There’s been a lot of suspicion surrounding the allegations made by Chloe Ayling about her kidnap ordeal, but today the model appeared on This Morning to set the record straight.
“It is really hurtful to see people doubt my story,” she said, while also blaming her agent for not doing proper checks before she went on the fake photo shoot that led to her kidnap.
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“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.
“And another one came to the front of me and injected me in my wrist,” she said on This Morning. “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.”
Chloe claims she was forced into the boot of a car and taken to a village near Turin. She says was handcuffed, had tape put on her mouth, and was told that she would be sold as a sex slave.
She was eventually let free and taken to the British Consulate in Milan. It was three weeks before she returned to the UK.
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Referring to Phil Green, her agent at Supermodel Agency, she said: “I can’t help but blame him.”
She added that she would be changing modelling agency.
Phil had earlier appeared on Good Morning Britain and said that Chloe had been “humiliated” by the experience but had been telling the truth.
He said they’d had the “huge stress of trying to get her released” and they’d had to “live that ordeal, deal with ransom notes”.
He said Chloe had been the most successful model within his agency and they’d had over £200,000 worth of work offered since the ordeal.