Last month Aliya Mustafina announced her divorce from Alexei Zaitsev on Instagram and said that she would not give any additional information besides what was already written in the post. However, her father, Fargat Mustafin, recently agreed to talk to a Russian tabloid EG.ru.
Q: Fargat, what happened? Why did your daughter file for divorce?
A: Ah, both are fooling around. They all feel like they’re immortal, like the sky is the limit! And with their strong personalities. Aliya says that her love for him has passed.
Q: So, she fell out of love, then? That was pretty fast.
A: Lyoshka is a normal guy, with ambitions. He’s stupid according to his age. He’s 24 years old. He can be irreverent. For example, he can easily pat me on the shoulder approvingly.
Q: Really?
A: Kind of informality, fraternization. He does it without any bad intentions. And generally, he’s a good young man. You know I was against them splitting up. Aliya and Lyoshka have been living separately for half a year already. My daughter didn’t want to make it public. She’s only recently announced it on Instagram.
Q: Did you try to talk Aliya out of it?
A: The whole family sat together – me, my wife Elena Anatolyevna and the two of them. We were thinking what to do. Because what is it – you make a baby and then split up? Lyoshka wanted to keep the family together. But Aliya stood her ground – no way. She’s stubborn, she always stands her ground. I guess he hurt her in some way. I was telling him: “You’re a man, learn how to communicate to your wife”. So that she would understand you”. But it’s useless to try teaching them life lessons. I don’t understand a thing about life myself, after all!
Q: Does the young dad visit his daughter?
A: Of course. Alisa is still very young. She’ll only be one year old on June 9th. Lyoshka comes to Moscow, to Alisa after his training camps. He’s playing with her, bringing gifts. In this regard, nothing has changed.
Q: Do you know his parents well?
A: We’re still in touch with them. Lyoshka’s parents are a happy family, he didn’t have bad marriage examples in front of him. His mom is also a teacher, like my wife. They’re from Krasnodar region, from stanitsa Starotatarovskaya. They are also worried about their dummy.
Q: Perhaps, your ex-son-in-law did something bad at some training camp? Did some skirt-chasing?
A: Who the hell knows! I don’t get into it. Young guys nowadays are thinking with their dicks. Where their penis turns, they follow. I think my daughter rushed with the wedding too much. I told her: “You and Lyoshka are still kids. Why are you rushing? He’s still an active athlete, you haven’t retired either”. But Aliya’s stubborn, she wanted a baby. Let them be responsible for their own lives. We, the parents, can only help.
Q: Is your daughter secretive?
A: A bit. She rarely shares her secrets. Young people are now generally different. In our time, we did not give much thought to where to go on vacation. Somewhere close to the water, on the river, for example – that’s good enough already. But now the young ones have ambitions: “We’ve already been there, I don’t want to go. I want to go to Mallorca”. They want to show off. This spoils people. They sometimes confuse real life and a vacation.
Q: What do you mean?
A: There’s a joke. One guy, on the brink of death, asks people in heaven what will be better for him – heaven or hell. At first, he got a tour of heaven. It’s a paradise – indescribable nature, birds are singing. But the hell has bars, discos, girls walking around in sexy clothes. The guy deliberated and chose hell. But as soon as he got there, an imp with a pitchfork jumped at him and put him into a frying pan! The guy’s yelling: “What happened?! Where are the bars and the discos?” The imp replies to him: “Don’t confuse tourism and immigration”. Before creating a family, young people should understand: life together is not just all holidays, it’s also a hard daily routine.
Q: Where did Aliya and Alexei go on vacation last year?
A: I don’t remember exactly. Turkey, I think. My daughter went there pregnant already, with a big belly.
Q: And? Did everything go fine, without adventures?
A: Fine, she gave birth without issues, in our hospital #47. Alisa was born on June 9th. I thought Aliya would stay at home with her for half a year but no, she started training already in the fall. She’s alternating between training at Round Lake near Moscow and in Penza. That’s where her personal coach Sergei Starkin works.
Q: Do you often see your granddaughter?
A: Aliya is training in Penza now and on May 25th she will bring Alisa to us. In the summer, we leave Moscow and got to Nizhny Novgorod region, to Maloye Rybushkino village. We have a small cottage there. The granddaughter will spend time in the fresh air. She’s turning out pretty smart, it’s a pleasure to babysit her. And regarding Aliya and Lyoshka… Perhaps, they’ll live apart for a while and sort out their thoughts and then will get back together.
The authors of the article on EG.ru also claimed that Alexei Zaitsev cheated on Mustafina and that was the main reason for the divorce, however, they did not reveal their sources, so take that information with a grain of salt.
A local website in Penza talked to Aliya Mustafina this week asking her about her injury. Mustafina said:
” I feel fine now. Although, I’m not tumbling for now, I’m mostly conditioning. When the doctors will see the images [of the knee], we’ll correct the training plan”
On why she decided to open an Instagram account for her daughter: “That was a spontaneous decision. I don’t even know yet how I’ll develop this account but for sure there will be photos of us together, too, not just the photos of my daughter”.
Photo: Dni.ru
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I like Aliya father outlook of life. He is plain spoken. Thats is how it is in their generation. He reminds me of my father.