Thanks to countless films he starred in, the actor Ivan Krasko became famous in Russia. Apart from his fame, his life isn't particularly glamourous anymore. He acts in a theatre and even lives at his grandson’s place.
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Nevertheless, a young actress 60 years his junior, named Natalia, decided to say 'I do'. In their wedding pictures the unequal pair look happy, though something had already cast a shadow over their marriage. Natalia’s mother didn’t attend the ceremony, as she couldn't accept her daughter’s choice.
Soon after the wedding, there was trouble in paradise. Ivan’s greatest wish was to have a child with his pretty young wife. But she had other plans: she didn’t want to hear anything about having children, nor did she want to go to bed with her husband at all. The actor refused to put up with it!
He filed for divorce and has remorsefully come back to his 41-year-old ex-wife after she wouldn't "respect her conjugal duties". They had been married for 10 years and have two sons together.
