At a concert in Sochi Leps was presented with a provocative gift — I had to give it to him

At a concert in Sochi, which took place last weekend at the Festivalny Concert Hall, to the People's Artist of Russia Grigory Leps, who was born in Sochi, presented a bottle of cognac. A video recording of a fragment of the concert was published by the telegram channel Sochi-online.

Someone from the artist's fans simply put the donated bottle in the foreground. Seeing the bottle, Leps approached her, imitating a heavily drunk man, examined her with interest and stated: "Ararat".

Without leaving the image of a person abusing alcohol, Leps went to the guitarist.

"I'm not drinking, it's just you every day...", — Leps joked and with the same unsteady gait went to the microphone stand.

The audience appreciated the joke, laughter rang out in the hall.

In his telegram channel, Leps warmly thanked the Sochi residents for the reception, noting that "the final seventh concert this season was a success."

As reported by EADaily, in numerous interviews Leps has repeatedly talked about his relationship with alcohol. At the International Music Festival in Vitebsk in July this year, according to the portal MK.ru , he refused to comply with the request from the audience, one of the fans shouted: "Give me a glass of vodka."

Leps turned in the direction of the voice and answered: "Why would you? You'll be an alcoholic like me."

In February last year, in an interview with Channel Five, the artist said that he was not going to stop drinking.

"No, but why? I've always had a healthy lifestyle. Who says it hurts? I knew a lot of people who died at 30 from a heart attack without drinking a single glass of wine," Leps claimed.

He also said that many consider him a drunkard, and he does not want to disappoint people.