Ex wife tells how hell came from family life with Mika Myllylä-hid the children in the bathroom

Mika Myllylä wrestled especially in the final stages of her life with substance abuse problems. IL Archive

Marko Lempinen fresh Fallen legend (Oak) paint an honest rugged picture Mika Myllyläfrom the late sports hero.

In addition to skiing and medals, the well -known difficulties of Myllylä’s life, especially the endless struggle with substance abuse, play an important role in the book’s pages.

Lempinen announces that he interviewed “nearly 80 people” for the book. He shows the greatest thanks to Myllylä’s children, that is, For benjam, To Olivia and For Wiljam as well as for ex-wife To Suvi Paavola.

Lempinen will carry his readers until 2006. Myllylä’s career was over at that point.

– According to Suvi, drinking Mika often pushed the family into darkness during these years, Lempinen writes.

– The family life became hell because Mika’s verbality was drunk and the nature was devastating, scary. Just as if another person had lived inside him.

According to the book, Paavola, the then Myllylä, had to go out “with the children for escape”.

– According to Suvi, the three children of the married couple were afraid of their drunken father. That’s why he usually hid the children in the bathroom or in his own rooms for a couple of disputes, Lempinen writes.

– Sometimes he thought it was best to take the children out of the home, either to relatives or friends. He was scared himself.

The mills divorced in 2007.

Credit card invoice

Myllylä drank briskly during her career. In a fallen legend The story is told from 1996, when he stayed from the World Cup after returning to Helsinki, because there was no longer at home in the evening.

– For his national teammates, he told the events of the evening in this style: “Then I said Suvi that it was a must -have for the night in Helsinki when the fatigue weighed so unusually.”

When the credit card invoice landed by mail, Paavola became clear to the Helsinki evening.

– The secret measures had failed, and Mika described the events that followed with her ski brothers with her familiar engagement. The actual burst happened when Mika mimicked Suvi’s screaming first reaction after the invoice: “What the hell is King’s Kakadu?”, Lempinen writes.

– “I went to the robbery to make the mistake that I paid my drink bill with a credit card,” Mika continued.

King’s Kakadu was Tom Sjöberg Owned by a large Roobertinkatu restaurant, which was known for, among other things, low -dress women.

Myllylä died in July 2011. He won the Olympic gold and four world championships in his brilliant career.