Eamonn Holmes has hit back at This Morning viewers for criticising model Chloe Ayling’s interview during Monday’s This Morning.
Chloe appeared on the show to recall her harrowing kidnapping experience. But viewers didn’t seem sympathetic towards the model and expressed their thoughts on Twitter.
Eamonn, 57, snapped at viewers following the interview after they claimed Chloe’s kidnapping was just for “publicity”.
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Chloe broke down in tears as she told hosts Eamonn and Ruth Langsford about her terrifying ordeal.
The 20-year-old was allegedly injected with drugs, handcuffed and stuffed in a bag to be sold as a sex slave after going to a fake fashion shoot Italy.
After the interview Eamonn read through tweets from viewers watching from home and didn’t hold back his thoughts after viewers refused to believe Chloe’s awful story.
He said: “I would say that 99.9% of you have very little sympathy with Chloe.
“There was no doubt that what we saw today was a very vulnerable young woman, she’s only 20 years of age remember.”
Ruth added: “Also the evidence from the police in Italy back up her story and say that she had a puncture wound on her wrist where syringe had gone in, and they found ketamine in her system.”
Eamonn interrupted: “They believe her.”
He continued: “‘Why was she posing for photos after the kidnapping?’ asked Sarah. That was three weeks after she was abducted.”
Ruth said: “And when people say that why didn’t she run? Why didn’t she try and get away? She didn’t even know where she was. She didn’t speak the language.
“She was terrified of this man.”
Continuing to hit out at viewers’ comments Eamon said: “‘She wasn’t really asked any difficult questions was she?’ said Craig.
“Really Craig, really? What questions would you ask her?”
Chloe appeared on the show Monday morning and was reduced to tears when telling her story.
Speaking about people claiming her story was “fake” Chloe admitted: “It is really hurtful to see people doubt my story.”
She continued: “Like when I went shoe shopping apparently, which was to a 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 easy. I was with an assassin that’s always armed, I was shown knives.”
Chloe, from Cousdon, South London, says she was snatched by a group called Black Death.
She said she walked into a “studio” for the photoshoot but was immediately grabbed by a masked man who put his arm across her neck, mouth and nose.
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“And another one came to the front of me and injected me in my wrist,” she said. “Two men, two masks – absolute panic. I didn’t know what it was, I didn’t know why they were doing it.
“At this thought I still thought someone wrong had got me and the shoot was still supposed to go on. I didn’t connect it as a set up.”
She was eventually let free and taken to the British Consulate in Milan. It was three weeks before she returned to the UK.