In grief and joy: 5 love stories of celebrities when real feelings prolonged life

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

At the dawn of a relationship, when feelings are still bright and fresh, hardly anyone thinks about how the relationship will develop in a couple if trouble comes to the house. It's easy to be around when someone is healthy, famous, and wealthy. And not everyone is ready to devote their lives to a person who is bedridden. Our heroes, men and women, who devoted themselves to serving the highest feeling and managed to prolong the life of their halves in a situation when doctors have already thrown up their hands.

Nina Shatskaya and Leonid Filatov

They hid their romance for 12 years, and got married only after being convinced: it is simply impossible without each other. Leonid Filatov and Nina Shatskaya lived in complete harmony with each other. But the changes taking place in his native theater and in the country, Leonid Filatov always took to heart. From constant excitement, his heart began to ache, and in 1993 the actor suffered a stroke. A little later, the kidneys failed. One of them was removed. Nina Shatskaya was forced to leave her job in order to constantly be with her husband. She could not entrust his life to nurses, Leonid himself felt very bad if Nina was not around.

The actress fed her husband by the hour homemade food, at night she turned him on his side, like a small child. After all, even this Leonid Alekseevich himself could not do. Sometimes an exhausted Nina could lie down right next to him on a hospital bed to forget a disturbing sleep for 30 minutes. In 1997, Leonid Filatov had a second kidney removed and a donor's one was transplanted. However, the actor's body did not accept someone else's organ, and rejection began. The doctors said: he will not live long. But Nina Shatskaya did not give up. She extended his life by six years, this was understood by everyone who was familiar with this amazing couple. She was with him always, because without his Nusik he could not spend even 10 minutes.

In 2003, the actor caught a cold, pneumonia began. But the use of drugs for its treatment was contraindicated after a kidney transplant. Leonid Filatov ended up in intensive care. Nina Shatskaya was by his side until the last second, holding his hand. He passed away on October 26, 2003. She could marry again, but she does not need anyone except her beloved Lyonya.

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Kakhi Kavsadze and Bella Mirianashvili

They met at the theater institute, but then Bella did not pay attention to Kakhi. She got married, gave birth to a child, and he continued to love her. When Bella's marriage fell apart, he proposed to her. And he was happy when she answered him with consent. The girl was 5 months pregnant when she went on stage with a high fever and then fell ill with pneumonia. I did not take medications so as not to harm the unborn baby. As a result of illness, immediately after giving birth, her legs gave up. She could not walk, and Kakhi, the star of the movie "White Sun of the Desert" and the favorite of millions of women, began to carry her everywhere in his arms. It was almost impossible to buy a wheelchair at that time, but he did everything so that his wife did not feel lonely and abandoned.

Soon, behind the legs of the woman, her hands ceased to obey. She could neither wash nor comb her hair. And Kazhi, strong, healthy, in demand, plunged into taking care of his wife. He washed and combed his wife, put makeup on her and spoke tirelessly about her beauty. Kakhi Kavsadze considered it his duty to maintain his wife's confidence in her feminine attractiveness. Rumors about his connection with other women have never been associated with the name of the actor. Doctors believed that Bella was only measured for a few years with this disease. She lived 23 years thanks to the love and care of her husband. He never told her about love in his life, he just proved his love with deeds.

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Lydia Kozlova and Mikhail Tanich

By the age of 30, the future star poet felt like a wreck. Twice frostbitten legs were constantly festering and bleeding, and after the camps, tuberculosis was added to the bouquet of diseases. But fate gave Mikhail Tanich a truly royal gift: he met Lydia Kozlova. The 18-year-old beauty began to look after her loved one. She bandaged him every day, because his legs were bursting at night for 20 years.

The girl could build her own career, but for Lydia Kozlova, there was not even a question about it. She made a decision to help her husband. His path to success is her path too. Although she had her own hits and her own achievements, the main thing in the life of Lydia Nikolaevna was always her husband's business. She could turn the world upside down for him, but she could not cope with oncology. Mikhail Tanich, who never swore to her in eternal love, leaving, whispered that they never had time to fall in love with …

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Vyacheslav Shumsky and Lyudmila Shagalova

The actress and cinematographer have both been in demand and successful. He shot great pictures, she starred in great films. But on the set, they never crossed, each went his own way in art.

Despite the nationwide fame, the couple always lived modestly. And in the 1990s, already in adulthood, both were left without work. Lyudmila Aleksandrovna's eyesight began to deteriorate rapidly, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich by that time no longer parted with a stick, without which he could not move. The operation on the eyes did not help Lyudmila Shagalova, she almost stopped seeing. But Vyacheslav Shumsky did everything so that his wife did not feel unnecessary. He looked after her himself, cooked, washed, cleaned. He positioned the phone so that his wife could communicate with the outside world. And she communicated, was always aware of what was happening. He supported his beloved wife as best he could. He passed away in January 2011, she outlived him a little more than a year. They lived together for 66 years.

Tatiana Vinogradova and Vyacheslav Shalevich

At 67, Vyacheslav Shalevich met a woman who became his fourth wife. She was 32 at the time. Naturally, she was accused of commercialism and a desire to live a bohemian life. Even Tatyana Vinogradova's mother was against this marriage. But the girl confessed: she fell madly in love with this imposing middle-aged man. He became for her the whole world and her true love. Tatiana was already married before, raising two children. And in 2001, their common daughter Anna was born. Tatyana, who had previously worked as a gynecologist, quit, devoting herself to her family, and later began to help her husband in the theater.

Since 2006, the actor began to get sick. And soon he stumbled and fell on his back during one of the performances. After the examination, it turned out that the artistic director of the Ruben Simonov Theater suffered several micro-strokes on his legs. The diagnosis sounded scary: chronic cerebral ischemia. Tatyana Vinogradova struggled with his illness for 10 years. She brought him to the theater in a wheelchair, and Vyacheslav Shalevich played on stage. Sitting but playing. The young woman spent ten years in tireless care of her husband, which undoubtedly prolonged his life. He retired in 2016 from complications from pneumonia.

For 13 years, his wife, Lyudmila Porgina, fought for the life of Nikolai Karachentsov. Their family life was not cloudless. Rumors, parting, stormy reconciliation. But the real price of their love became clear at the moment when Nikolai Karachentsov stopped at the edge of life. Lyudmila Porgina did not give him up to death. She pulled him out and learned to love the new, unfamiliar, but so dear Nikolai. On October 26, 2018 he passed away …