{"id":2224935,"date":"2026-01-06T22:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T22:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2224935"},"modified":"2026-01-06T22:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T22:26:08","slug":"olympian-oksana-baiul-breaks-silence-after-losing-custody-of-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/olympian-oksana-baiul-breaks-silence-after-losing-custody-of-daughter\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympian Oksana Baiul Breaks Silence After Losing Custody of Daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Former Ukrainian Olympic skater <strong>Oksana Baiul<\/strong> is speaking out after <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/olympian-oksana-baiul-gives-up-custody-of-11-year-old-daughter-in-divorce-excl\/\">she lost custody of her daughter.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs I\u2019m sure anyone who has ever been through a separation or divorce knows, it is a lengthy and often devastating journey,\u201d Baiul, 48, wrote via <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/OfficialOksanaBaiul\/posts\/as-im-sure-anyone-who-has-ever-been-through-a-separation-or-divorce-knows-it-is-\/1168585168593520\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> on Monday, January 5. \u201cDivorce is hard enough, but when there is a child involved they must be the priority. As a mother, I ask that you please respect our privacy at this time as we move forward building our new future\u2026..\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Us Weekly<\/em> exclusively reported on Monday that Baiul\u2019s ex-husband, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/who-is-carlo-farina-meet-olympian-oksana-baiuls-ex-husband\/\"><strong>Carlo Farina<\/strong><\/a>, was given sole custody of their 11-year-old daughter, Sophia, as part of their divorce agreement. Baiul and Farina, who had been married for 13 years, informed the court in October 2025 that they had reached a deal covering custody, support and division of their shared property.<\/p>\n<p>The agreement gave Farina primary custody and allowed him to move from Louisiana to Las Vegas with their daughter. Baiul is allowed to see her daughter if Sophia agrees to visits, per the deal.<\/p>\n<p>The docs stated that Baiul agreed to enroll in anger management classes and be tested for alcohol and drugs to \u201censure she is remaining sober.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Baiul tied the knot with Farina, her manager, in 2012. Three years later, the former couple welcomed daughter Sophia. Farina <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/olympian-oksana-baiuls-ups-and-downs-gold-medals-divorce-and-more\/\">filed for divorce<\/a> from Baiul after 13 years of marriage in June 2025, claiming in court docs obtained by <em>Us<\/em> that the pair separated in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of his June 2025 filing, Farina alleged that he and Baiul were living in different homes in Louisiana. He asked for sole custody of their daughter, Sophia, with Baiul receiving supervised visitation due to her having an alleged\u201chistory of extreme physical, emotional, mental and verbal abuse\u201d toward him. He further claimed that the alleged abuse was captured on cameras in their former home.<\/p>\n<p>In an August 2025 response, Baiul denied all allegations of wrongdoing and claimed in her filing that the pair split on June 12, 2025 \u2014 not three years before. She opposed Farina\u2019s plea for sole custody of their daughter and asked the court to award the parents joint custody.<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__thumbnail related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/pictures\/celebrity-splits-divorces-of-2025-jessica-alba-and-cash-warren\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"00\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/pictures\/celebrity-splits-divorces-of-2025-jessica-alba-and-cash-warren\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"00\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Celebrity Splits of 2025: Mel Gibson, Rosalind Ross and More Breakups<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tA slew of breakups rocked the celebrity world throughout 2025. In January, two months after first sparking split rumors, Jessica Simpson announced that she and Eric Johnson had called it quits after 10 years of marriage. \u201cEric and I have been living separately navigating a painful situation in our marriage,\u201d she told Us Weekly in [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Baiul also accused Farina of being \u201cpsychologically abusive\u201d toward her and their daughter. She alleged that videos he presented in court showed him being abusive, not her. The exes reached an agreement that resolved the case weeks later.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of her divorce from Farina, Baiul \u2014 who won Gold in the ladies\u2019 single ice skating at the 1994 Winter Olympics \u2014 was arrested for a DUI in 1977 and subsequently checked into a rehabilitation program. She later shared that struggles with alcohol began when she started performing in ice skating tours.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExcept myself, nearly all the figure skaters on the bus were grown-ups, and it was full of alcohol. Most of the skaters were Russians and Americans, and they all drank,\u201d Baiul told the <em>Tribuana<\/em> in 2015. \u201cThat\u2019s when I tried it. I was very young, with no one to teach me the right. I thought it was the norm, \u2019cause as a teenager you don\u2019t want to break away from the majority.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.usmagazine.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Ukrainian Olympic skater Oksana Baiul is speaking out after she lost custody of her daughter. \u201cAs I\u2019m sure anyone who has ever been through a separation or divorce knows, it is a lengthy and often devastating journey,\u201d Baiul, 48, wrote via Facebook on Monday, January 5. \u201cDivorce is hard enough, but when there is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2224936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[22188,24003,21738],"class_list":["post-2224935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-breaking-news","tag-celebrity-news","tag-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Olympian-Oksana-Baiul-Breaks-Silence-After-Losing-Custody-of-Daughter.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2224935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2224937,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2224935\/revisions\/2224937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2224936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2224935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2224935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2224935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}