ALEX Scott has revealed the moment an Uber driver tried to kidnap her and mentioned: “Ladies like you, I kill.”
The soccer star, 38, says her “physique went numb” when the driver instructed her he was not dropping her house – however as a substitute taking her elsewhere.
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She recalled fearing she would by no means see her mum once more, and texting her agent to “ship a search celebration” if she wasn’t again quickly.
The horror unfolded whereas Alex was working for the BBC on the World Cup in Moscow in 2018.
She says the one manner she managed to flee was by convincing the “sicko” she was a good friend of Russian president Vladimir Putin – who she had solely met that morning.
The 38-year-old recalled the horror in her memoir, titled How (Not) To Be Robust.
In her ebook, Alex instructed how the BBC often insisted employees use official, pre-booked vehicles whereas on work journeys.
However, having gone for a drink with a good friend, she determined to get an Uber for the 15-minute journey again to the lodge she was staying.
Alex recalled that simply minutes into the journey the driver, who was “a stacked bald man, stocky, and carrying a smile on his face”, turned to her.
The Mirror reported Alex wrote in her ebook: “He checked out me and mentioned – in English – ‘Inform them they’ll by no means see you once more.’
“‘I don’t perceive,’ I stammered.”
The previous Lioness mentioned the driver then picked up his telephone and spoke to it in Russian.
She mentioned he was ready for her to see the phrases as they appeared on Google Translate.
She recalled her “physique went numb” as she noticed the phrases: “‘Tonight I am not taking you house,’ [it] learn. ‘You include me.’”
Alex described how, by means of the driver’s telephone translation and his damaged English, he started telling her “horrible, horrible issues: how he takes women like me, how they by no means make it house”.
She mentioned she frantically messaged her agent from throughout the locked automobile and “instructed him if I wasn’t again in quarter-hour to ship a search celebration”.
However the driver’s subsequent haunting message delivered by way of his telephone was: “Ladies like you, I kill.”
Alex recollects: “‘Oh my God,’ was my first thought… ‘I’m by no means going to see Mum once more.’”
Then, she had a brainwave – that she had been with Putin that morning.
Alex wrote in her ebook: “‘You possibly can’t kill me,’ I mentioned. ‘I have to see Putin tomorrow.’
“He began laughing. ‘Nobody sees Putin’. I was scrambling now, pulling up pictures from the morning’s go to to the Kremlin that had made newspaper headlines.
“His laughter died and I may see the cogs whirring as he tried to course of what I was displaying him. ‘If I don’t see Putin tomorrow, he’ll discover you.’”
She mentioned virtually immediately the Uber was heading again in direction of her lodge.
As they pulled up, the driver tried to contact her legs and kiss her earlier than she clambered out.
Alex added: “I knew then what a near-miss I’d had however, fairly than confront it, I simply… brushed apart the incident like it had by no means occurred.
“I didn’t need individuals to fear about me or assume I couldn’t deal with myself – simply like when I was younger.”
