In an interview, Klimova noted that first of all she feels like a mother, and only then - an actress. She considers the important qualities for a woman to be the ability to be wise, quick-witted, trust intuition and hear, first of all, the voice of her heart, and not of reason; recognizes himself as “ "jealous to the point of insanity" ” . For many years, the acting family of Klimova and Petrenko was considered exemplary in the press, regularly covered in glossy magazines and on television. Assessing the disintegration of a marriage that seemed to be strong, Catherine publicly asked for forgiveness “ "from everyone who believed in our love, took an example from us" ”; Igor Petrenko, in an interview for the media, laid on himself a significant share of the blame for what had happened, after the fact he characterized his ex-wife by passion as a " "real predator" ", not at all like a lamb, mentioned Catherine's brief flirtation with musician Roman Arkhipov in Las Vegas, but at that "At the" same time, he expressed the opinion that “there is "probably no better mother or wife in this world" ”. 