Since 2024, reports have been spreading on the RuNet that an American actress fired a Ukrainian citizen who worked in her house after a language conflict. We have verified the accuracy of this story.
Publications about how Milla Jovovich allegedly fired her housekeeper, originally from Ukraine, because she refused to speak Russian, appeared in mid-autumn 2024. October 1 in the Telegram channel "Z-News | Army 🅉 18+“(88,000 views at the time of writing this analysis) the news was stated as follows: “In May of this year, refugee from Ukraine Svetlana Chernykh got a job as a housekeeper for a Hollywood actress in Miami. All the staff in Milla's house consists of people who came from the countries of the former USSR. At the beginning of September, a conflict arose between the hostess and Chernykh. The reason for the quarrel was the actress’s request to communicate with her 16-year-old daughter Ever Anderson in Russian to support her knowledge. Svetlana refused to comply with this request and was fired.” Such posts also appeared in May 2025 - as in Telegram, and on other platforms, including Facebook (examples here And here) and X (one of tweets received 238,000 views).
According to the TGStat service, from the fall of last year until the time of writing this analysis, about 230 similar posts appeared on Telegram, which in total received about 1.3 million views. For example, this was reported by the channels “Ostashko! Important"(81,000 views, already deleted), "Federation" (70,000), "Russian format"(41,000), "Russia 2.0" (37,000), "Hot show business news"(28,000), "Kryminforum 🇿 🇴 🇻"(24,000) and etc.. Among the media, notes on this topic were released “Arguments and facts", "Ukraine.ru" And Popcake. Posts about the alleged dismissal of the Ukrainian housekeeper Jovovich are found in Instagram and VKontakte, where they received a total of millions of views (examples here, here, here, here And here).
Milica Jovovich, who uses the name Milla in her career, was born in 1975 in Kyiv, and part of my childhood, in my own words, spent in Moscow. When she was five years old, the family moved over in the USA. Previously, the actress has repeatedly said that believes yourself as both Russian and Montenegrin (on your father’s side), and statedthat her religion is Russian Orthodoxy. Moreover, Jovovich filmed in Russian cinema, free speaks in Russian and reads Russian fairy tales for your children.
But the actress also has warm feelings for Ukraine. For example, several times she called herself as a Ukrainian, she said that loves sing in Ukrainian and proud Ukrainian people. During Euromaidan, January 30, 2014, Jovovich wrote: “My heart hurts when I see what is happening in Ukraine! I have faith in my amazing people and I know they will find a peaceful solution.”
In March 2022, shortly after the full-scale Russian invasion, the actress expressed support for Ukrainians: “I am heartbroken and dumbfounded, trying to comprehend the events of this week taking place in my homeland - Ukraine. My country and people are being bombed. Friends and family are hiding. My blood and my roots come from both Russia and Ukraine. I am torn in two, watching the unfolding horror, the destruction of the country, the displacement of families, around whom their entire lives lie in charred rubble. I remember the war in my father's homeland in the former Yugoslavia and my family's stories of the trauma and horror they endured. War. Always war. Leaders who cannot bring peace. The endless power of imperialism. And the people always pay for it with blood and tears.” Later Jovovich again statedthat supports his homeland and watches with sorrow the destruction of Ukrainian cities.
As for the news about how the actress allegedly fired a Ukrainian woman for refusing to speak Russian, no reputable foreign media wrote about this. There are no similar messages in social networks Jovovich, not on her website, nor on fan resources. The Russian publications mentioned at the beginning of this analysis indicated the TVCenter.ru portal as a source of information, where the corresponding news came out September 30, 2024. In turn, this site referred to a post from the Telegram channel that was released earlier that day Russian Fox (5600 views).
In fact, the original source of this news was the satirical Telegram channel “The Empire is Very Evil”, where there was an entry about Jovovich and the fired Ukrainian housekeeper appeared September 28, 2024 at 13:30 Moscow time and received 31,000 views. Two days later, the author of the channel stated, that her fictitious news about the actress “went well,” and asked for help to “harvest the harvest,” that is, to share resources that passed off fiction as reality. October 1 “The Empire is very evil” posted screenshots of TV presenter Ruslan Ostashko’s post on Telegram and notes from the Argumenty i Fakty newspaper. Later that day, the channel owner published a screenshot with approving comments from people who took the satirical news seriously and began writing to the actress on social networks. “A census of compatriots begins on Milla Jovovich’s Instagram,” added “The Empire is Very Evil.”
This channel does not hide the satirical nature of its publications and warns about this in its description: “Caution, possible fake and harsh satire. What is written is a work of fiction, all coincidences are accidental.” However, in social networks and the media, the posts of this blogger were repeatedly presented as real news, and “Verified” several times wrote about such cases.
Thus, Milla Jovovich did not fire her Ukrainian housekeeper after she refused to speak Russian. This is an invention of the Russian satirical Telegram channel.
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