I was born in Nizhny Novgorod to a very poor family and unfortunately my father and mother separated when I was very little.

My father is from Bosnia, and my mother is from Croatia, but I was born in Sweden.

I raised my sister. I was six when she was born. My mother had to make a living for herself and it was very hard, so I was looking after my sister, cooking and cleaning, and she had four jobs.

I was born into a family of preachers.

I feel like trouble has followed me from the day I was born.

Before I left Russia in 1999, I was living in a very poor factory town with my family and friends, and nothing was ever going to change.