UES Woman Stabbed By Drunk Roommate Recounts Horror: Report

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — An Upper East Side woman nearly stabbed to death by her roommate during the coronavirus quarantine says she was just trying to help a long-time friend through a bout with alcoholism, according to an interview in the New York Daily News.

Tatiana Nazarinova told the Daily News that she took her attacker — 27-year-old Russian national Daria Alyabyeva — into her Upper East Side apartment when the woman had nowhere else to go. The two had been roommates in Los Angeles years before, but Alyabyeva's excessive drinking ended their friendship, according to the report.

Nazarinova tried to implement rules against drinking while giving Alyabyeva a place to stay, food and clothing, but the efforts failed when the new coronavirus outbreak forced them to spend long hours indoors.

"She would start drinking in the morning," Nazarinova told the Daily News. "She would go to the kitchen and grab a coffee cup and pretend she was drinking coffee or tea."

Alyabyeva snapped on April 19 when Nazarinova poured one of her drinks out in the apartment sink, according to prosecutors. Alyabyeva is accused of stabbing her roommate in the abdomen, hip, side, shoulder, face and hands, according to the complaint, according to a criminal complaint from the Manhattan District Attorney's office. Prosecutors charged Alyabyeva with second-degree attempted murder, and first-degree assault for the brutal attack.

Durting the attack, Alyabyeva told her roommate: "Die, b----, die," NYPD detectives told prosecutors. Police arrested the Russian native on Tuesday, nine days after the attack.

Nazarinova has since started a GoFundMe site to raise money for her recovery. The Upper East Sider, who is also a native of Russia, also lost her business during the coronavirus outbreak, according to the fund.

Nazarinova revealed in the fundraiser that she sent her mother a goodbye message as she waited for first responders to come to her apartment on the night of the stabbing. In her two-week stay at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital she received a massive blood transfusion, multiple surgeries and suturing to her wounds. One wound on her abdomen was so deep that doctors could no suture it, the woman wrote on her GoFundMe.

"It's so unpredictable how your life can become a total hell in a moment... Unfortunately this is exactly what happened to me," Nazarinova wrote in the fund's description.