The mother of a Russian model campaigning against Vladimir Putin's invasion told her boy "you are no longer my son" and called him a "traitor" for his advocacy.
Jean-Michel Scherbak, 30, started using his platform to educate people about the conflict almost immediately after Putin ordered his soldiers to storm the streets of Ukraine at the end of February.
But Jean-Michel's mother - a die-hard Putin supporter - was enraged by her son's comments - so much that she's now disowned him, and even blocked him on social media.
Speaking to CNN this week, Jean-Michel shared the callous message she sent him after he transferred her money.
She said: "Don't send anything, I will just send it back.
"I don't communicate with Russophobes and traitors to the Motherland.
"I sincerely wish that you would give up your Russian passport and leave this country in any direction.
"You are no longer my son. There will be no traitors in my family."
Her twisted comments came after Jean-Michel wrote on social media that he was ashamed of Russia for starting the horrific war.
Jean-Michel, who was speaking from Germany after leaving Moscow, said he felt compelled to comment publicly on the war after receiving messages from friends in Ukraine about the horrors of Moscow's bombing campaign.
These friends sent him videos and pictures of the buildings, streets and families destroyed by Putin's shelling - which he would then post, coordinating with the "propaganda" and lies being fed to the public through state media.
He told CNN: "People who live far from the big cities, they turn on their TV and they see propaganda news only.
"And they believe official media more than independent media."
Before moving to Berlin, Jean-Michel said he made one last attempt to patch things up with his mum.
Speaking to Reuters at the start of March, Jean-Michel said it was not the first time his mum had tried forcing her political views on him.
"She was always trying to convince me, to talk sense into me because she is a mother, she is clever and I am stupid," he said.
Similar scenes have been playing out and causing family rifts across Russia since the start of the war.
Daria, 25, from Yekaterinburg, said last month she has to avoid the topics where she and her mum "don't exactly see eye to eye" in order to not cause a major rift in her family.
"I have made it clear to myself that she is in the worst position emotionally right now and she needs help and support," Daria said.
But she has been trying to offer different points of view - and her mum was shocked when Daria showed her videos of police draped in riot gear arresting protesters.
Daria rejoices in what she calls "small victories".
Alex, a 28-year-old game tester who lives with his wife in Gdansk, Poland, said his parents in Russia told him to delete his social media posts about the war in Ukraine, warning it could be dangerous for him to share his views.
Alex's parents called him every day since the conflict began, and each call would lead to arguments and shouting between him and his mother.
His father, some of whose relatives are fighting on opposing sides in Ukraine, remained more neutral.
To save their relationship, Alex stopped posting the news. His wife changed the privacy settings of her own account and continued to share articles about the Ukraine conflict.
