Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood, 61, 'runs away with 18-year-old Russian cocktail waitress'

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood, 61, 'runs away with 18-year-old Russian cocktail waitress'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1034293/Rolling-Stone-Ronnie-Wood-61-runs-away-18-year-old-Russian-cocktail-waitress.html

By Alison Boshoff and Richard Simpson



Ronnie Wood has walked out on his wife and four children to live with a teenage cocktail waitress he met in an escort bar.

The 61-year-old Rolling Stones guitarist has fled to his mansion in Ireland with the 18-year- old Russian blonde.

His wife of 23 years, Jo, is said to have begged Ekaterina Ivanova not to take her husband away from her. The teenager is understood to have told friends that she replied: 'I am not taking him - he is leaving.'

A representative of Wood, who has battled a drink problem for years, said the girl began seeing him three months ago when he was at a low ebb, frazzled by alcohol. They have been together ever since.

Wood - who is drinking two bottles of vodka a day - met Miss Ivanova after the London premiere of the Stones documentary, Shine A Light, on April 2 in a seedy escort bar in Soho.

Within weeks the girl from Moscow had grown so close to Wood that she accompanied him back to the home he shares with Jo and their four children in Kingston upon Thames, South-West London.

At the beginning of May, Wood invited Miss Ivanova to join him at his mansion in Clane, County Kildare.

She has been writing about the relationship on the social networking website Facebook, calling Wood her 'boyfriend' and saying she is quickly 'falling in love'.

[MrCoffee]

1. 2 bottles of vodka a day?

Whoa

[Amerigo Vespucci]

3. Yep...that part of the story really catches the old eye.

I'm wondering "where's Ronnie's liver?" at this point...

I know that when he was in The Faces, they had a reputation as a hard-drinking band. But two bottles of vodka a day? That sounds more like a death wish than anything else.

[LynneSin]

8. That's a man I want to build a lasting relationship with

the 18-year old homewrecking tart should enjoy her 15mins of fame. Even Mandy Smith didn't last long after she turned legal.

[Midlodemocrat]

24. Whoa is right. Holy cow. He's killing himself.

[KG]

2. a 61 y.o. falling-down drunkard. oh boy, what a catch!

[NewJeffCT]

4. she's not all that attractive to me?

I mean, not bad looking... but, he's probably going to lose half of everything in his divorce now?

[LynneSin]

9. Do me a favor - down 2.5 bottles of Vodka and look at her picture again

You might think differently

[Mike Daniels]

16. I was thinking the same thing

When you're putting down 2 to 2.5 bottles of vodka a day I can't imagine that your visual focus is ever 100%. On further thought, at that rate of consumption I'd be surprised if Ron isn't seeing double at least half of his waking hours.

[LynneSin]

21. perhaps he thinks he is dating twins

:eyes:

[Rabrrrrrr]

5. How do these people drink so damned much?

If I tried to drink two bottles of vodka, I couldn't, because of a mix of time spent throwing up, and a crapload of time spent passed out/sleeping.

I don't think I could do it if I tried.

How do they stay awake long enough to drink that much? How do they keep from throwing up?

[pokerfan]

25. Tolerance

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_tolerance

[flvegan]

6. Ronnie, c'mon. You're a Stone,man!

You could've had twins!

[newmajority]

7. Who the Hell does Woody think he is?

Bill Wyman??? :evilgrin:



Seriously though..... that drinking is out of control. I thought he'd given that up. :(


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7Hx01KUAr8

[raccoon]

10. He thinks he's Bill Wyman AND Keith Richards. nt

[CBGLuthier]

11. Wife should count her blessings

Take half his money and be glad the washed up bum is gone.

To misquote from Pippin, Sometimes the fornicating you are getting isn't worth the fornicating you are getting.

[KatyaR]

26. A w00t to you, my friend, for the "Pippin" quote.

:applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause:

[mitchum]

12. Read his autobiography several weeks ago...

seems to be a pretty genial guy, but rather stupid.
Also, he has blown millions of $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ on drink, drugs and dumb investments. He will probably continue to do so (if he lives)

[Sweet Freedom]

17. You were able to read it?

:)

I've had that book since the beginning of the year and have to force myself to get through a chapter here and there. It's so badly written, I just can't finish the book. I pity his poor editor. I can only imagine how bad the book was before it was edited.

[mitchum]

22. Yes, but I have very low expectations for the quality of writing about pop music...

or writing by pop musicians :)
You are right; he is an atrocious writer.
There were some things in the book that I enjoyed:
details about just how much of a drug pig Keith Richard can be
his insistence throughout the book that,"I'm an artist! A painter like bleedin' Picasso!" It's kinda touchingly pathetic

[newmajority]

13. Poor old granddad. I laughed at all his (slurred) words....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0T_lMjPmOo

[Shell Beau]

14. Every part of that story is sad.

He doesn't have much time left if he is drinking that much daily. Wow!

[LeftinOH]

15. Now THERE'S a hit stage play begging to be written: "Gathering Moss:

The Last Days of Ronnie Wood."

[mitchum]

18. He's so shitfaced he thinks he's dating twins

[krispos42]

19. If he can still walk, they're doing it wrong!

:evilgrin:

[Sweet Freedom]

20. This is sad...

snip

The publicist said: 'She is a drinking partner. When you're an alcoholic and your family are all telling you to stop drinking you simply find someone else to drink with. You can see how it happens, you end up pushing away the ones you love because you don't think straight.

'He met her in a dodgy escort bar at four in the morning when he was boozed out of his mind. I heard she worked there, but doing what I don't know. It was a very dodgy scenario.

...'He's in a very bad way. His son Tyrone has tried to speak to him briefly, but he's not even waking up until late afternoon. He's very much spiralling.

'He's on two bottles of vodka a day and he has a size 28 waist. He's not a massive man. He's an alcoholic who has worked up his tolerance to that amount. He is in contact with Jo but until he sorts out the booze problem, it's not Ronnie. Nothing can be resolved.

/end

[tigersumtin]

23. Come on Ronnie

That ain't ROCK N ROLL, shes just a glorified groupie, and Jo is a sweet sweet mama. Maybe at 60 and 2 bottles a day you forgot how to hit and run.... Hell you probably haven't even hit it yet. Get real... Its more like stumble and puke...

[Taverner]

27. Ahhh now that's what I expect a Rolling Stone to be

Awash in excess!!!!

[trof]

28. I am SHOCKED! SHOCKED, I tell you!

[arcadian]

29. Bless his heart

n/t