Elena Slipachenko can not walk for several years now. The once famous sportswoman is chained to a wheelchair. More than ten years ago, the champion hit her back hard. Doctors diagnosed a compression fracture. Money for the treatment of a woman was not. Two years later she was paralyzed. And now Elena only moves her hands. This became known in the studio program "Live", where they invited Elena. She said that she lives in St. Petersburg to retire 14 thousand. rub. in a shabby apartment. The janitor-guest worker takes her to Nevsky Prospekt, and there the former sports star asks for alms. Collected from kind people, Elena spends on rent. She lives with her son, but he does not help his mother. Maxim works as a bartender and comes home only to spend the night. The sportswoman has social workers, but they can not solve all her problems. Champion's apartment is not suitable for a wheelchair, because of which Elena can not wash herself for a long time. Yes, and in the entrance of a disabled woman it's hard to move around. The sportswoman and on street could not get, would eat not the assistant who for a symbolical payment takes out it there.

"Recently a friend asked if you want to live or do not want to? This is not life, tin," - said Elena.

After completing her career in big sport at the age of 18 she learned to be a bartender and started working in a cafe: coaching did not bring much income. A trauma she received many years after playing sports, said Slipachenko on the transfer. The woman did not name the reason why her son does not help her. And Maxim was also invited to the studio. Before filming, he told the editors of the program that for many years he did not communicate with his mother. "My childhood was relatively happy. However, at some point I learned about the distributed and used prohibited substances. Further it was aggravated. The substances were distributed by this woman herself, "the young man said.. Maxim did not even mention Elena as mother, but remembered that when he was 8 to 10 years old, he saw a woman in an irresponsible state, which made him tease at school, and his relations with peers did not add up. And resentment against his mother has remained so far. Elena, in her words, is trying to establish relations. But, apparently, so far, unsuccessfully.

He lives together because, Maxim explained, he can not rent a separate room. At the same time, the young man added, he did not need anything from her, even an apartment. Meanwhile, square meters have one more owner - Elena's brother. And he told the telephone about plans to take his sister's property from her. He has his own family, and his relative, just like her son, does not help. Elena Slipachenko - USSR champion in trampoline sport, participant of the opening ceremony of the Olympics-80.