone’s attention. The existence of the artist was prompted by rumors spreading on the Internet about her divorce from producer Alexander IRATOV, with whom she had been happily married for 25 years.
WITH Sasha Iratov I was introduced in the late 80s in the Sochi “Pearl” by my old friend Valerka Spiritus nicknamed Alcohol, with whom we once speculated on musical equipment,” recalled the organizer of corporate events Konstantin Shcherbinin. “You know, I’m now done with all the old things,” he told me. “But I’ll introduce you to speculator number one.”
And he led me to a dude with a chain two fingers thick and a huge cross on his stomach, like a priest or a thief in law. This was Sasha Iratov. He worked as a director Slava Malezhik. He made a lot of money at left-wing concerts. And invested them in “business”. “Well, what do you have there?” - he reluctantly began the conversation. And at that time, miners began to go on strike throughout the country, and in order to calm them down, a decree was signed allowing them to conduct free trade.
Cars, televisions, refrigerators, washing machines and other goods fell to us in Kuzbass like manna from heaven. The miners were given coupons for their purchase. But they were afraid that they would be robbed or cheated. And they brought these coupons to me. And I bought goods and took them to other cities.
I offered these goods to Iratov. “Do you have any white nines?” - he asked. At that time it was considered a cool car. “Yes,” I replied. "What is the price?" - Iratov became interested. Then the price of the “nine” was 35 thousand rubles. But I thought that he was very arrogant. And he told him a higher price - 40 thousand. For this money you could then buy an apartment.
I thought that Iratov would bargain. But he immediately said: “Let me give you 42 thousand! But so that in a week, when I return to Moscow, the car will already be there.” This is how my collaboration with him began.
I sent him various goods by cargo planes. Iratov sold them and brought me money in bags. At that time, he still lived with his first wife - the mother of his son Andrei. Alena Apina appeared in his life only in the early 90s. I remember that after a long absence I arrived in Moscow, and he stunned me with the news: “Have you heard the song “Ksyusha, Ksyusha, plush skirt”? This is my new wife!
IRATOV and APINA have long gained a reputation as almost an exemplary family, so Alena’s announcement about their divorce came as a bolt from the blue for many. Photo: Instagram.com
Someone else's secret
Alena is a very smart, educated person,” said the author of many hits “Combinations” and Apina, the composer Vitaly Okorokov. - I studied at the conservatory. Which of our singers knows music Prokofiev? And she can play you all his sonatas, all his symphonies. I know Alena very well. She and I grew up together since childhood. We had our first “carrot love”. Well, you know what happens when you're 15 years old.
Then she married an artist Valeria Apina. They wanted children. But they didn't succeed. I know what the reason was. But I have no right to reveal someone else’s secret. I can only say that these are purely women's affairs. There are some diseases with which nothing can be done. Even artificial insemination does not help. As a result, Apin left Alena.
In “Combination” she was a little lonely and lost. I wanted love, big and pure. I met Iratov, who gave us tours. And he took her away from the group.
Naturally, she wanted to work solo. In any group, everyone secretly wants to have a solo career. I then gave her the song “Ksyusha”. This song made her a star.
In principle, you could take any Manya Siskina or Shura Murina, invest some money in broadcasting this song, and it would become a hit. I didn’t understand this then. And Iratov immediately realized that this might be his only chance in life.
I remember he listened to “Ksyusha” and said to me: “So, Okorokov! Don’t show this song to anyone and don’t tell anyone that it exists.” The arrangement was loaded that same night. And two days later the video was ready. The recording of the song and the shooting of the video went on simultaneously. I have never seen anything like this anywhere else. I simply bow to Iratov for how quickly he worked.
"Life is wiser than us"
For a quarter of a century, they tried to separate Apina and Iratov more than once. Then Alena was credited with an affair with the singer Murat Nasyrov, with whom she performed the song “Moonlit Nights” in a duet. Then Alexander was declared the actress’s lover Renata Piotrowski, who starred with him in the film company “Igla” in the series “Girl from the North”. But the star couple did not even think about breaking up.
Moreover, despite the above-mentioned medical problems of Apina, in 2001 she and Iratov had a child together - daughter Ksenia, who was carried by a surrogate mother. One would think that the current divorce rumors are just another hoax,” if the singer herself had not confirmed them.
Yes, I’m filing for divorce,” Apina wrote on her Instagram page. - This period of my life is coming to an end. It was very big and for many of you very beautiful. But life is much wiser than many of us. Alexander and I do not have any homewreckers and there is no big global reason for this step. It's just time. Thank you all for your participation and excitement. And try to discuss it less. Today the most important thing is to cause as little problems as possible for our daughter. Everything else cannot be changed. And life doesn’t end there.
In truth, this post raised many more questions for everyone than it answered. One could not help but get the impression that Alena was being dark and was not telling something.
An appeal to long-time acquaintances of the star couple did not clarify the situation. Even for them, the singer’s sensational confession came as a complete surprise.
“I don’t know anything about the reasons for Apina and Iratov’s divorce,” the producer threw up his hands. Alexey Muskatin. - We have known Sasha since the days of our “troubled youth”. But like many of our generation, he has long been nowhere to be seen or heard. The last time we met was several years ago. He then took care of a young girl. And at our studio they wanted to make a musical project out of it. We studied vocals, dances, etc. with her. No, no, she was not Iratov’s mistress.
Only for big money
It was just the daughter of some of Alexander’s acquaintances,” Muscatin continues. - Sasha’s son from his first marriage, Andrei, constantly came to classes with her. He made sure that she was not offended. Unfortunately, all this did not end in anything. In principle, the girl sang well. But it was something average. On the second Zemfira she didn't hesitate. And we have always placed fairly high professional demands on our students. If something didn’t work out, they said directly: “You don’t sing, you quack. Why do you even need to sing? This is not your profession." The girl, apparently, could not stand it and eventually left us. Then I called her. I wanted to send her to “The Voice” or to the “Main Stage”. But it turned out that she went somewhere on vacation and injured her spine.
And Iratov, as I understand it, moved to Spain and recently lived almost constantly in this country. I tried to make a movie there several times: some were successful, some were unsuccessful. And with Apina, his son Andrei went to concerts as a director. As for their divorce... It's all very strange. Sashka is already a grandfather. He and Alena have a daughter. I don't understand why they should get a divorce. Maybe, of course, Apina decided to remind herself in this way. But, by and large, she doesn’t really need it. Her songs are already played on the radio. And if tomorrow she wants to go on tour, I think it won’t be difficult for her to gather an audience. Only she doesn't want to tour. This summer I met her at an event in Dolgoprudny. “When they give me a lot of money, I come,” said Alena. “But I’m not interested in working for pennies.”
Tired of each other
If something happened between Lena and Sasha, then, apparently, quite recently, the singer and composer suggested Andrey Kosinsky, who wrote “Glass of Seeds” and other songs for Apina. - Two years ago we went to the Spanish city of Marbella for Lena’s 50th birthday, where they bought a house (which of the stars still have real estate in Spain - read on). And Sasha then organized all her anniversary celebrations. It was such a blast that words cannot describe it. He was also present at her last birthday, which she celebrated on August 23 at her home in Peredelkino. And there seemed to be no signs that anything was wrong in their family.
On the contrary, they spoke very good words about each other. “I owe everything that is in my life to Sasha,” Lena emphasized. Maybe they're just tired of each other. Maybe there was no longer the same spark between them. As far as I know, Sasha has long stopped producing Lena as before. She got a job as a music teacher at school. I helped her make a musical based on Beatles songs with her students.
I find it difficult to even answer where Sasha worked these years. According to the latest information that reached me, he ran the concert hall at the Cosmos Hotel. Once I approached him with a proposal to write a new song for Lena. “No, no, no, I don’t do this anymore,” Sasha waved it off. “I am a statesman.” Yes, Sasha’s son helps her with concerts. But in fact, Lena has been living on her own for a long time and rules everything on her own.
At the end of last year, the singer announced that she was divorcing her husband, producer Alexander Iratov, after 25 years of marriage. And at the beginning of the new year she amazed fans with the video “Closeness”, in which she starred in beautiful underwear. What's going on in Alena's life now?
In the fall, my friends and I went horseback riding. True, I didn’t ride, but wandered around the boarding house near the equestrian club, where there was an exhibition of children’s drawings. Horses, foals, endless fields... Amazing work! All are drawn by girls. Now go to an art gallery. Are there many women's names there? It’s not a fact that life is to blame; they ruined themselves. Someone once came up with a stereotype that a woman should stay at home, be married, no matter for good or bad, as long as she is with her husband, with children. And we diligently compact our life into these frameworks: the kitchen, borscht, socks, which every day kill inside us that girl who draws pictures, sings or dances. Oh, I have a feeling that some guys would want to shoot me now...
Have you ever thought that there are only 52 weeks in a year? I recently announced this figure to myself and was horrified. They fly so fast, like bullets, once it’s Friday, you blink and it’s Friday again, you don’t have time to do anything. I know a lot of women who toil, can’t find a place for themselves, they have such rock and roll going on inside them, but they don’t know what to do, they feel uncomfortable, ashamed, they say, where am I going to go at 50, they’ll say: “You fool.” " First of all, try it. It’s a shame to kill in ourselves what nature has given us, this is a crime against ourselves. And there is no shame in trying to become happy. I understand that I am making a serious appeal, but I know what I am talking about.
Love has to work both ways
I’m not yet ready to talk about divorce in a way that would be interesting to both me and you, I think that time will come, but one thing I can say is that I’ve been preparing for this step for a long time. You see, eternal love does not exist in nature; it must transform into some other states: family relationships, friendships, and so on. And we had a constant rivalry. It's not like we're trying to figure out who's boss. But I always felt that I had to be able to maneuver, give in, take steps that were incompatible with my desires. For example, I urgently need to finish a piece of a song, my husband and I are in Spain, and my musicians and arrangers are in Moscow, and I need to contact them right now. I close the door, sit down at the piano, computer, and the rest doesn’t matter. For me the music beats 22 Spain in good weather. And Sasha says to me: “Let’s go to a restaurant.” I answer: “I don’t want to.” “Whether you want it or not, you have to. I’m not an orphan, I’m with my wife.” Well, one, two, three, you’ll put your own affairs aside. And the thought is spinning in your head that you are doing some kind of nonsense.
Even then I realized that sooner or later we would come to a divorce. Purely biologically everything was over, I felt it. And I’m not ready to wear this “corpse” that used to be love like in a mausoleum. Love is a thing that must work on both sides. When one side is constantly waiting for something and acts only as a recipient, observer and pointer, this does not work, then some other schemes develop. It would seem that 25 years have passed together, nothing more can happen... But it happened.
Another reason is that Sasha looks very good, many women like her, and like a peacock she loves to straighten her feathers. When a pretty woman is next to him, his eyes light up. This is fine. But don't sparkle at me. You somehow direct your sparks in a different direction so that they don’t burn or smoke in my direction, try to come up with something.
Now Sasha is terribly offended by me, considers it a betrayal that I decided to divorce, and even made a public statement. But if I hadn't done it, then what would it have been? Some kind of game. She deliberately cut off all the ends in order to understand herself and us. We still communicate, but he said that melodramatic sniveling in the spirit of “we will remain friends” only happens in the movies. I heard the man.
I think that my husband looks so beautiful at 59 years old that some woman could easily appear next to him who would like all this. You can’t even think about putting up gravestones, like, I’m so old that it’s too late to start something again. No, friends, it happens like this and sometimes that. Moreover, for a man, years are not yet so important, this should become a problem for me - I’m 52. People associate these numbers with some gloomy aunt, but I’ll tell you a secret: as my favorite writer Victoria Tokareva said, age does not exist.
Only in my passport I am 52 years old. And inside, as it was, 17!
The theme of love in a woman’s life should be until the grave, with some kind of chemistry happening around you simply because you were born a woman. If this is not the case, then the day has passed in vain and you can go to the churchyard right now. This does not mean that you need to fall in love with someone every day, it is the desire to evoke some kind of emotion in the opposite sex. And this state of love must be cultivated in oneself. As soon as I realized this, metamorphoses began to happen to me. If I used to go to the shops, no one would come up to me, they thought she probably looked like Apina, but it’s unlikely she, she doesn’t go grocery shopping. And after I caught myself thinking that you should constantly keep the wick inside yourself, strangers began to smile at me, be attentive, and help me. In one store I somehow got carried away and took more than I needed into my small basket. I stand and think: “God, how am I going to finish all this?” And suddenly a man rolls a large cart towards me, for which, by the way, I have to pay a nickel or ten – I don’t remember. An elementary sign of attention, and the woman seems to be plugged into an outlet, she begins to work, sparkle, create, begins to be a woman in order to please, decorate, create, and further on the list we list all the beautiful verbs.
Guys, let me remind you that there are only 52 weeks in a year. Just voice this figure to yourself and let’s live with some other interests. Of course, for some it is more important to stand at the stove and call your girlfriend with the story: “I’m fine, like everyone else. I cooked cabbage soup, washed everything, now mine will come home from work.” And such rubbish all day long. Perhaps people enjoy it. It's their choice. Please. But everyone doesn't have to do it.
In the summer, I performed at a nightclub, where I invited my 55-year-old girlfriend, and she took her 60-year-old girlfriends with her. They had never been to a nightclub in their lives and did not even understand what it was. First of all, we dressed up like girls there, and it was wonderful. I say this as if assessing from the outside, because I don’t feel like I’m their same age, they look at me as a representative of the younger generation and repeat something after me. So you have no idea what happened to them. In the morning they came into my dressing room, and they were completely different women, like 60, she wasn’t even 30 that night! “I met such an interesting person,” says one. The other one couldn’t feel her legs from dancing.
So my passport says I’m 52 years old, but inside I was 17 and had the feeling of rock and roll, but nothing has changed yet. Therefore, on the face it turns out to be 30-33. On the one hand, maybe this is bad, all my life I told myself: I need to grow up, and then suddenly I decided: screw it all! My rock and roll is the right aesthetics, it is eccentricity, some whims, unpredictable things, outbursts, smiles, emotions, this is life.
There is no age!
In nature, everything is reborn, a lizard’s tail falls off, a snake’s skin changes, a cat begins its ninth life. It's the same with people. For some it comes earlier, for others later. This must be achieved biologically. It came to me at 52 years old.
I am completely satisfied with my reflection in the mirror today. I finally like myself! I had a lot of complexes as a child, then some “but here”s constantly arose, now they have all fallen off. This was given to me through hard work. I have not seen any women who were not frightened by death, old age, or changes in the mirror. These are healthy fears, you can’t do anything about them, you have to live with them somehow. And for this to happen, some period of time must pass. You cannot say: “This is all nonsense.” It's not nonsense. You approach the mirror and realize that no one has canceled the law of attraction: your cheeks have crawled, your forehead has wrinkled, your hair is on your comb - you see and understand all this perfectly. You can't be happy about it. No reason. Any sane person understands: “That’s all.” Here you need to learn to be friends with yourself. And when you come to the realization that age does not exist, it will be as if you have emerged from a dark forest into a green clearing. “Lord, I’ve arrived, hurray, it must be a holiday,” you think to yourself. You understand that you are already different, something right has happened.
This happened to me thanks to things I did consciously. To feel good and look good, you need to exercise. This time. If you have chosen a public profession, you do not have the right to appear in front of people who have entrusted you with their feelings in an ugly manner. The screen adds eight kilograms. When people meet me at the airport, they exclaim: “Oh, how skinny you are, we thought...” They have the idea that Apina is such a woman, tall, curvy, but no, I’m small and quite fragile. Due to the fact that I regularly train with five-time world pentathlon champion Irina Kiseleva, few people know her, although she worked with our tennis players, for example, with Lena Vesnina. Plus tennis. And recently I started doing exercises on the street under the supervision of a neighbor-trainer. In any weather, even at minus 30, we go for a run with him, during which he can say: “Okay, stop, I fell into the plank, squatted, and did push-ups.”
Loneliness doesn't scare me
Secondly, you must constantly look at what is happening around you. Unfortunately, fans have a hard time accepting anything new. For them, my songs are part of their life; they fell in love with them, broke up, laughed and cried. These people live on memories because they have no one to turn to. Young people have different rhythms, genres, thoughts, but they don’t want to see their idols in a new version. But for an artist, life goes on. For me, the option of being a “canned food” is unacceptable, I can’t even walk slowly and it’s always hard for the people around me.
All my life I wanted to sing slightly different music, but some people and circumstances always stood above me, then success came, I didn’t want to lose it. How to get up on the ski track and go. Of course, it was a wonderful period, this is my life, those songs are part of me, like an arm and a leg. But now I am completely different inside - this is one hundred percent, and I see it in the mirror.
Before, I couldn’t even imagine that I could take rejections lightly, I’m a creative person, we don’t know how to live any other way. I always wrote songs, and I sincerely believed that it was no worse than what was heard on the radio. But for the hundredth time they told me: “Well, that’s not it, something is missing.” At the moment I am so free from these doubts, I don’t care so much whether they will take me into rotation, on TV or not. Don't like it? Your problems. I was so hardened by this constant “no, no, no” that I became indifferent. And this is such freedom, such ease and depth of immersion in the business that you want.
You know, with a divorce, space is freed up in the head for something more important and necessary. And loneliness doesn’t scare me at all. In general, I’m an introvert in life; if I don’t spend time with myself for a while, I start to experience withdrawal symptoms and feel uncomfortable. And even with my work, I will never be lonely, because constant communication, some new acquaintances that will never allow you to fully understand the negative side of loneliness. Whatever one may say, there is a lot of bad and a lot of beauty in it. So I’m not afraid yet, maybe it will be scary in the future. While I have something to do and what I do requires solitude.
Intimacy is the highest degree of communication
All my new texts are a little strange. For example, in “Closerness” there is a line “We are flowing - mine into yours,” then a couple of friends stood up to me with an ax over my head and said: “Alena, well, this is porn.” I was surprised: “Are you idiots?” What if we flow views, thoughts, energies, feelings? It’s your problem that you see in this clip the vulgar erotica of an old woman and she needs some guy. No, comrades, this is a song about the love of an adult woman.
I composed it on a flight from Israel. I really liked the word “intimacy”, I kept turning it around in my head, and then I looked into the dictionary and read all sorts of wisdom about it. I liked the phrase that intimacy is the highest degree of human communication. Love can be different: for the homeland, for a dog, the first, the last. But you can’t attach anything to intimacy; it either exists or it doesn’t.
Do I want to experience it? I experience it every day. From the feeling of life that I now have, from the joys that have fallen, from the looks that I catch on myself and experience true pleasure. Don’t look for specifics: she met him and they went to the registry office - God forbid! At my age, or better yet, in my position, this is not necessary at all. I have missed out on so much over the years... Of course, there were a lot of good things, pleasant discoveries, but along this path I hit a wall and realized that there was nowhere to go further. Now I’m going in the other direction, while I’m getting used to it, I’ll see what’s going on, I’ll tell you later.
About a month ago, singer Alena Apina announced on her social network page that she was divorcing her husband Alexander Iratov after 25 years of marriage. “Life is much wiser than many of us. Alexander and I do not have any homewreckers and there is no big global reason for this step. It’s just time,” the 90s star explained her decision. However, fans and some friends of the ex-soloist of the “Combination” group claim that the woman could be hiding real family relationships.
In the “Live Broadcast” program, Boris Korchevnikov decided to discuss what caused the discord in the artist’s family. The guest in the studio was Natalya Sturm, a friend of the singer. In addition, viewers were shown fragments from a 2011 program, where Apina and Iratov talked about family life and how they met. The artist and producer met for the first time at a festival in Tashkent, where “Combination” performed.
The life of show business representatives was not easy. Apina admitted that she cared for her husband for three years. The initiative to celebrate the wedding also came from her. As Natalya Sturm noted, her friend knew how difficult it would be to live with a producer, around whom talented women often appeared.
“Alena is a wonderful person, with such patience. It’s very, very difficult to stand up to a producer. Because the producers are all psychopaths, neurotics and everyone is on an external wave,” Sturm noted.
The guests present in the studio noted that Natalya was not saying something. In addition, in some interviews Iratov said: “We break up with each other, give personal space, that’s why the marriage lasts so long.” According to experts, when spouses agree on this, it already leads to discord in the family.
Alena Apina wrote that there are no homewreckers, is this true or not? – Boris Korchevnikov asked Natalya a question.
Are you asking me this? I definitely have nothing to do with this.
- Was Iratov really unfaithful to her? You told me backstage...
"I don't know. I do not rule out that the producer could have been looking for something, found it, or lost it. Throughout their career, they have so many temptations and so many women who want to have something with him... This may not be in the nature of betrayal, it may be in the nature of a process,” Natalya noted.
By the way, Apina also divorced her first husband. Now they don't communicate. Valery Arvidovich Apin lives in Saratov, where Alena was born, and works at an art school. She did not give up her last name even when she separated from her husband, because that is how her listeners remembered her.
Apina’s friend Vitaly Okorokov, who was in love with her, appeared on the air of the program. He noted that he was shocked by this news. “They couldn’t have achieved anything without each other. It was he who “set” the song “Ksyusha,” the man recalled. Okorokov remembers Alena with kindness. According to him, he was amazed by the artist. “She is a very smart woman, very educated,” noted Vitaly, who at one time invited her to the “Combination” group.
