Rolling drunk Ronnie, 61, 'runs off with 18-year-old waitress'

Ronnie Wood has left his wife of 23 years for an 18-year-old Russian cocktail waitress, it was claimed today.

The Rolling Stone, 61, is said to have taken Ekaterina Ivanova to his home in Ireland, leaving his wife Jo behind at the family home in Kingston upon Thames. Wood, an alcoholic who is said to have "fallen off the wagon", met her three months ago after the Leicester Square premiere of Martin Scorsese's documentary about the Rolling Stones, Shine A Light.

Jo, 53, said she believed the pair had gone on a painting holiday together.

"They're not boyfriend and girlfriend - not in that way."

However, Ekaterina has been using Facebook to tell friends she and the guitarist are having a relationship. A friend told The Sun: "She is absolutely besotted with Ronnie. She has told everyone Ronnie has left his wife for her and they are a full-on item. "Ekaterina said Jo had told her she knew what was going on and begged her not to take her husband away. She claimed she told Jo, ' I am not taking him. He is leaving.'"

A source close to Wood told the paper: "Ronnie is not being his normal self. He is an alcoholic and he's fallen off the wagon. He is drinking two bottles of vodka a day and there is no way he would be behaving like this if he was sober.

"He went out and found himself a drinking partner - that is what this girl is. He knows that his family wouldn't tolerate him behaving like this so he has run away to go and drink himself crazy."