The 71-year-old screenwriter recently experienced a personal tragedy. In March, Daria’s husband, Alexander Ivanovich, died. He was battling cancer, colon cancer. In time, she was able to overcome Donts’ illness, and her husband supported her along the way. The death of the chosen writer hit hard.
Daria said that her husband steadfastly accepted the disease. He believed that was his destiny. Alexander Ivanovich was a church man. An hour and a half before his death, the couple’s son got into a car and drove to the temple to bring a clergyman near his father to his father.
“My son flew to the gate of the hospital, two traffic police cars were rushing after him, and I was standing at this gate. Arkasha jumps out, traffic cops fly out to take him. I say, “Please, no. Our dad is dying.” The priest gets out of the car. The traffic policemen see all this, they say: “Daria Arkadyevna, we understand, we are leaving.” We ran upstairs. Alexander Ivanovich was almost speechless, but we managed to give him communion. Literally after 10 minutes, Alexander Ivanovich fell asleep, “said Dontsova.
The husband of the writer before his death asked her and her relatives not to cry for him. He was sure they were yet to meet, but in another world. Daria always thought of her wife. So, when she had cancer, she decided to arrange the personal life of Alexander Ivanovich. Donts was told she only had weeks to live. Then she went to her friend Oksana Glod. The surgeon-endocrinologist was not married.
“After all, when I was sick, I thought, ‘I have three children, three dogs, a mother and two grandmothers. I should marry my husband,” said the writer on Malakhov’s talk show. Alexander Ivanovich remembered it with humor after a while. He said with a smile that he liked Oksana.
Alexander Ivanovich is the third husband of Dontsova. The lovers got married in 1983. Together they raised the screenwriter’s son from his first marriage, Arkady, Dmitry – the writer’s stepson, and daughter Maria.
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