Tony Garnett vigorously defended Sofiia Karkadym, his new partner, claiming that “she’s no homewrecker” and that splitting from his ex-partner was the “proper thing to do.”
The 29-year-old said that Ms. Karkadym had been falsely accused of ending their romance when they first started dating.
Since the two left the home they shared with his former girlfriend, Lorna, and moved into a leased home in Bradford, he said that a “weight has been lifted off our shoulders.”
The council stated that additional changes to their home were required before they could get assistance through the Homes for Ukrainians scheme, putting the new couple under additional financial strain as a result of her eye surgery.
In order to care for Ms. Karkadym, who is partially blind in her right eye, Mr. Garnett told Metro.co.uk that he had quit his shift job. He also stated that he saw himself as her full-time carer.
“People are painting her as a villain who has come to the UK and stolen a British man,” he said.
“Nothing could be further from the truth. It was a mutual decision.
“It wasn’t as if we had met each other and decided then and there to move out. I was leaving regardless, because I’d had enough of Lorna, who took against Sofiia straight away.
“There was a lot of drama and a lot of stress when we lived with Lorna.
“Whenever I came home it was difficult for Sofiia and me to be around her at a time when we should have been helping a refugee make a new life here.
“I just wanted to take Sofiia away and look after her, I wanted to help someone who was fleeing from Ukraine.
“She’s not a homewrecker.
“I left to help her, and what happened after has happened, but it takes two to tango. She is being called a homewrecker on social media while I am having messages saying congratulations.”
In a recent post to her Instagram page, the Ukrainian IT worker said what she took to be a few facts of the matter.
She said Garnett’s decision to leave his long-term partner was a ‘conscious and considered’ one.
She again denied that she ‘stole’ anyone and attacked media coverage of the story which she said was ‘clearly exaggerated and written in such a way as to be as dramatic as possible.’
‘The first thing I want to say is that I did not steal anyone from the family. It was his conscious and considered decision, the decision of a 29-year-old man who has the right to fall in love, has the right to be happy and has the right to choose who to be with,’ Sofiia wrote.
Source: dailymail.co.uk
