'Ronnie Wood, the Goblin King': Former lover Ekaterina Ivanova pulls no punches

By Anny Shaw and Richard Simpson for MailOnline
Updated: 05:55 EDT, 14 December 2009

She refused to press charges against him after he allegedly tried to throttle her in the street.

But Ronnie Wood’s young Russian lover has not waited long to exact her revenge.

Days after she went home to her mother, Ekaterina Ivanova has broken her silence about their rocky 18-month relationship – and pulled no punches.

The 21-year old Russian-born waitress described alcoholic Wood, who is 41 years her senior, as the ‘evil Goblin King’.

'Princess in the tower': Ekaterina Ivanova likens her 18-month affair with Ronnie Wood to a fairy tale

She said: ‘The whole thing started off like a fairy tale. But then it felt like an evil fairy tale.

'When Ronnie and I moved into a tower, my friends were laughing and saying I was like the princess trapped in the tower. He went all Jekyll and Hyde. I’d be trapped there with an evil Goblin King.’

The couple had been sharing a rented mock castle with a turret in Claygate, Surrey, until a drunken Wood allegedly attacked her in the street nearby.

Witnesses claimed they saw Wood ‘choking’ Miss Ivanova as he dragged her along the pavement in a headlock. She subsequently returned to her mother’s council flat in central London – and began negotiations to sell her story.

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Bad romance: Ekaterina likened the 62-year-old Rolling Stone to the Goblin King

Miss Ivanova told Hello! magazine that Wood’s complete dependence on drink made him act like a child and made him impossible to live with.

She said: ‘On the day of my birthday, he woke me up with champagne and caviar, but the thing is I had a couple of glasses and Ronnie carried on drinking.

'We went to a restaurant that he’d booked, and they brought out a really beautiful cake and all the waiters were singing “happy birthday”, and he was so drunk it was really awkward.’

She went on: ‘I just don’t think he could handle it (drinking) so well. Even if he wasn’t nasty, he would start repeating the same jokes and I found them really irritating.

Back to reality: Ekaterina takes the tube following her split from from Rolling Stone Ronnie last week

'When we first met, I drank a lot but then I just couldn’t keep up. He would sit there and drink and I wouldn't feel the need to. I would say, "You can carry on drinking, but all you are doing is pushing me away."

'We would have the best nights out, then I would know when to stop and he wouldn’t. You need to be really strong to live with someone like that. I am strong but I can’t be bothered.’

Miss Ivanova added: ‘I grew out of him. I just thought, what’s the point of being with an older man if he acts about 12?

'He was like a child with tantrums when he was drunk, throwing water bottles and doing impressions of my voice. It was like trying to keep a child under control. In the end I was so unimpressed by everything. I found it very fake.

Lap of luxury: Ekaterina steps out of Wood's chauffeur-driven car

Jo Wood has invited Ronnie to spend Christmas with her and the children following his split from Ekaterina

'I had an empty feeling inside. I thought, “What a pathetic person, I don’t do anything.” All I would do is sit at home, light up scented candles, watch TV, and order some clothes on the internet.’

Miss Ivanova claimed that Wood was desperate to make the relationship work but she decided enough was enough. ‘

At the end I think he needed to be mothered. I think that’s the kind of person he needs to be with. I tried and I tried but it didn’t make me happy. I thought, “I’m only 21, why should I sit here worrying about him?”.’

Wood is understood to have been invited to dine with his family over Christmas by Jo, his ex-wife who was married to him for 23 years.

Miss Ivanova said: ‘I have a lot of respect for Jo now, because he’s a handful. I don’t know how she did it. I couldn’t. She seems to be better off without him, way happier. But who can he live with if she can’t do it and I can’t do it?’

Meanwhile, the Russian beauty has had to swap such luxuries as being ferried about in a chauffeur-driven car for travelling on the London Underground.

The former cocktail waitress's lavish lifestyle was abruptly ended last week when the couple split after a string of explosive rows.

Ekaterina is now said to be staying at her mother's council house on a London estate - a far cry from the huge Surrey mansion she shared with Wood.

Earlier this month, Wood was arrested on suspicion of assaulting Ekaterina after a drunken row in the street.

It was the latest in a string of heated arguments between the pair.

In September, Ekaterina is said to have threatened suicide after Wood planned to have a family dinner with his ex-wife Jo.

Ekaterina's grandmother today spoke out against the ageing rocker.

The full interview with Ekaterina appears in the current issue of Hello!

According to the Sunday Mirror, Grandma Lyudmila, 76, claims the Rolling Stone should pay the 21-year-old Russian compensation for making her life hell.

She told the newspaper: 'He should pay her for the torture he put her through. She deserves it.'

Wood left Jo, his wife of 23 years, after meeting Ekaterina in a seedy escort bar in Soho, London. But Ekaterina has now taken a swipe at Rolling Stone Wood, telling the News of the World: 'There were always three people in our relationship.'

A source close to Wood told the newspaper: 'Kat always moaned that he talked to Jo regularly.

'They had many huge rows about it.'

Meanwhile, Jo has invited Wood to spend Christmas with her and the four children.

Jo, 54, is selling the £13million mansion they shared in Kingston, Surrey, and would like the family there one final time.

She also wants to give a proper send-off to their daughter Leah, 30, who is planning to move to Australia in the New Year with husband Jack and baby Maggie.

But his spokesman said last night that he had decided not to take up Jo’s invitation.

Jo said: ‘I’m very happy being single at the moment.’