What happened to the singer Valentina Legkostupova, who ended up in a hospital bed in a coma

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

In early August 2020, the famous singer Valentina Legkostupova was found in her apartment by a daughter with a severe head injury. The performer of the hit "Berry-Raspberry" considers herself a happy person, she knows how to remember the good and forget the bad. On her way were victories and defeats, great love and betrayal. But she was an optimist and never gave up. And today she is in a coma, and doctors have to fight for her life.

From dream to glory

Valentina Legkostupova was born into a musical family. Her father Valery Vladimirovich was a composer, her mother Galina Ivanovna was a performer of folk songs. Little Valya began to sing much earlier than she learned to speak and then always knew: she would become a famous singer. True, the dad of the future star believed that the girl must have a fallback.

He talked to his daughter and invited her, in addition to vocals, to master some musical instrument. Valery Vladimirovich thought for the future, considering: if Valentina suddenly lost her voice, she could go to work as a teacher at a music school at any time. The girl chose the simplest, as it seemed to her then, instrument - a violin. True, already while studying at a music school, and then at school, she realized that she had chosen the most difficult one.

After graduating from the Simferopol Music School, Valentina Legkostupova entered the legendary Gnesinka, the pop vocal department, where Joseph Kobzon himself became her teacher and mentor. At the age of 17, she already performed with a solo jazz program, and Raymond Pauls, sensing talent in the young performer, took over her patronage and began to write songs for her. And then Vyacheslav Dobrynin invited her to perform "Berry-Raspberry", which glorified the singer throughout the country and became her calling card.

After that she sang a few more songs that became real hits, and literally at the peak of fame suddenly disappeared. There were many different rumors about her disappearance that Alla Pugacheva had a negative influence on her career. Valentina Legkostupova herself admitted that the birth of her beloved daughter Annette, whom she named after the daughter of Raymond Pauls, played a big role in her interrupted career.

Stepping over the betrayal

Valentina Legkostupova met her first love while studying at the Simferopol Music School. In her student years, she still sang in a jazz orchestra at the Palace of Culture, where her future husband played percussion. He was 16 years older than the girl and at the same time looked very much like Belmondo. Valentina fell in love and without a single doubt married the musician.

True, this marriage broke up soon after Annette was born. The reason for the divorce was the spouse's infidelity.

The singer experienced her husband's betrayal very calmly. All her thoughts were occupied by the baby. The birth was very difficult, the singer almost died during childbirth, the doctors saved her for several hours. After that, she devoted herself entirely to her daughter, and when it came time to get out of the decree, she found that she was now living in another country.

Valentina Legkostupova difficult to adapt to a new life with her advertising companies, producers, commercial contracts. That is why the singer did not appear on the air very often and gave concerts. But she, as her wise dad once predicted, took up teaching. True, she teaches novice artists not to play the violin, but to sing.

Happiness or mistake

With her second husband Alexei Grigoriev, the son of the famous imitator and master of the spoken genre, Yuri Grigoriev, the singer was familiar long before they had an affair. He was organizing concerts, and gradually business relations became romantic.

For the sake of Valentina Legkostupova, Alexey Grigoriev left the family. Their marriage lasted more than 20 years, a son, Matvey, was born in the family. In 2014, the singer moved with her family to the island of Tenerife and lived there for three years in her own villa.

But this marriage also fell apart. As Valentina Valerievna herself admitted, she “made the wrong door”. The husband did not develop a relationship with her daughter Annette at all, and he did not bother himself especially raising his son. Valentina Legkostupova long endured the occasional pastime of her husband with a bottle of alcohol and his dissatisfaction with her daughter.

Alexey Grigoriev was the producer of his own wife, but in this field he did not particularly succeed. The singer tried to ignore the troubles for a long time, but at some point her patience ran out, and Valentina Valerievna filed for divorce.

Tragic august

The singer met her third husband, yachtsman Yuri Firsov, on a social network. He repeatedly invited her to take part in the regatta, and Valentina Valerievna always tactfully refused. But once she decided to accept Yuri Firsov's offer, she flew to Turkey and, barely seeing her acquaintance on social networks, immediately realized that this person was her mirror image. They were very similar, and this, according to the singer, was love at first sight.

In the summer of 2020, the singer became the wife of Yuri Firsov, and in early August, Valentina Legkostupova's daughter Annette sounded the alarm. Mom stopped communicating, and the girl, who had been living separately with her family for a long time, decided to visit Valentina Valerievna at her house. When she entered the apartment, she found her mother and her husband intoxicated, only her mother had a serious head injury.

Annette called an ambulance, and three days later, Valentina Legkostupova's condition deteriorated rapidly in the hospital. She was transferred to another clinic, where she underwent an operation to remove the hematoma. There are no improvements yet, the singer is in a coma and is connected to a ventilator.

On the fact of the injuries received, an investigation was started, which has so far established: the performer, most likely, fell from a height of her own height and hit her head, but the full check has not yet been completed. Some media outlets accused Yuri Firsov of beating his wife, but the investigation did not confirm this.

But something else turned out: the spouses in the last couple of weeks were too carried away by alcoholic beverages. Yuri Firsov claims that his wife drank too much and just fell in the bathroom. At the same time, he could not even name the exact date when the singer was injured. The son and daughter of Valentina Legkostupova are considered guilty of the injury of the third husband of the mother. Even if he did not raise his hand to his wife, it was in his company that the singer suddenly became interested in alcohol and ceased to control herself.

Valentina Legkostupova does not agree that Alla Pugacheva played a negative role in her fate, with whom the singer was not even familiar. On the contrary, she considers the prima donna a great singer and treats her with great respect. Today Alla Borisovna is in her fifth marriage, and even she herself finds it difficult to count all her novels and hobbies.