Things really seem to be going at a steady pace for Mel Gibson and his Russian girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva. After making their first public splash at the Wolverine premiere not even one month ago, rumors quickly surfaced that Oksana was already pregnant. The original report came from The National Enquirer, and they claimed she was well into the end of her first trimester. TMZ “confirmed” that report on Monday, but so far neither Mel nor Oksana has said anything publicly. But that may change very soon… Oksana’s mom is talking to the press!

Oksana’s mother’s name is Lyudmila Chernukha, and she lives in a home outside of Moscow. Magically, People Magazine was able to get an exclusive statement from Ms. Chernukha. People Magazine must have opened up a Moscow bureau. Since I don’t want to keep typing her name, I’m just going to call this woman “Mom”. Mom tells People that she cannot confirm those pesky rumors that her daughter is pregnant with Mel Gibson’s love child, only giving this cryptic non-denial: “Wait for the official statement from them.” For the love of…

A mother always knows – even if she won’t tell.

Lyudmila Chernukha, a retired Russian music teacher whose daughter Oksana Grigorieva is dating Mel Gibson, denies Oksana broke up the actor’s marriage, but remains mum on rumors the pair are expecting a child.

“I can’t say anything,” Chernukha, speaking in Russian, tells PEOPLE exclusively from her home outside of Moscow. “Wait for the official statement from them.”

Chernukha, who started her daughter on piano lesson when she was 3, said that Oksana – a singer signed to Gibson’s record label – started seeing him well after the actor and his wife separated, which the mother says happened in 2006.

“He split up with his wife three years ago, so to suggest that she has broken up their marriage is rubbish,” she says. “He was no longer with his wife so he was bound to meet some woman at some point, it just happened to be Oksana.”

Gibson’s wife of 28 years, Robyn, filed for divorce April 13 citing “irreconcilable differences” but not stating a date when they split. Gibson says they separated in August 2006, less than a month after his notorious DUI incident.

Gibson, 53, and Grigorieva, 39, confirmed they were dating when they made a surprise red carpet appearance April 28 at the Los Angeles premiere of X-Men Origins: Wolverine amid Internet and newspaper reports that Grigorieva is pregnant. Gibson’s rep has declined comment.

Grigorieva, meanwhile, has been living with her son Alexander (by her former boyfriend, actor Timothy Dalton), in a Sherman Oaks home owned by a trust linked to Gibson’s production company while working on a record. According to her mom, she has come down with acute homesickness.

“I talk to her all the time and she really misses Russia, ” says Chernukha, who along with Grigorieva’s father Pytor, often visits their daughter in California. “It’s her homeland.”

[From People Magazine]

Chuckle. Yes, I’m sure Oksana “misses Russia” but consoles herself every night with the suitcases full of cash Mel is paying her. Too rough? I apologize, but this woman looks like she only gets turned on by three things: cash, jewelry and cash. Considering Mom is releasing this kind of non-denial, too coy half statement, I’d say Oksana really is knocked up. However, I will give Oksana the benefit of the doubt on one thing – I don’t really think she was this all-powerful homewrecker who made Mel Gibson leave his wife. I think Mel and Robyn were already having lots of problems, and Mel was seeing several women on the side, and Oksana was just the one who stuck around the longest.