Efremov burned his throat with cocaine and cut his mistress’s lip
Russian artist Mikhail Efremov, who, while intoxicated with alcohol and drugs, became the culprit of a fatal traffic accident in Moscow, beat his women.
Director Valery Sergeev told Komsomolskaya Pravda about this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Misha Efremov raised his hand against women. But women loved him and tolerated everything. A memorable story is when, in a fit of anger, he threw a cup at his beloved, actress Natalya Ionova. Only because she dared to object to him, and he couldn’t stand it. The cup broke and a fragment cut the girl's lip. She was left with a scar for life,” the director recalls.
Then the actress could not stand the bullying and left the theater led by Efremov, and then the profession.
“He ruined so many lives. Many Sovremennik-2 employees passed through Misha’s bed. He was indefatigable in this regard, changing one thing after another. He accepted Asya Vorobyova with Sovremennik-2 over the bed, not disdaining that at that time she was the wife of Anton Tabakov. She gave birth to his son Nikita. And the actress Evgenia Dobrovolskaya was also accepted into the troupe of the group in the same way, she became his third wife, and also gave birth to a son.
Because of his drinking, the theater was stormy. The director of Sovremennik-2 complained to me that, having arrived on tour, Misha started drinking and, in a drunken corner, changed the stated repertoire and left the same performance on the playbill. The director grabbed his head. But it was useless to argue with Misha, otherwise he would get into a fight,” notes the publication’s interlocutor.
“He got all his wives into drinking,” says Sergeev. – Asya Vorobyova suffered from him and ran away. Just look at his third wife Evgenia Dobrovolskaya - everything is written on her face. The fourth wife, Ksenia Kachalina, is an alcoholic. The fifth wife, Sonya, endured Efremov’s drunken brawls to the last.”
Efremov’s aggressive behavior in a drunken shop is confirmed by Chekhov’s former Moscow Art Theater manager Tatyana Bronzova.
“He is not a kind person at all. Cheerful among friends. And if someone contradicts him, he may hit him. And then it is no longer clear who is in front of him - a man, a woman or an old man. He was taken to the police station more than once. By the way, he ended up in the army. He beat up an elderly veteran who reprimanded him. To prevent Misha from being sent to prison, his father sent him to the army.
Later, Efremov fired his son from the theater because he injured one person - he hit him hard in the groin. That person cannot have children. A criminal case was opened against Misha, but it was closed thanks to Oleg Efremov’s connections,” said ex-head of the Moscow Art Theater Chekhova.
According to her, Efremov regularly beat his wives, the fourth of whom, Evgenia Kachalina, introduced him to drugs.
She also told how on tour Efremov announced that he could not play and asked for a replacement.
"I ask, 'What happened?' “My throat hurts a lot. I can barely breathe.” I called the doctor. The doctor then tells me: “What a cold, he’s all burned. This is cocaine. He took too much and inhaled.” That was the first time we encountered this. I told everything to Oleg Efremov so that he would pay attention. He didn't believe me. And then he soon fired his son from the theater,” recalls Bronzova.
Let us recall that on the evening of June 8, in the center of Moscow, Efremov lost control of his SUV, flew into the oncoming lane and crashed into a Lada van driven by the courier of the Delikateska.ru company, Sergei Zakharov, who later died in the hospital. The examination showed that Efremov was in a state of severe intoxication. Tests also showed the presence of cocaine and marijuana in his blood.
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