A British model allegedly kidnapped in Italy has revealed her hurt after her account of the ordeal was questioned.

A tearful Chloe Ayling told ITV’s This Morning about her capture, which she said left her crying almost every day, too paranoid to leave her room and experiencing nightmares.

In her first TV interview, the 20-year-old said: “It is really hurtful to see people doubt my story.

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“But the headlines have been so crazy, they’ve taken details and completely twisted them … I’m not surprised that people have questions.

“Like when I went shoe shopping apparently, which was to the camping shop to get shoes for the consulate, people were saying why didn’t I run? But then it’s easy for them to say that but when you’re actually in my situation it’s not that easy.

“I was with an assassin that’s always armed, I’d been shown knives, so I couldn’t just try and put my life in the hands of a random Italian woman. If I couldn’t communicate with her, or she didn’t care, then I’d risk my life.”

'I'm still scared, even when I'm home. I'm not going to be the same person again. I won't be the same as I was before' @chloeayling — This Morning (@thismorning) August 14, 2017

Italian police said Ms Ayling was snatched by a group calling itself Black Death in Milan last month.

It is believed she was drugged and transported in a bag to an isolated village near Turin, where she was held for six days as her captors tried to auction her online.

She said she was injected with ketamine after being lured to a fake modelling shoot before being bundled into the boot of a car and told she was going to be sold as a sex slave.

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Ms Ayling’s former agent Phil Green told ITV’s Good Morning Britain he was standing by the model, who was “humiliated” by her capture.

Phil Green, of Supermodel Agency, said she had received £200,000 worth of offers of work since returning to the UK but he believed she did not make up the story for publicity.

He said the model, from Coulsdon, south London, only began telling her story after the Italian police “gave out every detail”, he said.

He told GMB: “Trust me, I wouldn’t be sat here today, nor would Chloe be giving an interview, had it not been for the Italian police giving a press release.

“She was humiliated by the fact that she’d been kidnapped. She’d been through an ordeal, she wanted to forget it and come back home and start her normal modelling life.”

He warned other models to be careful over their social media use when posting details of jobs.

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