Ukrainian singer and author of the hit “I’ll drown in the deep river” Andrey Mikolaichuk admitted that he never had much wealth even at the peak of his popularity. The artist said that he worked for small fees, survived three apartment robberies, and now has debts and problems paying utilities. He admitted this in an interview with Dmitry Gordon. According to Mikolaichuk, during the period of his greatest popularity he did not earn much money, although the whole country knew his songs.

When asked if he once managed to collect a million dollars, the artist replied that even a thousand dollars was an impressive amount for him at one time.

\? For me, 1000 dollars was money.. I worked and received 100 dollars for a concert. Both then and now. I have never seen any money in my life,” the singer said.

Dmitry Gordon also recalled that the singer was a victim of robbery three times. As Mikolaichuk said, one day thieves took away the money that he hid in the piano. According to the singer, repairmen who worked in his apartment could have found out about the cache..

" But they were doing some repairs, and the workers saw that I was trying to get to the piano, and they stopped me.. It was my own fault, I was careless,” the artist explained.

According to Mikolaichuk, then 15 thousand dollars were stolen from him. He noted that today this would be a significantly larger amount due to inflation - about 150 thousand dollars.

The singer also complained about financial difficulties and said that he was now actually living in debt: “There is nothing at all - only debts”. In addition, the artist said that he recently encountered difficulties due to unpaid utilities.. According to him, the problem was solved only after the debt was paid.