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The influencer and model Morgan Riddle, the partner of the American tennis player Taylor Fritz, said that she had a difficult experience at the Super Bowl in Las Vegas at the weekend, and how she was sexually harassed "over and over again" by men.
Riddle, who has more than 600,000 followers on Instagram and TikTok, opened up about what she went through at Allegiant Stadium in the game, and generally argued that this kind of thing can't happen in tennis, criticizing football fans.
"The most famous woman in men's tennis".
Riddle/GettyImages, Julian Finney
"Drunken and rude fans. It was very stressful and scary."
Riddle/GettyImages, Cameron Spencer
The 26-year-old said she spent the third quarter of the match in the stadium toilet, having suffered an anxiety attack after several unpleasant encounters with men.
"I can't believe the level and amount of harassment we faced over the weekend by men," she wrote about her experience and that of other friends.
"For the last three days I've been grabbed, groped, harassed, yelled at constantly - actually every few minutes when we were out in public. And in the game itself it was really bad. We couldn't even enjoy the game without being harassed by drunk and rude fans. It was Very stressful and scary."
One man, Riddle said, "used his child to try to bump into us and touch us... His son, a 10-year-old boy, turned to him and said, 'Dad, what are you doing? ... How do you think little boys become nasty men?'" she said. she said in her video, trying to control her breathing in a bathroom stall.
Riddle, partner of the world No. 9, was previously named "the most famous woman in men's tennis" by The New York Times, and became a crowd favorite at this year's Australian Open when she pledged to eat the local delicacy Vegemite if Fritz reached the quarterfinals .
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Even before the Super Bowl started, many in the US were concerned about the combination of the popular game with Las Vegas, the city of sin. According to Riddle, she "never experienced anything like this in tennis ... I just hope that every man reading this understands the severity of the words and actions these.
We all come to try and watch a football game.
Being caught by grown men is scary."
Riddle shared one comment that blamed her, and wrote, "Maybe it's because of the way you dress?", but most of the commenters thanked her and showed solidarity with her situation. One of them said that she works in public relations in sports, and according to her she is not returned to an NFL game after being attacked in the players' tunnel six years ago. Elsewhere Cypera said she once worked for an NFL team and "dealt with this behavior every game ... I only did one season and vowed never to work in this league," she wrote.
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