On the last Saturday of the outgoing year, NTV will air the most unusual episode of the “Secret to a Million” program. Its main character will be the permanent presenter of the project, Lera Kudryavtseva. She had never participated in such experiments before, because she did not like discussing her personal life so openly.

The show will be hosted by Lera's colleagues and friends: Nikolai Baskov, Dmitry Malikov, Irina Dubtsova, Elena Vorobey. Kudryavtseva will have to answer the most frank questions, and her mother, sister and beloved husband will tell what they have never told anyone before.

In the “Secret for a Million” studio, Lera Kudryavtseva will also meet with her former lover Sergei Lazarev. For four years, from 2008 to 2012, the celebrities were together. The presenter will tell you why she broke up with the singer.

“He never asked me to marry,” said Kudryavtseva.

In addition, the ex-lovers found out other issues that had not been discussed previously. In the program, Lazarev asks Kudryavtseva about the fate of the puppy he gave her. “Where is the dog, Lera?” - says Sergei. “At Mom’s,” Lera answers and laughs.

The TV presenter invited her former lover to visit, to which he stated that he was no longer a visitor to her house, since she was now married to hockey player Igor Makarov.

In the program, Lera also recalled the painful breakup with her first husband, Sergei Lenyuk. “A girl started coming to our house and telling me how she slept with my first husband,” the artist noted.

Let us remind you that Lera Kudryavtseva is married for the third time. The second husband of the star was businessman Matvey Morozov. But in 2007 they divorced. Hockey player Igor Makarov called the TV presenter down the aisle in 2013. Despite the age difference, the couple is happy together. Lera insists that any rumors about their separation are spread by spiteful critics. A number of sources even reported that they had divorced.

“Globally, we don’t quarrel at all. The maximum is resentment over some little thing. Five minutes - and everyone forgot. I am always the first to reconcile. Even if it's not your fault. Igor has this character, apparently from his mother, along the genetic line. Never admits that he is wrong. Then there may be an insight. But it’s too late,” Lera said.

We went to Lera Kudryavtseva to ask her about her new novel. After all, having announced the severance of relations with Sergei Lazarev, the TV presenter immediately began to appear in the company of a 25-year-old handsome hockey player, forward of the SKA club Igor Makarov. It seemed that this was the obvious reason for parting with her former lover. But the conversation with Lera turned out completely different from what we expected...

- At the festival in Jurmala, after Sergei Lazarev was seen with strangers, it became clear that a black cat ran between you.

But then you denied everything...

The conversation, as a result of which we decided to leave, took place just before Jurmala. I said: “Seryozha, we need to talk seriously.” We sat down, and I told him everything that I had been preparing to say for several months. I put everything on the shelves! Finally, since the situation is hopeless, we need to separate. The answer was stony silence. I was even afraid that Seryozha did not understand anything, that I was never able to convey my thoughts to him. Then I realized: he understood everything, he was just trying to restrain his emotions. Finally he replied: “Well, if this is your firm decision, I cannot go against it.” We went to Jurmala separately. But we have not yet gained the strength to announce this to the public.

Everything was still too alive!

- What did Sergei do that made you decide to break up?

Seryozha didn’t do anything! Absolutely nothing! This may be hard to believe, but it’s true: I don’t have a single reason to reproach him. I'm just tired - that's the whole reason. It all started back in the winter, when Seryozha and I returned from a vacation in Miami. During the month of vacation, I got too used to him being around all the time. Every day from morning to evening and from evening to morning! In Miami, we lived with him as a couple with five years of experience should - we divided everything between two: activities, conversations, thoughts, jokes, affairs, food, bed... Perhaps we felt like real family. You quickly get used to good things... And then they returned to Moscow and each went home again.

And each of us was absorbed by work with its crazy rhythm... It seems that everything just returned to normal. But I suddenly felt so alone! Little things began to hurt me - Seryozha forgot to call, forgot to say some right words. And then apathy set in, and I began to catch myself thinking that I didn’t really care anymore whether he called or not. It became clear: our relationship had reached a dead end. We, unnoticed by ourselves, missed our love, did not allow it to develop naturally, and it began to decline. And it was already too late to change anything. I never dreamed of officially marrying Lazarev and never wanted to live in the same house with him. And if you had asked me, say, two years ago, whether I was satisfied with the relationship that Seryozha and I had, I would have answered: absolutely!

We work in the same business, tour together, host some events together, we have an amazing commonality of interests! Well yes, we live in different apartments, but we call each other several times a day, text each other, and each knows in great detail what is going on with the other. At the same time, this guest version of the relationship allowed me to devote as much time to work as it required. I love my job, and my life is largely dedicated to it! Why not love her, if the profession brought me much more joy than both of my official marriages combined...

- Well, yes, both of your marriages were not very successful. And if the first one, with the musician of “Tender May” Sergei Lenyuk, broke up, as they say, due to youth and inexperience (you were both about twenty, and you still had not developed a relationship with your mother-in-law, who had a great influence on your son), then the second marriage - with Matvey Morozov - turned out to be just some kind of thriller...

The husband turned out to be not at all the person you thought he was, he deceived more than six hundred people, was caught in fraud, for which he ended up in prison, and it turned out that he had previously been imprisoned for rape and robbery...

Without going too deep into this topic, both of my marriages really brought me disappointments. For this reason alone, there seemed to be no need for me to rush into this trap again. I didn't even try! Until six months ago I realized how tired I was of being alone! It turns out that I am not at all as progressive and independent as I thought.

It turns out that I, like most women, need someone’s warmth, a man’s shoulder. I want a man to be next to me every evening. I want to lie on the couch with him and watch movies. I want to cook borscht and have dinner together in the evening. I want to go to the dacha together. And, realizing this, I at the same time realized that I don’t have anything like that with Sergei Lazarev and never will. But this is such a longing - to love someone, but not to see him, not to feel him, not to touch him! If you knew how tired I am of answering the question: “When will you and Sergei have a wedding?” What kind of wedding, one wonders, when my loved one is never with me! He is always absent even from the city. And if he is, then I am not... And only on weekends (with our work quite rare), on holidays, on vacations we can afford the luxury of just being with each other! I don’t consider collaboration to be a special issue.

When I explained all this to Seryozha, I didn’t even expect him to suggest changing something.

I understand perfectly well that his career comes first. Seryozha is a terrible perfectionist, he is simply passionate about his work, he is a fan of it! And I used to like that about him! But this is what always happens: for a long time you are satisfied with something, and then - bam! And for some reason it stops. So I was no longer satisfied with the second place assigned to me. After all, I understand that if Seryozha is faced with a choice: his new album or me with my problems, he will choose the album. And it wouldn’t even occur to me to ask him otherwise. In general, after five years of our romance, I suddenly realized that this was a train to nowhere. Despite the fact that we spent these five years very comfortably with him! But the more comfortable they lived together, the more difficult it was to separate.

We had a wonderful, simply amazing relationship. We didn’t even quarrel with Seryozha at all during this time. Well, there was one episode a few years ago, at “Song of the Year,” when we just had a nasty fight behind the stage, before going out. Because of some detail in the script - now I don’t even remember exactly what it was. We were both just on nerves, on adrenaline, after all, “Song of the Year” is a serious event! And so Seryozha and I sent each other to hell and didn’t speak for several weeks - although we continued to go on stage and smile at each other as if nothing had happened. Then it was all funny to remember... Well, Seryozha once got angry with me for meddling in his work, when I tried to put in my two cents and advise him something about his music.

All! Nothing bad ever happened between us again. But there were a lot of good things! I have never laughed so much as with Lazarev! He is capable of turning any problem into a joke. It happened that we laughed with him the whole night, until the morning. Moreover, I suspect that if someone heard what was happening, they would not understand anything. Our humor with him is very specific, individual, only for personal use. What is there! These five years are generally full of the most bright memories- I’ve never had this happen to anyone else! Now all I do is remember some of our adventures with Seryozha. I remember and smile through my tears! This is how, for example, we were supposed to fly to a television project somewhere, either in France or in Argentina, but by mistake at the airport for some reason I was given an economy class ticket, and Lazarev was given a business class ticket.

But these things were agreed upon in advance, and both of us were entitled to business class according to the contract. In general, Seryozha and I freaked out and didn’t fly to the project. And then he says: “Listen, we’re already at the airport anyway. And they have already cleared several days in their schedules anyway. So let’s go somewhere by the sea, where the first plane flies!” And so we approach the board and see that in an hour there is a flight to Barcelona. And we are flying there. We have no hotel reservations or ideas of where to live. But it was high season, all the hotels were packed! But somehow we managed to get out, found a hotel and spent an absolutely wonderful week at sea near Barcelona! You never know how many happy trips we had with him... And what touching gifts he gave me, how he cared! Seryozha is generally very anxious. He knows how to work as a nurse amazingly: he makes you laugh, encourages you... Whatever! As soon as I caught a common cold and lay down at home with a fever, he rushed to me with oranges, freshly squeezed juices, and woolen socks.

Of course he's smart! And there was always only support from him. Oh, I’m already starting to think: why did I send him away? What have I done? Seryoga has become such a dear friend to me, so close... I know him all the way - from head to toe. It often happened with him that he would begin to express some thought, and I would pick it up and continue. We were absolutely on the same wavelength, breathing in unison! We liked the same food, music, clothes, entertainment. We were worried about the same problems in the world. It’s simply amazing what harmony Seryozha and I managed to achieve in just five years! And with all this, it turns out that I have to break up with Seryozha! You have to close this door and wait for another one to open after that.

What a challenge, right? It would be much easier if something really negative happened between us. If someone cheated on someone, offended someone, hit them over the head with a frying pan! We would have developed a dislike for each other, and it would have been easy and natural to separate. Well, or at least there was some good reason to break up right now - for example, someone would be leaving somewhere for several years. But no! When you, although thoughtfully and rationally, but emotionally, absolutely out of the blue, announce to your loved one that we supposedly need to try to live without each other, it is very painful for both him and you. And then, of course, your hands are itching to dial his number and talk to him. But Seryozha and I agreed in advance not to do this. After all, what does separation mean in our case? We didn’t live together to pack our bags and leave, as is usually the case.

Not our option! Instead, we simply agreed not to communicate temporarily. Otherwise, it would be unclear what our separation was about - after all, we might not have seen each other for weeks before! But over time, I hope we can communicate again - as friends.

- Information is already circulating on the Internet that Lera Kudryavtseva is dating a young hockey player, forward of the SKA club, tall and handsome Igor Makarov. The 25-year-old athlete himself posted several photographs on his micro-blog where he tenderly hugs you...

I have nothing to say on this topic. Too early. And then, during the five years of our relationship with Seryozha, when thousands of people watched our every sneeze, they quoted our every message to each other in some social network, I’m so tired of all this that I probably just won’t stand the second test like this!

- But it’s not easy to extinguish the wave of interest in your new novel...

Igor Makarov’s age alone excites minds! Sergey Lazarev is 12 years younger than you, and Igor is 16 years younger!

Well, yes, in our country there is some downright morbid interest in the topic of age. Due to the fact that I am 12 years older than Seryozha, people for a very long time did not believe that we really had an affair. Although now, as far as I know, the same people do not want to believe in Seryozha and I’s separation. For example, girls from our fan clubs. Previously, Lazarev and I had separate fan clubs, and some of his fans did not like, or even did not know me at all, and some of mine - Seryozha.

But they all agreed that we were absolutely not suitable for each other! But in the end, our fan clubs united, and now the girls are simply experiencing universal grief that Lazarev and I are diverging. Somehow, apparently, after five years everyone came to terms with our 12-year age difference, and it stopped looking like a serious obstacle. Stereotypes are all nonsense! When two people don't feel the age difference, why should the public suddenly care? Lazarev never felt that I was older than him, and I that he was younger. And there are so many stories around when men live their whole lives with women who are 20 years older than them, and even carry them in their arms! Just yesterday I heard a similar story from friends, how a husband could not bear the death of his wife, 19 years older than him, and very soon after her he burned to death. It happens differently here. You might think that if a man and a woman are the same age, this will guarantee them against separation.

The world is designed in such a way that some people live with each other until the very end, while others separate, some after three years, some after ten, and this has nothing to do with age.

- Sergei Lazarev wrote in the comments where your new novel was discussed that he was “happy for Kudryavtseva, who managed to find herself a “real man.” Do you think he is jealous of you?

For sure. I won’t lie, I’m jealous of him too. Of course, I wonder where Seryozha is, with whom and how things are going with him. With my mind I wish him to find the person of his life... But with my emotions I don’t want to wish this for him, like an egoist... (Laughs.) I’m not ready yet to see Seryozha with someone and not be jealous!

I think he feels about the same. I know Seryozha well and understand how difficult it is for him now. He took our breakup quite painfully. We are both going through a difficult period right now. But I simply didn’t see any other way out of this situation. Now all I can do is drive away thoughts about Seryozha. Fortunately, I have girlfriends and friends for that. I try not to stay at home alone for a long time - otherwise you can get hung up on your experiences. Based on doubts and soul-searching: was everything really so hopeless that they should cut like that, to the quick? Maybe I was a fool and should have just waited? In general, I start to burden myself, and this does not lead to anything good. What's done is done, and you just need to continue building your life.

We thank the furniture salon “Baker” for their help in organizing the shooting

Recently, an unusual episode of the “Secret to a Million” program was shown on the NTV channel. A special feature of this program was the fact that the presenter Lera Kudryavtseva became the heroine of the show, and in the place of the presenters her relatives and friends tore her apart. One of them was ex-lover artists Sergey Lazarev, whom they dated for six years. For the first time, Lera had to openly talk about the reasons for breaking up with the singer - after all, she previously preferred not to advertise her personal life and avoided talking about this topic.

In the studio, Lazarev bombarded Kudryavtseva with fairly straightforward questions, and she was forced to give equally straightforward answers. So, Lera admitted that she did not marry Sergei because he never proposed to her during the six years of their affair. “He never asked me to marry,” said Kudryavtseva. In addition, the singer asked his former lover where the dog was that he gave her when she was still a puppy. Kudryavtseva openly admitted that she sent the pets to her mother. After a conversation with Lazarev, the TV presenter invited him to her home for a visit. However, Sergei refused.

The singer said that he would no longer come to her house because another man lives there - after all, Lera is married to hockey player Igor Makarov. The athlete proposed to Kudryavtseva in 2013. Despite the 16-year age difference, the couple get along well with each other. Lera denied all the rumors about separation from her husband that appear on the Internet from time to time. According to her, such gossip is spread by spiteful people and envious people.

Sergei Lazarev, who turns 33 on April 1, leafed through the history of the last ten years. So many songs, countries seen and, of course, novels! Sergei first told Antenna about them.

In our society it is generally accepted that the meaning of life comes down to marriage and family. But in my childhood there was no such example. This is neither bad nor good, but a fact. My parents divorced when I was five years old. My mother raised me, gave me an excellent education and upbringing. And, as you can see, it’s not flawed at all. The question arises, who needs my marriage? To society? Yes, I'm 33 years old. But I’m fine with my personal life, I’m not alone. I'm just not ready to start a family yet.

Guy I'm not a gift

Marriage is a wild responsibility, a reassessment of priorities, when work should fade into the background. I can’t even imagine this. I am my own boss, no producer, a huge number of people work and depend on me. The other half should understand this and support it. Not everyone can do this. Usually the girls got tired of waiting and started throwing tantrums like: “Where are you going? Who is next to you in the photo? And people who are far from the sphere of show business don’t even want to explain anything.

Photo personal archive of Sergei Lazarev

I also have enough shortcomings. Jealous, on my own mind, I’m often away from home, I may not respond to text messages if they start pounding me with calls, I can lose my temper at some point, like any Aries is very hot-tempered. Not a gift at all. At the same time, he should also be the main one in the relationship, but he doesn’t need a wimp next to him, but an ally. It is difficult to find someone who would be equal and at the same time understand who is boss in the house. We only had such a balance with Lera Kudryavtseva.

A little guy and a TV personality

Photo personal archive of Sergei Lazarev

Before Lera, I had college love, everything was serious, we even lived together. But then... She couldn't keep up with me. While studying at the theater school (Sergei graduated from the Moscow Art Theater School - Note: “Antennas”), I had a sharp turn in the other direction - my musical career took off. I sang in “Smash!!”, some kind of movement began. But it was difficult for the girl to catch such a pace. When a person stops matching you, it's incredibly annoying. You have a whirlwind of events, but the other one doesn’t move. We broke up, but remained friends and still keep in touch. I manage to run away without scandals.

I’m glad that after the breakup we maintained a warm relationship with Lera. I am very grateful to her for many things. Thanks to her, in one moment he turned from a boy into a young man. After all, Lerka was a star! How I remember now that “New Wave” of 2002, when I was 18 years old, Vladik Topalov was 16, we were just starting our journey with the group “Smash!!”, and she was already the host of the competition! We’re still laughing, who would have thought then how this would end for us.

Initially, we were colleagues, occasionally seeing each other at events, and in 2007 we were assigned to host the MUZ TV award ceremony together, then “Song of the Year”, and in 2009 – “New Wave”... That’s where it all started. But no, before that there was a concert in Israel, where on stage in front of a large crowd he gave Lerke some kind of compliment and kissed him. In the evening, walking next to me along the embankment, she decided to take a closer look at this boy from “Smash!!”

When a famous person is next to you beautiful woman, you need to comply. She is a TV personality, there is always increased attention to her, and next to me, a small little boy. I had to mature sharply. Now I’m looking at photographs from 2007: well, he’s just a young man, but in the photographs with Kudryavtseva he straightened his chest and his look changed. With Lerka, I became a man who knows how to take responsibility for his actions, he learned to think about another person, to take other people’s opinions into account, although we argued a lot, I tried to change her in some ways, she tried to change me, but it was an important life tandem.

Relationships have become work

At the festival “New Wave – 2015”

Photo Sergey Dzhevakhashvili

We have exactly the same rhythm of life. Lerka is active, independent, and always has some kind of projects. She doesn’t need to explain why a person is away from home for days - she herself lived like that.

But at some point we got tired of each other. Our relationship suddenly turned into work. They began to perceive us only as a couple, they invited us to host all events together...

And this somehow cooled us down. In fact, they broke up even earlier than they officially announced. We sat down, talked and came to the conclusion that we needed to finalize some joint activities, and then set off on a solo voyage again. Now we don’t see each other so often, I understand that her husband doesn’t really want to let his beautiful wife go with her ex.

Slowly, but he got his way

Photo by Persona Stars

I've always liked older girls. I was usually the youngest in the company: I started first grade at 6 years old, and went to college at 16. And in childhood, a year is a serious difference. The classmates I paid attention to considered me too small. Despite the fact that in childhood he was already considered some kind of celebrity - he sang in “Fidgets”, was the pride of the school, but he was still not particularly popular among girls. The elementary school girls were crazy about me. When I was in the 8th grade, crowds of fifth-graders ran after me, looked from around every corner, opened the doors to the classroom, clapped, and laughed. I received a huge number of valentines, but not from girls my age. Although he was still a charmer. Slowly, but he achieved his goal.

Now I'm too lazy to take care of him. Status does half the job. It’s enough to give flowers, take you to a movie, to a restaurant, drive around Moscow with some good music, make a present, and that’s it. Although I don’t like it when people fall in front of me with open arms, I still need to achieve it myself. Previously, I had more impudence and impudence. And this, by the way, also manifested itself in work.

I remember myself ten years ago and am amazed at how self-confident and arrogant I was. It seemed like I knew everything. After leaving Smash! I was torn to pieces, signed international contracts. Naturally, the roof was blown off. He refused all the producers, many of them were hanging around at the time. But now I understand that it was the right decision. I am one of the few young artists who belongs to himself and does not owe anything to anyone. When you do everything yourself, you grow up quickly. Over the years, youthful maximalism has gone away, I have become more modest, and have learned to respect those things that I do not understand. Previously, I could speak unflatteringly about those performers whose work I did not like. Now I understand how stupid this is, because not everyone likes me either, although I work one hundred percent, I put my soul into it, but for some my creativity is not worth a damn. Now I think about many things easier.

Recently they sent me statistics on the number of views of my clips on YouTube. My audience consists of people aged 18−35. This is 60% of listeners, the main backbone. And five years ago these were girls 13-17 years old. They believed that Lazarev was the idol of the young. Now these girls have grown up with me. A good trend. No wonder he spent ten years proving that even without “Smash!!” I’m something of myself, I can sing solo. Luckily, no one calls me ex-Smash anymore. Was beautiful time, but just a start. Now there is no need to prove your worth. I want to lead the viewer, develop further, and never stop. If I decide to take a break for a year or two, I’ll quickly fall out of the picture – I understand that perfectly well. And it’s not a fact that I can jump back. So I keep plowing.

Civil marriage

I am comfortable in civil relationships. My mother lived with a man for a long time. I think that in my case a wedding is a show, work, photo shoots for magazines, interviews, I’m unlikely to get any pleasure from it. But never say never.

Recently, an unusual episode of the “Secret to a Million” program was shown on the NTV channel. A special feature of this program was the fact that the presenter Lera Kudryavtseva became the heroine of the show, and in the place of the presenters her relatives and friends tore her apart. One of them was the artist’s former lover Sergey Lazarev, whom they dated for six years. For the first time, Lera had to openly talk about the reasons for breaking up with the singer - after all, she previously preferred not to advertise her personal life and avoided talking about this topic.

In the studio, Lazarev bombarded Kudryavtseva with fairly straightforward questions, and she was forced to give equally straightforward answers. So, Lera admitted that she did not marry Sergei because he never proposed to her during the six years of their affair. “He never asked me to marry,” said Kudryavtseva. In addition, the singer asked his former lover where the dog was that he gave her when she was still a puppy. Kudryavtseva openly admitted that she sent the pets to her mother. After a conversation with Lazarev, the TV presenter invited him to her home for a visit. However, Sergei refused.

The singer said that he would no longer come to her house because another man lives there - after all, Lera is married to hockey player Igor Makarov. The athlete proposed to Kudryavtseva in 2013. Despite the 16-year age difference, the couple get along well with each other. Lera denied all the rumors about separation from her husband that appear on the Internet from time to time. According to her, such gossip is spread by spiteful people and envious people.