An Italian model hit back at those who claimed she was to blame for her ex-partner's injury because of too much sex.
Melissa Satta, a model and television personality, dated tennis star Matteo Berrettini following her marriage with former Portsmouth and Tottenham midfielder Kevin-Prince Boateng.
During her relationship with Berrettini, he suffered an abdominal injury and Satta was blamed for the issue.
Trolls online accused her of having too much sex with the professional tennis player, which she completely denied.
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"Too bad it’s an injury in the same place as the one in 2021, when I didn’t know him," she said of Berrettini’s injury in 2023.
"But in any case: do I really have to answer to these people?"
Satta faced similar criticism when she was married to Boateng, who played for the likes of Eintracht Frankfurt and Barcelona during their marriage.
She said people blamed his injury on too much sex.
"Once, my ex-husband, who suffered from pubalgia (chronic groin lesion). There, too, they attacked me saying that we had too much sex and that was the cause of his physical problems," the 39-year-old explained.
"The proof that sexism has been and still is there: it’s always women who distract men, and if it’s a woman who loses, then it’s what she eats, not a man."
Satta, who has almost five million followers on Instagram, admitted that she 'held back' responding to backlash online until a newspaper headline caught her attention.
“It was something that had been going on for months, when our story became known in January: Berrettini doesn’t win because there’s Satta who distracts him, it’s too demanding," she added.
“But I was holding back. I’m not the one who denounces anything on social media. I have broad shoulders on judgments.
“The title of a newspaper: 'Melissa Satta brings bad luck', after the game at the Montecarlo tournament in which Matteo won, but after which he stopped for the injury.
“How can you write something like that? It’s not ethical. Legitimate my hatred."
Satta, who used to go out with former footballer Christian Vieri, split from Berrettini in 2024 and is currently single.
Nasir Jabbar