The declaration of Jenni Hermosothe Spanish national team player who received a non-consensual kiss from Luis Rubiales, the president of the Spanish federation after winning the Women’s World Cup. “At no time was it consensual, I did not feel respected,” the soccer player told the prosecutor, as Mediaset revealed exclusively on its program ‘Code 10’.
“I don’t deserve all this. They tarnished my image, I felt that no one was protecting me. They were asking me to protect them, to help them, but at no time did I feel that no one was protecting me,” he had explained in his statement. “They told me that we had to take the issue down because she was getting into a lot of trouble,” the player denounced in her statement.
“Pressure from people who only wanted to hurt me”
“I don’t deserve to have experienced all this, for me it is very difficult not to be able to leave the house,” added the soccer player, remembering everything she had to experience after that non-consensual kiss. “Having had to leave Madrid to not have that pressure I was having from people who only wanted to hurt me, why did I have to be in a repressed room if I had done nothing?”
“They told me that we had to lighten the issue because it was getting too complicated. I don’t deserve to have lived through all this, it’s very difficult for me not to be able to leave the house”
Spanish player
Jenni Hermoso revealed what happened when she was about to receive the world champion trophy. “The first thing I said to him when I hugged him was ‘what we’ve got into’. He jumps on me, I stand firm to support us. The one who went down told me that ‘we had won this World Cup thanks to me,'” he explained to the prosecutor in the only point in which he agreed with the version of Rubiales, the president who resigned from the federation over this case.
“They tarnished my image, I felt that no one was protecting me. They were asking me to protect them, to help them, but at no time did I feel that no one was protecting me”
Spanish player
“The next thing I remember is his hands on my head and I don’t remember hearing anything else2,” says the Spanish national team player after insisting that she only told him “what we’ve messed up.” In that sense, Hermoso has specified that the The leader told her “that we won the World Cup thanks to me and I don’t remember anything else, my hands on my head and I kissed myself,” Jenni reiterates.
“I didn’t expect it, I didn’t expect it…”
A forced kiss, according to the testimony revealed by Mediaset. “I didn’t expect it, I didn’t expect it to be on that stage… It was the World Cup medal ceremony. A lot of emotion, a lot of joy, but I didn’t look for that moment or do anything for this event to take place,” he explained. the soccer player before the prosecutor, confessing that that kiss from Rubiales surprised her.
“At that moment I was in shock. It was a historical event, it had cost us our lives, at no time could I expect something like that to happen. I hugged the Queen, her daughter… Rubiales was a trustworthy person, I did not think “that I was going to do something like that. I didn’t have time to react, I immediately went down to the platform and the first thing I did was tell my two teammates, Alexia Putellas and Irene Paredes,” the player continued explaining.
“At no point was it consensual. I felt disrespected, I was not respected either as a player or as a person. I was experiencing something historic and I thought that something like that was going to have consequences. I did nothing to find myself in that situation,” he said. sentenced regretting that non-consensual kiss by Rubiales.
As soon as he left the then president of the Federation, Jenni Hermoso told her colleagues Irene Paredes and Alexia Putellas just when they were about to receive the trophy that accredited them as world champions.
“The first thing I said when I saw Alexia and Irene was, ‘hey, Rubiales just kissed me on the mouth,'” Jenni Hermoso tells the prosecutor in the recording. Words that were later ratified by both soccer players in their judicial statement.
The notice? “I didn’t write anything”
“In that moment of euphoria… I misunderstood and understood that the Queen had given him a kiss. As it was a moment in which they were going to bring us the Cup, I didn’t pay much attention to it. When we got to the locker room I said, that’s not well,” was what Irene Paredes said in her statement. Along the same lines was the presentation of Alexia Putellas, who was already on the bus, and upon seeing the images of that non-consensual kiss, she realized the seriousness of the situation.
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The prosecutor asked him if he spoke to Rubiales again. “Not personally, but there were several moments. For the bus, there was a deadly silence and they began to tell me from the front to get off quickly, that the Rubiales team was there. I said: ‘Why?’ And I told them : ‘I’m going to get the suitcases.’ But I didn’t have time. Not even my backpack. They showed me a piece of writing that I didn’t say a single word about. We have to put this down and take the issue down. And I told them: ‘Do what you want.’ you want’.
“I didn’t write or say a single word of that writing. Patricia Pérez, the national team’s press manager, was the one who showed me that writing. I said: ‘I don’t have to do this, I don’t want to do it.’ “I felt like I was forced to do something. I felt coerced.”
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And then Jenni Hermoso reaffirms that that statement was false: “I remember the moment of euphoria, of joy. I did not write or say a single word of that writing. Patricia Pérez, the press manager of the National Team, was the one who He showed me that writing. I said: ‘I don’t have to do this, I don’t want to do it’. I was feeling like I was forced to do something. I felt coerced. In the end I think that they are just as hardworking and they had to do this “He didn’t come to say that he was going to put out that statement, it was other parties. There I think he already knew the magnitude of the matter.”