14 DAY TRIAL // Ever since Cristiano Ronaldo, a man known both for her performance on the field and his prowess as a ladies’ man, announced that he’d just become a father, speculation about who the mother might be has not for a second ceased to make the rounds. At first, it was believed he’d used a surrogate mother to fulfill his dream of becoming a dad but, according to the Daily Mirror, the mother is actually a waitress with whom Ronaldo had a one-night stand and who later got paid big bucks to give up custody of the child.
According to the British tabloid, citing well informed sources close to the football star, Ronaldo saw the waitress in a Los Angeles restaurant, as he was about to sit down and order something to eat. He instantly knew that he wanted her and, as per the tab, he wasted no words to let her know, even pretending that his English was so bad that he actually had to draw a picture of what he wanted on a steamed up window. Months later, he learned the woman was pregnant and, after the baby’s birth, he undertook a paternity test and offered her $15 million to give him up.
“The mother of Cristiano Ronaldo’s baby is a penniless American waitress who the football star seduced with the line: ‘Me, you, [double expletive].’ But his chat-up line was so blunt, she didn’t understand it. So Ronaldo resorted to drawing a love heart on a misted-up window and said: ‘Me, you, kiss!’ Then he whisked her back to his hotel for a one-night stand which left the girl pregnant – and Ronaldo with a £10 million paternity bill. […] The £200,000-a-week striker used his best friend to help broker an exclusive paternity deal in New York, supervised by his fearsome mother Dolores Aveiro, to bring the baby back to Portugal. Ronaldo has told friends he won’t tell the boy the identity of his mother until his 18th birthday,” the Daily Mirror writes.
Months later, he found out that the woman was pregnant and, advised by his mother, he suggested he be the one that raised the baby boy. “Ronni is a multi-millionaire playboy, but when it comes to family, he’s very much his mother’s son. They are a close-knit, traditional Roman Catholic family and the minute paternity was established there was absolutely no doubt that Ronni would be doing the right thing. There was simply no question of him walking away. […] Ronni has not decided whether to involve the mother in his son’s life. He thinks he might tell him who she is. Dolores’s view is that if the child eventually decides to make contact with the mother, it is important she is living an affluent lifestyle. It would offend Dolores for the child to find his mother living in poverty. It’s a huge amount of money, but Ronni insists it’s not a big deal because he’s worth £100 million and he’s got the best part of his career ahead of him still,” a well-knowing and, as usual, unnamed source dishes for the tab.
The same insider also claims that, though he wasn’t planning on becoming a father just now, Ronaldo was incredibly pleased with the news. Still, he’s only revealed the identity of the mother to a handful of close friends, as he’s still thinking about what to do with her and how involved he wants her to be in his son’s life. At the same time, the tipster adds, he continues to be the same womanizer as ever – simply because he doesn’t consider becoming a father synonymous with settling down.
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