Alex Scott said she had to use photos with Russian president Vladimir Putin to escape from a situation which left her 'numb'
Arsenal and England Women legend Alex Scott has revealed her life was threatened by a taxi driver while working at the 2018 World Cup in Russia.also said she had to use photos with Russian president Vladimir Putin to escape from the situation which left her ‘numb’.Scott was working at the 2018 tournament and said the BBC made sure all staff used official pre-booked cars while on duty.
The car doors were locked and she messaged her agent and ‘told him if I wasn’t back in 15 minutes to send a search party’. “Putin! I had been with Putin that morning!” she thought. “‘You can’t kill me,’ I said. ‘I have to see Putin tomorrow.’”She wrote: “He started laughing. ‘No one sees Putin’. I was scrambling now, pulling up photos from the morning’s visit to the Kremlin that had made newspaper headlines.“His laughter died and I could see the cogs whirring as he tried to process what I was showing him. ‘If I don’t see Putin tomorrow, he will find you.
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