Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood, 61, 'runs away with 18-year-old Russian cocktail waitress

Ronnie Wood has left his wife of 23 years for an 18-year-old Russian cocktail waitress, it was claimed today.

The Rolling Stone, 61, is said to have taken Ekaterina Ivanova to his home
in Ireland, leaving his wife Jo behind at the family home in Kingston upon
Thames.

Wood, an alcoholic who is said to have 'fallen off the wagon', met her three months ago after the Leicester Square premiere of Martin Scorsese's documentary about the Rolling Stones, Shine A Light.

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The other woman: Ekaterina Ivanova is said to have run away with rocker Ronnie Wood following an extra-marital affair

Jo, 53, said she believed the pair had gone on a painting holiday together.

'They're not boyfriend and girlfriend — not in that way.'

However, Ekaterina has been using Facebook to tell friends she and the
guitarist are having a relationship.

A friend told The Sun: 'She is absolutely besotted with Ronnie. She has told everyone Ronnie has left his wife for her and they are a full-on item.

'Ekaterina said Jo had told her she knew what was going on and begged her not to take her husband away. She claimed she told Jo, ' I am not taking him. He is leaving.'

Defiant: Jo Wood, pictured at Cipriani's restaurant last night, has denied the affair claims

A source close to Wood told the paper: 'Ronnie is not being his normal self. He is an alcoholic and he's fallen off the wagon.

'He is drinking two bottles of vodka a day and there is no way he would be behaving like this if he was sober.

Trouble: Ronnie and wife Jo, here at his book signing event last year

'He went out and found himself a drinking partner — that is what this girl is. He knows that his family wouldn't tolerate him behaving like this so he has run away to go and drink himself crazy.'

Woods has a long history of alcoholism and has tried - and failed - to conquer his addiction on numerous occasions.

The musician, who has also battled cocaine addiction, first acknowledged his drink problem in June 2000, when he admitted himself to the Priory for 10 days.

After coming out, he swore he would reform and even started drinking alcohol-free beer, but within a few weeks he had relapsed.

A failed second spell in The Priory in April 2001 was followed by a two-week stay at the tough Cottonwood Clinic in Arizona a year later, where clients have included Kate Moss, Paul Gascoigne and Naomi Campbell.

Again, he vowed to stay sober, only to be seen a few weeks later on the London party circuit clearly the worse for wear.

In March 2004, he was admitted once again to The Priory after being found inebriated underneath a restaurant table. And almost exactly a year later, in March 2005, he checked into an Irish clinic after getting drunk at wife's 50th birthday party.

In 2006, after celebrating his 59th birthday party in typically riotous fashion, he checked into The Priory, in Roehampton, London, for an intense five-day drying out session.

During their marriage, Jo made no secret of her dislike of her husband's drinking habits, which is also understood to deeply upset his adult children Leah, Tyrone and Jessie.

Icon: Ronnie (centre) poses with director Martin Scorsese (second right) alongside Rolling Stones bandmates Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Mick Jagger

from dailymail.co.uk