Katia Ivanova: Fell into the arms of Wood after becoming distraught when her parents divorced

Russian teenager Katia Ivanova spoke of her love for troubled musician Ronnie Wood and declared: 'I love him'.

Katia, 19, maintained that her relationship with Rolling Stone Wood, 61, is far from over.

She told The Sun: 'I will never betray him. As long as there is a chance of happiness for me and Ronnie I have nothing to say. I love him and I'm standing by him.'

The pair had an alcohol-fuelled relationship which lasted for three months  -  with catastrophic consequences for Wood's marriage  -  and which ended up this week with him in rehab for the seventh time.

Katia fell into the rocker's arms after becoming alienated from her family when her father walked out on her and her mother remarried, the Mail has learned.

Miss Ivanova's mother Irina said she 'lost control' of her daughter when her first husband Sergie Ivanov abandoned the family in London to live a bohemian life as an artist and sculptor on a remote Scottish island.

Mrs Ivanova said the gulf between her and her daughter, now 19, widened when she married again and devoted all her time to her new husband and their daughter, now two.

As the family unit fell apart, said 45-year-old Mrs Ivanova, an impressionable and naive young Katia took a job as a waitress in a seedy escort bar in Soho.

And it was then when she met the Rolling Stones guitarist at 4am one morning in April.

Yesterday, the Mail told how Mrs Ivanova believed her daughter had had a sexual relationship with the 61-year-old rock star, that he had talked her into posing nude for him after they ran away together to his Irish castle, and then dumped her after handing her just £900 for her 'work' as his muse.

Bound for rehab: Ronnie Wood meeting with son Jessie at K Club in County Kildare earlier this week

As they were: Ronnie and Jo Wood at their daughter Leah's wedding last month

Mrs Ivanova said her daughter was living in London with friends and that her relationship with the rocker was on hold. At her small flat in Bloomsbury, Central London, Mrs Ivanova told how the family arrived in Britain in 1996 when Katia was eight, after a life of poverty in Russia.

As the family struggled to find work in London, she and her husband fell out of love and divorced, leaving Katia, then 14, and her older brother Pavel distraught. 

'My first husband is a creative man who lives in a different world,' she said. 'He was selfish and just cared about himself. The children really lost out. We were so tired of the marriage so we split up.'

But when Mrs Ivanova remarried, Katia again found herself surplus to
requirements.

Mrs Ivanova said: 'When my daughter was born  -  two years ago  -  I devoted so much time to her. I lost Katia, I think. She no longer had my full attention. I lost control of her and she had a lot more freedom to do what she wanted.

'She tried to be a model, but she said she hated it. Then she was at college for art and media, but she dropped out after 18 months.'

At her wits' end, she got a job she hoped would pay well at the now-notorious Capricorn escort club in London's Goodge Street.

Mrs Ivanova said: 'Katia started to work in this seedy bar to save money for a university course in English literature.

'She wants to write and illustrate children's books. Then when she met Ronnie, perhaps she hoped that would pay for her education.' 

But, as it turned out, Wood, was hardly forthcoming with his fortune. 

Katia's father, who is in his 40s, has lived on Papa Westray (pop. 70) in Orkney for the past two years with his partner Tsz Man Chan. She is also an artist.

A resident on the island said: 'Katia has been to visit them a number of times but has not visited in the last few weeks. Her father is very embarrassed by the whole Ronnie Wood affair and is keeping a low profile.'