Fashion model Chloe Ayling broke down while reflecting on her alleged kidnapping.
Ayling, 20, defended her story, despite its questioning by some, in which the model was first kidnapped in Milan, Italy, and eventually found herself shoe shopping with an “armed assassin.” She was said to have been injected with ketamine, shoved into the trunk of a car, and sent off to be sold into sex slavery.
The South London model recently told ITV’s “This Morning” program she blamed her agent for not doing sufficient background checks on a fake shoot she attended in Milan. “When I walked into the ‘studio’ there was just silence,” she explained. “Normally someone would greet you at the door, closer to the door, but I just didn’t hear anything.”
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“So that’s why when I saw the door saying ‘studio’ on it I went to open it, but before I had the time to quickly process my thoughts that is exactly when the masked man put his arm round my neck and my mouth and nose.”
Things supposedly got more horrific from there. “And another one came to the front of me and injected me in my wrist,” Ayling continued. “Two men, two masks. Absolute panic — I didn’t know what it was, I didn’t know why they were doing it. At this point I still thought someone wrong had got me and the shoot was still supposed to go on. I didn’t connect it as a setup.
“I woke up in the boot of a car in a zip-up bag and I had tape on my mouth and handcuffs on my feet and on my hands. It was a really hot day. It was horrible.”
“The car was moving and the radio was blaring as well, so I couldn’t really get the attention, so I had to really raise my voice, like ‘Driver, driver, where are we?’ And then it took a while for them to actually pull over the car and come round the back,” she recalled. “I saw through the gap that they’d put an empty suitcase above it, and at that point I thought that I was going to die.”
“Because what other reason would they put an empty suitcase about my size on top? I was hoping for a non-painful death. I tried to be as strong as possible.”
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Ayling said she was kept alive for almost a week while her captors tried to auction her off. At one point she found herself shoe shopping in Milan with her kidnappers, an incident that many on social media believe to be false. “It is really hurtful to see people doubt my story,” the model said. “Like when I went shoe shopping apparently, which was to the camping shop to get shoes for the consulate, people were saying why didn’t I run?”
“It’s easy for them to say that but when you’re in my situation it’s not that easy,” Ayling defended her decision. “I was with an assassin that’s always armed, I’d been shown knives. So I couldn’t just try and put my life in the hands of a random Italian woman. If I couldn’t communicate with her, or she didn’t care, then I’d risk my life.”
So how did she escape this traumatic capture? The captors, described as an online outfit called Black Death, supposedly released her after finding out she was the mother of a two-year-old boy.
