Lana alleges that she met Antony in September 2022 after she was asked to help him send money back to Brazil.
Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!Lana shared her account in an interview on the Brazilian TV show Domingo Espetacular, where she claimed that Antony had pushed her against a wall after attempting to kiss her. She emphasized that there was no sexual abuse involved and that she had no romantic involvement with Antony, stating that he pushed her when she declined his advances.
In response to these allegations, Antony provided a statement to Brazilian news outlet Globo. In the statement, he mentioned a WhatsApp conversation with an individual named Ingrid, where he claimed that she had expressed a clear intention to meet him intimately and had asked him about lingerie preferences. Antony stated that he had arranged for her to visit him in Manchester, and they had an intimate and consensual encounter at a hotel. However, due to scheduling issues, he was unable to meet her again, and she returned to Brazil.
Antony asserted that all the details of this encounter were supported by WhatsApp messages, although he did not publish them in full to respect privacy. He also indicated his willingness to provide evidence of his innocence through appropriate channels and cooperate with any necessary investigations.
The situation is ongoing, and further developments may arise as investigations continue and additional information becomes available.
‘Out of nowhere, he tried to kiss me,’ she said.
‘He changed the subject and came at me. I said, ‘what’s going on?’. I went and said, ‘I don’t want it’. Then he pushed me against the wall with hatred. I hit my head against the wall.
‘I said, ‘what’s going on, Antony? I’ve never seen you like this’. And said to me, ‘what did you come here for then?’. I said, ‘Antony, I came to talk about business. Did you invite me for this? I don’t understand what you want’.’
Lana claims Antony apologised to her and asked not to make the incident public.
‘Then tears filled his eyes, he asked me for forgiveness, he said it was all in his head,’ Lana said.
‘He said to me, ‘for the love of God, don’t report me because now I’m going to play in the World Cup in a month, two months at most. It could harm me’. I said, ‘there’s no blood or anything, but it hurt, whether I wanted to or not, it was an attack’. Like, I didn’t have anything to do with him so he could attack me. I don’t think he has ever been told ‘no’.’
Following Lana’s interview, Antony published a series of screenshots of a WhatsApp conversations, allegedly with Lana, on his Instagram stories. The United winger claims it was a ‘single meeting’ that was ‘consensual’.
In the screenshots, the person messaging Antony offers to wait for him ‘naked in bed’. In subsequent messages, Antony is annoyed after finding out that the conversations have been saved via a screenshot.
In his message on Instagram before revealing the WhatsApp messages, Antony wrote: ‘I wouldn’t like to, but I’m being forced to publish a small part of the WhatsApp conversations with Ingrid, which shows that we only had a single meeting, intimate and consensual.
‘This matter with this fraudster will be resolved in court.’
