I had to make my kidnapper fall in love with me, says abducted UK model Chloe Ayling

Chloe Ayling, a 20-year-old-model from London has been in the news ever since she got kidnapped last year by a photographer who lured her into a modelling job in Milan. After being held captive in Italy for six days, the said photographer named Lukasz Herba dropped her at the British consulate in Milan. While this is a story that most of us who have been following her news are aware of, what was left out was her ordeal post-release from captivity.

As Chloe returned to the UK, some people were sceptical about the story as she seemed too happy with the captor, Lukasz. Many doubted her story as upon her release she didn't look disturbed or sad for that matter.

Speaking of what happened while she was held in Italy, Chloe revealed that after being chained for two days, she agreed to share a bed with her captor. She said, "The more we started talking, the more the bond was kind of forming and once I realised he was starting to like me, I knew I had to use that to my advantage.”

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During the time she was held captive, Chloe was injected with the drug ketamine, stripped, handcuffed, stuffed in a holdall bag, driven 120 miles (193km) in the boot of a car to a remote farmhouse. The captor told her that either she should pay 300,000 euros (£265,000) or he would sell her as a sex slave. He also asked her if he could kiss her and if they can have a relationship which made Chloe think of a way out and she said, "I thought this is my chance to get out.”

"Once I saw his reaction to what I was saying that things could happen in the future - he was acting excited and really looking forward to it and always talking about it - it was that response that made me realise I needed to keep doing that."

Speaking on how the scandal ended up hurting her name, she said, "People expect me to be crying all the time and shutting myself off from the world, not facing any cameras. I could have chosen to do that but I thought how is that going to help me recover. By talking about it, by being around people was my way of getting over it and moving on."

She added, "It's an indescribable feeling of not knowing if you're going to get your freedom back and I don't like to think about that. So I tend to stick to the facts so I don't have to think about how I felt at the time."

Lukasz was jailed in June for 16 years and nine months following a trial at a court in Milan. In his defence, he said that he had previously met the model and had fallen in love with her. He claimed he wanted to create a scandal to help her career by creating extra publicity.