Superstar footballer Cristiano Ronaldo last night denied cheating on
his girlfriend with a Brazilian model who won the title ‘Miss BumBum’ in
a catwalk competition.
He says although he was at hotel, everything else is ‘fiction and forgery’.
Andressa Urach had claimed the Real Madrid striker slept with her in a
hotel just 48 hours before a key Champions League semi final which his
team lost 4-1 to German side Borussia Dortmund.
The 27-year-old told The Sun: ‘I have always thought Cristiano is one
of the most gorgeous men in the world, so I couldn’t believe it when he
got in touch with me.
‘He said he was very excited by my pictures online and one of the
first things he asked me was if I really was a Miss Butt Brazil model.’
But Ronaldo said in a statement on Twitter last night: ‘I was
informed that The Sun, faithful to its editorial line, will publish an
article where is given voice to a so called Andressa – someone seeking
the limelight on my account.
‘And I wonder why this happens one day before a very important game
for my team. Deeply outraged by a situation intended, in vain, to affect
my personal life.
‘I just want to clarify I was in fact at the Hotel Villa Magna on
April 22 giving an interview to Manu Sainz, something the reporter
himself is able to corroborate. Everything else is pure fiction and
forgery.’
The woman had told The Sun it happened a day after the £80million
former Manchester United forward was pictured leaving a restaurant in
Madrid with his girlfriend Irina Shayk. Miss Shayt, 27, had her arms
crossed and wore a downcast face.
Speaking about their tryst, she said: ‘It was incredible, his body’s
perfect, like a Greek god. He went on for hours and would not stop
talking about my butt.’
Miss Urach claimed Ronaldo told her he had dreamed about her behind
and called her his ‘little horse’ before asking her to come to Madrid
and meet up.
Miss Urach told how the pair linked up at the city’s £12,500-a-night
Villa Magna hotel after she took a taxi there and waited for him in the
lobby.
The
day before: Ronaldo was snapped leaving the restaurant with his
girlfriend the day before the alleged tryst. She looked furious
He arrived in a grey Audi R3 and parked in an underground car park
before taking a private lift to his room, from where he texted her his
room number, The Sun reported.
Ronaldo is dating Russian beauty Miss Shayk, who is known as one of the world’s top swimwear and lingerie models.
On Thursday she was in the UK attending the launch of the new Eleven Paris store in London.
The couple started dating three years ago - just weeks before Ronaldo
announced he had become a father to a baby son with an unnamed American
mother.
Although the Real Madrid player announced he had ‘exclusive
guardianship’ of the tot Cristiano Jnr, his mother Dolores is helping to
raise the child in Portugal.
Over the past few years, Irina seemed to have embraced the role as
surrogate stepmother to the child and has been seen doting over the
little boy on frequent occasions.
However, since they started dating in May 2010, the couple regularly go for weeks or sometimes months without seeing each other.
Irina is based in New York for her modelling work, but travels all
over the world, while Ronaldo splits his time between Madrid and his
native Portugal.