Violetta Villas is still called a legend of the Polish stage. When she was 16, she married Piotr Gospodarek, a lieutenant of the border troops. After the wedding, they lived in the house of the singer’s parents and had a son, Krzysztof. Their relationship did not last and in 1964 the star moved with her child to Warsaw. It was there that she met the musicologist and music critic Janusz Ekiert.
Janusz Ekiert left his wife for Villas. However, he delayed the decision to divorce
Villas and Ekiert met at the Polish Radio building. She was 26, he was 33. At the time, he was married to the pianist Lidia Grychtołówna, but Violetta made a huge impression on him. He fell in love at first sight.
You couldn’t just look at her and go to sleep peacefully. You had to undress her with your eyes. Guys flocked to her en masse. She chose me.
– Janusz recalled in the book “Villas. I have nothing to hide”. At first, the couple hid their romance. However, they decided to share their happiness with the world and on November 20, 1965, they appeared together at the opening of the rebuilt Teatr Wielki. Grychtołówna was abroad at the time, but she was not too concerned about her husband’s fling. “He’ll play with it and come back home to me,” she was supposed to say. Violetta, on the other hand, hoped that Ekiert would choose her. When she left for Paris to give a concert, she wrote him love letters and assured him of her ardent feelings.
Violetta Villas Photo: Sławomir Kamiński / Agencja Wyborcza.pl
Violetta Villas was jealous and controlling of her lover. He returned to his wife
Janusz called Villas “his little violet” and she his “sweetest cocktail”. They moved in together, but their relationship was very stormy. Violetta was insanely jealous of her lover, and his wife was still in the background. Finally, in 1973, Ekiert decided that he no longer wanted to continue the affair.. The artist tried to stop him, but she failed.
When she loved, she loved maniacally, but when she got furious, she was ready to throw herself with a knife. Most often out of jealousy. And then she begged for forgiveness on her knees
– the musicologist said. After breaking up with Violetta, he returned to his wife. Lidia Grychtołówna forgave him everything and they were together until his death in 2016. A few years after breaking up with Ekiert, Villas tried to contact him. She invited him to her home to pick up his documents. He did not agree. He simply called the singer a “great adventure” and a “break in his marriage”. If you’d like, please vote in our poll below.
Source: Gazeta
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