A BRITISH model who was drugged and kidnapped in Italy says that people still don’t believe her story.
Chloe Ayling has been accused by trolls online of staging her own kidnapping, in a horror which she says “never ends”.
SuppliedChloe revealed in her documentary that she still battles with doubters who claim that she faked her kidnapping[/caption]
Shutterstock EditorialChloe appeared on Lorraine to speak about the traumatic experience[/caption]
InstagramChloe was a successful model before the kidnapping[/caption]
When the model was 21, she was drugged and kidnapped after travelling to Milan, Italy, for a photoshoot.
Upon arriving at the “studio” on that day in 2017, she was driven to a remote warehouse in Truin by Lukasz Herba.
Herba was a 30-year-old computer programmer from Oldbury, West Midlands, who held Chloe hostage for a week.
He was eventually arrested and jailed for his crime.
However, in a new documentary, Chloe revealed that the horror from the kidnapping “never ends”.
Despite Herba being jailed for 16 years and nine months for kidnapping her, the model revealed that she still faces backlash online for speaking out about his crime.
Some trolls even accused her of making the entire story up.
Chloe said: “It is always people who don’t know the facts, they judge too quickly and jump in before knowing the full story.
“You can never get offended by it really because they don’t know.”
The star later appeared on Lorraine to promote the documentary, where she opened up more about how the doubters made her feel.
She said: “I thought it would be easy, I am really not good at talking about my feelings.
“I had to relive it again and I got emotional about things I hadn’t before.”
On the ITV chat show, she also spoke about how she responded to the backlash.
Chloe said: “I was constantly having to talk about his crazy decisions as if they were my own.
“It was my calmness that saved me.”
Her heartbreaking documentary – entitled My Unbelievable Kidnapping – will air on BBC Three at 9pm tonight.
It follows Chloe’s recovery from the incident, as well as how she dealt with the scrutiny over a photograph of her shown holding her kidnapper’s hand in an Italian village.
Speaking about how she remained so calm in CCTV footage, Chloe said: “I had to get him on side to be able to get out.
“I want to show a victim doesn’t have to fit into a typical box to be believed.”
A TV series dramatising the event was released on the BBC last year, entitled Kidnapped: The Chloe Ayling Story.
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Ian Whittaker – The SunChloe revealed that she had to relieve the incident for the documentary[/caption]
Ray Collins – The SunShe was held in a village in Turin[/caption]
Herba was jailed for 16 years for the crimePeter Jordan – The Sun
Police reconstructed the kidnapping as part of their investigationEnterprise News and Pictures
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