  By using the quark part of the energy-momentum tensor current, the
gravitational formfactors of the $ \rho $ meson are calculated within the
light-cone sum rules method. In the considered version, the energy-momentum
tensor current is not conserved and as a result, there appear nine formfactors,
six (three) of which correspond to the conservation (nonconservation) of the
energy-momentum tensor current. We also compare our results with the one
existing in the literature.
