What is the cause of death of Vakhtang Kikabidze: brain tumor, kidney failure, stress

The death of a beloved wife caused wild stress

In an interview with “MK” singer Olga Zarubina saida, that the state of health of Vakhtang Kikabidze deteriorated sharply after the death of his beloved wife. The artist has been married to the ballerina Irina Kebadze, the prima ballerina of the Tbilisi Opera House, since 1965. They met, oddly enough, on the street in Budapest.

“Vakhtang loved her incredibly, he went through a lot of stress,” Zarubina said. Irina Kebadze died in October last year at the age of 89 – they said that from the coronavirus, but at the same time Kikabidze’s wife had been ill for many years – she probably had oncology.

Doctors found a brain tumor

Four years ago, Vakhtang Kikabidze spoke for the first time on television about his struggle with cancer. According to the actor, when he was about fifty years old, he suddenly fell, losing his bearings. Doctors saw a problem with an artery that did not let blood through. During the operation, both a cyst and a tumor were immediately found in the brain. After surgery and treatment, the actor was so weak that he could not even hold a spoon himself.

Writer and screenwriter Victoria Tokareva in an interview with MK said that the artist I had a very hard time post-surgery. – tried not to move his head, constantly holding it straight. Tokareva was struck by the vitality of Kikabidze – no one thought that he would endure such a difficult intervention and be able to return to full-fledged work. But he did.

Olga Zarubina recalls: on the first joint tour in the eighties, Vakhtang Konstantinovich suddenly became ill. The pressure skyrocketed. Then Irina Kebadze, giving up everything, flew on tour to be with her husband, and nursed him.

Kidney failure and dialysis for ten years

In recent years, Vakhtang Kikabidze also suffered from kidney failure. This ailment at certain stages (and it is not so easy to identify it early) alas, is incurable. The condition of patients can be maintained either by a hardware replacement of the activity of the kidney – dialysis, or by transplantation, which not every organism can endure.

Singer Aziza in an interview with MK said that Vakhtang Konstantinovich was constantly on dialysis. This situation confirmed to us by Victoria Tokareva. Moreover, the difficult procedure for the artist was carried out every other day – he had to spend several hours connected to the apparatus, an artificial kidney.

The actor’s girlfriend Nana Kelaprishvili, when MK contacted her, was in the hospital where Vakhtang Kikabidze died. Nana reported: artist has been on dialysis for the past ten years. She described the cause of death as follows: “Apparently, the body’s resources have run out.”

Aziza, on the other hand, linked the worsening of the artist’s condition with psychosomatics – a deep inner pain that Kikabidze experienced both because of his wife’s departure and because of political problems.

Stylist George Rovals told us that the artist will be buried in Tbilisi at the cemetery Pantheon Mtatsminda.