Without intention, football player Laura Freiegel made public that she lived with a woman.
“It was a friend that I had a friend. I actually wanted to save the video privately for myself and accidentally uploaded it,” said the 27-year-old striker of Eintracht Frankfurt in a “Tagesspiegel” interview.
Free pass: “Wasn’t wanted to hide”
The video had posted freely after the European Championship on her vacation in August at Tiktok.
It was nevertheless the best way “because I didn’t want to hide anything anyway,” according to the Olympic third of 2024 and EM second from 2023. “Nevertheless, I never really wanted to come out because it is not a fact that a statement deserves. We move in times when this is unfortunately not yet normal.”
“However, the outing is the opposite of what I want for my life,” said Freiang. It was surprised that it was considered so interesting, the 42-time international continued. “If you go public with something like that so that positive things do and get people to open up to the topic, that’s something nice.”