Mistakes of Igor Vernik's youth: What does a famous actor with a reputation for womanizer and gentle soul regret?

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

His filmography includes more than a hundred movie roles, he often appears as a television presenter, spent several seasons of the One to One show, and for almost 35 years he has been playing on the stage of the Chekhov Moscow Art Theater. For Igor Vernik, the fame of a womanizer was firmly entrenched, he is credited with novels with the most beautiful and famous women. And he dreamed of the same strong family that his parents had, and at the same time made many mistakes in his youth, which he still regrets.

Originally from childhood

He was born in 1963, literally 15 minutes ahead of his brother Vadim. Then, until the very end of school, they practically did not part, but at the same time they were very different. Parents did everything to make their children grow up in love and awareness of the fact that the family is a place where they will always be understood, supported and forgiven.

Father Emil Grigorievich worked as a radio director. The whole family gathered almost every day in the kitchen near the receiver, and together they listened to their father's radio shows. It was an incredible feeling of theatrical magic and the simultaneous unity of children and parents. Mom Anna Pavlovna was a lawyer by education, but at the same time a teacher of a music school, so from childhood she taught children to play the piano.

Parents literally idolized each other, and even in his youth Igor began to dream of the same strong family in which the husband and wife would always look in the same direction. Maybe that's why he got married so early.

Deceived hopes

He had known Margarita from the age of sixteen, but serious relations between the young people began when Igor Vernik was already in his fourth year at the Moscow Art Theater School. By that time, Margarita had already managed to be married, separated from her husband, and alone raised her one-year-old son Ilya.

According to the actor, these were real serious feelings. His parents, of course, were not too happy about the prospect of such an early marriage of their son, and even a woman with a child. The father repeatedly asked Igor a question whether the son was sure of his feelings. But Igor loved, was happy and hoped to live with his Margarita all his life. Parents reacted with respect to the choice of their son and were able not only to accept, but also to love his wife.

Igor Vernik was aware of his responsibility for the family, so he did everything so that his wife and her son did not need anything. He had an amazing relationship with Ilyusha, he played with the baby with pleasure, told him fairy tales for the night, which he composed on the go.

Only on one issue, the spouses did not find mutual understanding. Margarita really wanted to have children, and Igor believed that he was not too ready to increase the family. For a start, he wanted to get on his feet, achieve something in the profession, purchase housing, and not rent rooms in remote areas of the capital. At his insistence, his wife terminated several pregnancies. And then she just left him.

Their family lasted only six years, and after that Igor Vernik came to his senses for a long time. It seemed to him that his life was completely ruined, and he would never meet a woman like Rita again. He wrote poetry, suffered and could not get out of the darkness into which he plunged. Now he sincerely regrets his unwillingness to have children. He considers his decision to be his biggest mistake in life. His whole life could have turned out differently if he and Margarita had children.

Fatal six

Over time, he came to his senses and realized that life goes on, the world has not collapsed and we must move on. Once in the store he saw Masha and immediately thought that this particular girl would like to see next to him as his wife. But she left without paying attention to him.

Later, fate gave him another chance to meet. He saw her again in the store and, overcoming his own awkwardness and embarrassment, went to meet her. True, while he reached the center of the store, her four friends were next to Masha. Igor Vernik was not taken aback and invited all his friends to the cafe. Saying goodbye to the girls, he did not forget to take Maria's phone number and called the next day.

A week later, the young people did not part anymore, and two months later the girl told him that she was expecting a child. The birth of a son was real happiness for Igor Vernik. But the actor made an offer to his beloved when their child was already a year old.

Everything seemed to work out in his life, he had a favorite job and a strong family. True, he spent very little time at home. He had filming, touring, rehearsals, recordings on radio and television. At the same time, he was absolutely calm and confident in himself and his family. But Maria desperately missed him.

She spent her days caring for her son, but at the same time, the young woman wanted her husband to be with her. Her discontent grew, quarrels broke out in the family more and more often, and then Masha took Gregory and left. From the tour, Igor Vernik returned to an empty apartment. It seemed to him that he could still fix everything, he tried to get his family back, but Maria was just tired of her loneliness.

The actor's world collapsed for the second time. He did not want to live, he literally forced himself out of the house, in every possible way delayed the divorce. When Masha was already expecting a child from another man, it became clear: she would never return to Wernick.

The actor still considers himself to be guilty of this divorce. He has not done his part in building family relationships. At the same time, Igor Vernik was able to persuade his ex-wife to leave his son with him. Gregory did not feel the divorce of his parents, for him they remained a loving mom and dad, just not living together. Subsequently, Grisha decided to follow in his father's footsteps in the profession. Today he is studying at the Moscow Art Theater School and is already entering the theater stage with his father. They have already worked in pairs in films and in music videos more than once.

Igor Vernik and his son Gregory have a very strong spiritual connection. They always have something to talk about, and they often communicate in the evenings, discussing both daily problems and global issues, talking about love and justice, honesty and friendship. Often, Igor Vernik's father, Emil Grigorievich, who lives with his son and grandson after the death of his wife Anna Pavlovna, also talks with them.

The actor himself was very upset about his mother's departure. It seemed to him that he did not have time to say the most important words to her, to confess his love, to ask for forgiveness. Then, ten years ago, he immediately took his father to him, and they found consolation and salvation in each other.

I would like to believe that true love will still meet in the life of Igor Vernik, and he will finally be able to realize his dreams of a strong friendly family, where everyone is warm, cozy and comfortable.

Igor Vernik was born 15 minutes earlier than his brother Vadim, with whom they shared everything in two since childhood. But can the Wernick brothers, like other star twins, who have chosen similar professions, be equally talented, and is there any creative jealousy between them? What happens when one of the twins gains more popularity, while the other remains in the shadows?