The May-December romance between Rolling Stone Ron Wood and Ekaterina Ivanova appears to be over following his arrest for assault earlier this month. Now the 20-year-old Russian barmaid is telling her side of the story to Hello! Magazine, and it’s not a pretty one. “The whole thing started off like a fairy tale. But then it felt like an evil fairy tale, when Ronnie and I moved into a tower, my friends were laughing and saying I was like the princess trapped in the tower. He went all Jekyll and Hyde. I’d be trapped there with an evil Goblin King.” While admitting their relationship began on a boozer, Ivanova claims she eventually grew tired of the rehab veteran.
I just don’t think he could handle [drinking] so well. Even if he wasn’t nasty, he would start repeating the same jokes and I found them really irritating. When we first met, I drank a lot but then I just couldn’t keep up. He would sit there and drink and I wouldn’t feel the need to. I would say, “You can carry on drinking, but all you are doing is pushing me away.” We would have the best nights out, then I would know when to stop and he wouldn’t. You need to be really strong to live with someone like that. I am strong but I can’t be bothered. I grew out of him. I just thought, what’s the point of being with an older man if he acts about 12?
Her protestations about the term “
gold digger” aside, the point may have been to live in a castle with a multi-millionaire rocker instead of your mom’s council estate—where Ivanova is now. Despite the forced return to no-frills living, “[sitting] at home, [lighting] scented candles, [watching] TV, and [ordering] clothes on the internet” with the aging troublemaker has apparently lost its appeal. Will this drama be the wake up call he needs, or will Wood’s descent continue? And will we ever hear from Ekaterina again now that they’re over?
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