The Mika Myllylä family gathered in front of the media to celebrate the publication of the new book. Suvi Paavola remembers Iltalehti’s relationship with Myllylä and makes revelations of her current news.
Ski legend Mika Myllylä telling Fallen legend Mika Myllylä The Book of the Book was held on Friday in the will of the Helsinki Sports Museum.
The ex-wife of the late Myllylä arrived there Suvi Paavola as well as their children Benjami, Olivia and Wiljam. First, family members arrived in front of the media to tell about the book project. Paavola became sensitized to tears shortly after he said on stage that he was finally ready to talk about Myllylä’s life.
In 2011, the Mika Myllylä family arrived at the Book of the Book of the book. Pictured is Mika Myllylä’s children Olivia (left) Benjami (left) and Wiljami (right) and ex-wife Suvi Paavola (right center). Kaisa Vehkalahti
In an interview with Iltalehti, Suvi Paavola opens up her sensitization.
– I don’t know why I am sensitized in this situation, but … I have always been the most important thing about survival and I have talked to my children. But this is accompanied by a person who is a people’s favorite or why he is called a legend, there has been a contradiction that such [puhuminen] It is not desirable, Paavola begins.
– There has always been such that it is not about my life. But I think I still arrest my right to my own life, he continues.
Mika Myllylä’s ex-wife Suvi Paavola wiped her tears in front of the media. Kaisa Vehkalahti
Paavola says of some people wondering why he talks about “old things”. However, Paavola emphasizes that this is also his life. At the beginning of their relationship, Myllylä was 19 and Paavola 16.
– Together we built our family, his career and made choices for each other. However, it has built a person like I am today, Paavola says.
Substance abuse problem
One of the themes of the book is the Myllylä substance abuse problem. In Paavola, Paavola says that Myllylä’s verbalism was even more frantic and the nature was devilish, even scary.
Suvi Paavola reserves her right to her own life. Kaisa Vehkalahti
Now, Paavola says he is aware that man is not entirely under himself in substance abuse.
– Man is not bad, but substance abuse causes a certain behavior. But I didn’t always have the time when we had little kids and more. I did not feel that I should heal someone when we are all responsible for our own lives, says Paavola.
– Of course I liked my own and my family. Certainly we both gave the same amount, but our disputes were not that thing, but intoxicants. It is useless to speak anything to a person in intoxicants, he continues.
Photo from Mika Myllylä and Suvi Paavola from summer 1995. Ilpo’s reading
Paavola also mentions in the book that the children were afraid of his drunk father, and he had to hide the little ones in the bathroom or in his own rooms for a couple of disputes. Now Paavola says he and his children have dealt with how those times have affected them.
– I have blamed myself for telling young children about the situation. I didn’t want to go out, but it has been clear to me from the start that Dad is intoxicated, Paavola opens.
– Of course they may have been tough things for young children, but we have dealt with those things through the adulthood of children. I am really proud of my children and extremely grateful that I have such a good relationship with them. We have spoken directly and quarreled hard – they are just facts that have happened. Today we see them as strengths, he adds.
The difference and the new life
Paavola states that people are able to endure different behavior up to a certain point, but he had the freedom to choose whether they would have a relationship with Myllylä. The couple divorced in 2007.
Suvi Paavola says she has prepared for single parenting. Kaisa Vehkalahti
According to Paavola, after the divorce, Myllylä was part of the family for the rest of his life, and he did not want to take his father out of his father. At the same time, he wondered if he would become a single parent.
– All the time I was thinking about the kids and that they could be secured somehow. I thought I’d stay with them alone. Single parenting of three minor children is a big deal, but yes I went towards it all the time, he says.
At the same time, Paavola feels that he is free from the old days, but believes his former relationship still has a trail that he still affects him somehow. Paavola has also accepted that people will always talk and ask about Myllylä.
Today, Paavola works as a contract entrepreneur and lives with his engagement in his region of birth in Sievi.
– I feel I have returned to my roots. Life has calmed down again and I can only focus on myself and my well -being. Perhaps in a way the circle closes.
Paavola says that there is really little dealing with Myllylä parents.
– I have no bitterness or anger about anyone. I have always invited them to the children’s banquet and others, but … I still live strongly to this day in life and focus so.