L.A. Kings star Slava Voynov is in hot water after he allegedly beat up his wife, and smashed her head into a televison.
According To TMX, Voynov’s wife pleaded with prosecutors to drop the felony domestic violence case against him because as she put–Voynov is no Ray Rice.
TMZ Sports obtained a letter sent by Slava’s wife, Marta Varlamova, to the L.A. County District Attorney in November … and in it she takes all the blame for the argument which she says started during a party at a friend’s house where she was drinking — but continued when they got home.
She claims Voynov was trying to go to sleep, but she kept pressing the issue and got physical … squeezing his shoulders and yelling, “No, I want to talk more.” Marta says he only pushed her when she refused to get out of his face. That’s when — as we’ve previously reported — she claims she turned and smashed her head into a flat screen TV in their bedroom.
In the letter, she describes how profusely she was bleeding and says, “I started yelling because it hurt quite a bit and I was very worried about whether I was going to need stitches and worried about how it would look.” She says they decided to go to the ER around 11:30 PM.
Marta, whose first language is Russian … claims she repeatedly told a police officer Slava did not try to kill her, and she was not afraid of him. As we’ve told you … she and Slava believe the officer did not understand her because her English is so poor.
In fact, during a hearing Monday … police testified the she had said Voynov punched, kicked and choked her. So, it appears there was a communication gap … or someone’s lying.
Marta ends the letter by pointing out she’s “heard about other athletes on the news” who did things that Slava didn’t … yet they were not charged. She’s clearly referring to Ray Rice … who got a pretrial intervention program instead of being prosecuted for punching his then-fiancee.