Kathryn Mayorga Once Accused Cristiano Ronaldo Of Rape And Now Tells Her Story
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On June 12, 2009, Mayorga—now a 34-year-old teacher but then a 25-year-old aspiring model—met Ronaldo in the VIP area of Rain, a nightclub at the Palms Casino. Prior to going to Rain that night, Mayorga had been working at a downtown bar along with other young women, getting paid to stand outside the venue and try to entice passers-by to go inside the establishment.
After work, Mayorga’s friend Jordan proposed the two meet up at Rain. While in the VIP area, Mayorga says “[Ronaldo] just came up to me ... grabbed my arm, and he was like: ‘You! Come with me!’” Mayorga notes that she found that behavior “strange.” She says Ronaldo laughed off her hesitance to join Ronaldo and his friends elsewhere in the club, but eventually he convinced her to let him buy her a drink.
The two chatted for a little while, and before long Ronaldo asked Mayorga for her phone number. She gave him her number, and the two then parted ways. Later that night, Ronaldo texted Mayorga asking her if she and her friends wanted to continue partying up in his penthouse in the Palms Place next door. Mayorga and Jordan agreed to go. The two women met Ronaldo and some of his friends in the hotel lobby and followed them up to Ronaldo’s room.
Upon arriving to the room, the group moved to the hot tub. At first, she tells Der Spiegel, Mayorga didn’t want to get into the water—she had a photo shoot the next day and told the others she didn’t want to ruin her dress by getting it wet—but when Ronaldo offered her a swimsuit, she agreed to get in.
Mayorga then went into the bathroom to change into the bathing suit. While she was in there, Ronaldo came into the adjoining bedroom. She says he had his penis pulled out. She continues:
“Basically he ... he begged me to touch his penis for 30 seconds,” she says. “When I wouldn’t touch it, he begged me to suck it. Like, what an idiot! (...) I was laughing at him because I thought, ‘Is this a joke?’ This guy that is so famous and so hot ... he’s a frickin’ loser and a creep.”
But Ronaldo allegedly wouldn’t be put off. “He was like, ‘I’ll let you go if you give me a kiss.’ I said, ‘OK, I’ll kiss you but I’m not going to touch your nasty penis.’” Mayorga insists that she only kissed him and didn’t touch him otherwise. And she says that the kiss only turned him on more.
“He starts to come on to me very strong. And he starts to do stuff to me and touch me and grab me and go down on me.” She says, she pushed him away and again told him no.
At that moment, one of his friends came in and asked: What are you doing? “I took the opportunity to quickly put my dress back on and said,” We’re coming out. “And he said yes, we’re coming.”
As Mayorga went to join the others by the hot tub, she says Ronaldo pulled her back into the bedroom. At that point, Mayorga says, “I was not really scared, I just did not think that’s how stubborn this guy is. I told him again that nothing would happen between us.” Ronaldo would not stop, though, and eventually anally raped her on the bed in spite of her protestations:
“I pushed him off again, he tried to take off my underwear, but he did not succeed, so I rolled myself up like a ball and tried to protect my vagina with both hands and then he was on top of me. “ She said “no, no, no, no”.
“When he was done, he still did not want to let me go, he looked guilty and suddenly started calling me ‘baby.’ ‘Baby, baby.’ I do not remember exactly the wording, but he also said ‘sorry’ and asked me if I was in pain, somehow getting on my knees and saying, ‘99 percent of me am a good guy, I do not know what to do this one percent is.’”
Here’s how she described the immediate aftermath:
“It all happened so fast, and I was so confused, it was like floating, like in a trance, I can not describe it, my next thought was: what if he had AIDS now, or some other disease? I asked him, and he said, ‘I’m a professional athlete, I’m tested every three months, and if I was ill, I would not be able to play.’”