Juventus star Cristiano Ronaldo admitted that he felt "embarrassed" when he was accused of rape by a woman in the United States and tried to protect his family from this situation.
Ronaldo was accused by Kathryn Mayorga of having raped her at a Las Vegas hotel in June 2009.
Winner of five Champions Leagues, Ronaldo again denied the accusations and argued that the investigation had been closed 10 years ago.
However, the case was reopened in August 2018, shortly before Mayorga filed a civil lawsuit in September and offered new details that he had initially hidden.
The prosecution finally announced last July that the prosecutors announced that they would not impute the player when they consider that "allegations of sexual abuse against Cristiano Ronaldo cannot be proven beyond any reasonable doubt."
The former player of Manchester United and Real Madrid admits in an interview with the journalist Piers Morgan, which will be issued on Tuesday, that the accusations affected him mentally when he tried to protect his children from the information that appeared in the press.
"(The journalists) play with your dignity," Ronaldo complains in the interview to the 'Good Morning Britain' program, from which extracts were published this Monday.
"It's hard. They have a girlfriend, a family, children. When they play with your honesty it's bad and very hard," he adds.
"I remember one day I was at home in the living room with my girlfriend watching TV to watch the news and they talk about" this and that of Cristiano Ronaldo. "
"I heard that my children were going down the stairs and I changed the channel because I was embarrassed … I changed the channel so that Cristiano Jr didn't see how bad they talked about their father in a very bad case," he concludes.
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