*Friends and family gathered Monday at the Calvary Community Church in Westlake, California, for the homegoing service of “Young and Restless” star Kristoff St. John, who was found dead Feb. 3 in his home at age of 52.
But one loved one who was noticeably absent was his Russian fiancée, Kseniya Mikhaleva, who says she was denied an emergency visa to attend the soap star’s funeral on Monday.
“Several weeks ago I applied for an ’emergency’ visa for the funeral to say goodbye my fiance and beloved,” she wrote on Instagram. “The reply from the Embassy was ‘No’. My heart is broken. I am going through this with a huge pain in my heart, and realize that I don’t have opportunity to say goodbye to him and put flowers on his grave.
“It is not right, not fair. Fly, my love, and finally find peace. Any person in my place would be torn into pieces. It’s scary, painful, and disgusting that I cannot be with my loved one and his family on his last journey to eternal peace. RIP @kristoffstjohn.”
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Although Mikhaleva was unable to attend, St. John’s father, Christopher, gave the eulogy, and was accompanied by the actor’s daughter, Lola, and his cousin on stage, yahoo.com reports.
“My baby boy Kristoff, I never planned to be standing here on this day. Honestly, I always thought that Kristoff would be standing here to talk about me,” he said.
In her Instagram post, Mikhaleva expressed her deepest sorrow over her fiancé’s untimely passing.
“For a year, I was the happiest women on Earth. That changed in a second,” she wrote. “I still cannot believe that Kristoff is gone, so early, so unexpectedly, one month after our last meeting in Moscow. In the two years that we were together, he taught me so much – how to love and be loved, how to open the best in other people, how to help people, and simply how to be a good human being. We planned to get married; we had many plans in the future together. With him gone, I have no idea what to do.”
Kristoff’s autopsy was completed 2 weeks ago. No cause of death was given.
St. John was buried beside his son Julian, who died by suicide following a lifelong battle with mental illness.
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