Polyakova on her clip: I am as much God's daughter as Christ was Son of God

Polyakova in the image of Christ. Photo: screenshot of the YouTube channel The Nogi

Ukrainian singer Olya Polyakova held a livestream with UOC priest Maksymian Pohorelovskyi dedicated to her controversial music video “Ne Na Chasi” ["Bad Timing"] in which she appeared in the image of the crucified Christ.

Polyakova herself initiated the livestream because, as she believes, after the video was released, haters unfairly accused her of blasphemy.

During the livestream, Polyakova said that she has “her own relationship with God, so to speak.” The singer called herself Orthodox, though not churchgoing: “As they say, I go, like many people, once a year at Easter to have eggs blessed.” She also stressed that she had sung in a church choir for four years.

According to her, there was no blasphemy in the video because she did not have a beard like Christ. “I was not in the image of Christ, because Christ is a man, He has a beard, He has a mustache. I was metaphorically portrayed as a person whom the crowd condemns and executes for her convictions,” the singer said.

At the same time, elsewhere in the livestream she drew a direct parallel between herself and the Savior: “In the same way that Christ was once stoned by people who had never heard His sermons, today they are stoning me without even watching my video. Does it not seem to you that the parallel here is somehow very similar?”

According to her, “I am now even in this role – even stoned, crucified and condemned.” However, Poliakova soon again said that she was not comparing herself to Christ, while at the same time stressing that she is “just as much a daughter of God as He [Christ – Ed.] was the Son of God.”

When Fr. Maksymian asked whether she regretted making the video and whether she would act differently now, knowing people’s negative reaction, Poliakova replied that she would not change anything, since she had done “absolutely nothing blasphemous” in the video. She also suggested that her video could have been “God’s providence.”

“My soul is clean before God. And if that is not so, He will deal with me personally,” the singer said.

Earlier, the UOJ reported that online users were outraged by the music video in which singer Poliakova appeared in the image of Christ.

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