Cristiano Ronaldo says he expects to be cleared in New Year of allegations he raped Kathryn Mayorga
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Cristiano Ronaldo has said he is ‘very confident’ he will be cleared ‘soon’ of a high profile rape allegation.
Former school teacher Kathryn Mayorga claims that the Juventus forward raped her at his Las Vegas hotel room in June 2009 and since going public with her case this year, Ronaldo has faced intense scrutiny.
‘It hurt me to see my family upset about the news, but they know I would never be able to do that,’ he told the newspaper, Record .
‘I was completely calm and very confident that soon everything will be clear,’ he added.
After Miss Mayorga filed her civil lawsuit in September this year, Las
Her lawyers have vowed to take the case all the way to the Supreme Court if needed.
But back in early October, Ronaldo – who had been silent until then, tweeted to say he firmly denied the allegations.
‘I firmly deny the accusations being issued against me. Rape is an abominable crime that goes against everything that I am and believe in.
‘Keen as I may be to clear my name, I refuse to feed the media spectacle created by people seeking to promote themselves at my expense,’ he said.
He followed that tweet with a further message, saying that his ‘clear conscience’ will allow him to await the results of an investigation ‘with tranquility’.
At the beginning of October, it had been reported that Miss Mayorga had left the US and wanted to avoid the cameras due to her emotional state.
In a press conference given by her lawyer on October 3, Mr Stovall said that she had experienced a lot of problems following the alleged rape.
