23-year-old becomes a millionaire with CS:GO, falls in love with the wrong woman, loses everything
23-year-old Kirill “Boombl4” Mikhailov is a professional player of the shooter Counterstrike: Global Offensive (Steam). In 2021 alone, he earned $832,000 in prize money playing tournaments in CS:GO. Now he tells in an interview how the turbulent relationship with a woman destroyed his life and career.
That was the “dream career” of Boombl4:
- The now 23-year-old Russian played for Natus Vincere and was the team’s in-game leader. He led NAVI to many successes, especially in 2021: the team is half Russian and half Ukrainian, including s1mple, a great player.
- Overall, Boombl4 has earned over $1 million in prize money with CS:GO: In 2021, he took in over $830,000 in prize money (via esports earnings).
- 2021 in particular went great for NAVI: In November 2021, the team won a major tournament in Stockholm and Mikhailov proposed to his then-girlfriend on the big stage.
Just a few months later, Boombl4 was fired, his wife divorced him, and he posted a video of him picking something up his nose.
Now Boombl4 talks about his momentous relationship.
Emotional moment: A marriage proposal on the big stage.
Where are the statements from? Now, in a YouTube interview in Russian, Boombl4 talks about his relationship with his ex-wife, who appears on Instagram as LiQueen (via youtube). At MeinMMO we refer to a translation and summary of the interview in English (via blix).
Player broke up with girlfriend because she didn’t congratulate him on the win
That’s how he met his girlfriend: He said he broke up with his then and first girlfriend in March 2021 because she didn’t congratulate him on winning a CS:GO tournament. He then wanted to take the relationship thing a little easier.
But he met a woman he felt a connection with and wanted to spend more time with.
At an early stage in their relationship, he flew to Mexico with his new acquaintance and promised her that if he one day won the World Cup he would propose to her. After the stay in Mexico, the two were officially a couple.
CS:GO is one of the most lucrative and biggest esports titles in the world, especially in Russia and Eastern Europe:
Promise becomes player’s undoing
How did the marriage proposal come about? According to the player, he and his future wife had a tumultuous relationship from the start:
- They kept breaking up
- But also very nice moments spent together.
- Boombl4 had set out to be a good stepfather to his wife’s son from a previous relationship.
So they moved into a shared apartment immediately before the start of the tournament in November 2021. But his new stepson did not live with them:
We moved into our first common apartment. I felt so good, I moved away from my parents for the first time and lived my life with my wife – it was great. But boot camp before the major was coming up and she wanted to have a serious conversation. We had just played BLAST Online and everything was fine when she says: we have to split up. I ask: are you sure? Pretend you didn’t say that and never say that again.
Girlfriend breaks up first, reminding player of his promise to marry her
While Boombl4 was training in boot camp and during the World Cup, he had no contact with his girlfriend. But it is said that as the World Cup came to a head, the girlfriend repeatedly reminded him of his promise to propose to her if they win.
In the end, all his teammates warned him not to propose to her, but he says he decided with his heart instead of his head.
How did the relationship break up? Immediately after he proposed to his wife, rumors surfaced on Telegram that the woman was a former Edel postulate who also worked as a porn actress between 2018 and 2021 (via gamesread).
He and his wife had contradicted these rumors at the time. Boombl4 says today he wanted to do what was right for his wife. He loved her very much.
Just a few months ago, the couple seemed happy:
Woman posts pictures on Instagram supporting the war in Ukraine
How did she ruin his life? His wife is very active on social media, especially on Instagram and Telegram. This ultimately became Boombl4’s undoing. Because she posted photos on Instagram in which she was seen with the Russian flag and in front of tanks. Apparently she wanted to support Putin’s war in Ukraine.
However, NAVI is a Ukrainian team and could not accept that. His wife’s behavior led to Boombl4’s dismissal, he now confirms.
Boombl4 says:
Those were the hardest days for me mentally: the photo with the flag. She showed me that she took the picture. I said don’t post that. She asked me why not? I said: This has a negative impact on my career. Two weeks later she posts the photo. I ask again: why? But she doesn’t answer, just says I had to swallow it.
Ultimately, however, these photos led to his dismissal from NAVI, but the woman had no understanding for that:
I woke up and the head of NAVI called me and told me I was no longer part of the team. I took this without emotion. I went to my wife and told her, but I didn’t tell her it was her fault. And she didn’t understand that.
He says when he tells his friends he was fired because of his wife, they just said, “Well, you need to know exactly why that happened.”
Here’s how the divorce came about: Boombl4 says he decided to divorce his wife after being kicked out of NAVI:
I made the decision myself. As a joke, before we started dating, I told her, if I have to choose between you and the team, I’ll choose you. And that has had a bad revenge. After I got kicked out she acted like everything was fine, but it was a blow to me. I lost everything I’ve done in my life: my whole career, because of her. She denies it. That was a big blow to me.”
Since the divorce, his ex-wife has presented himself in strong poses on Instagram – alone or with her son from a previous relationship:
Woman posts video of Boombl4 using drugs after divorce
This is what he says about the relationship: Boombl4 says while he was with his wife, he transferred about $530,000 to her to pay off her mortgage, pay for her various cosmetic treatments, and pay for her child and her clothes.
Once she came out of the shower and didn’t have her teeth in her mouth. When he saw that, she was startled and quickly ran back to the bathroom. After the incident, she wrote a domestic violence report to the police.
He later found out that his wife had slept with another man just before he proposed marriage. But that was okay for him, because they had just been separated.
During the divorce, she confiscated his cell phone and searched for messages. Apparently she thought Boombl4 was gay. But he says: He only has one close friend.
After the divorce, she wanted to blackmail him for money and ultimately posted a video of him sucking drugs through his nose. The player says: That was once on vacation in Mexico, when he also promised to marry her.
– Ukraine Live Blog (via time)
– War in Ukraine (via nzz)
– Solidarity with Ukraine (via Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
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This is his lesson from marriage: The player says:
You need to listen to your friends, family and loved ones more often, but unfortunately I listened to my heart. Today I know that I should have listened to my head.
Now he really wants to play for a top team in CS:GO again. For which team, he doesn’t care at the moment. He is still young and wants a chance to prove himself.
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