Former Bayern Munich and Manchester City player Jerome Boateng has finally addressed his ex-girlfriend's suicide for the first time, saying he has been 'denied the right to grieve'. The defender's former partner, Kasia Lenhardt, killed herself in February 2021, just six days after Boateng made accusations against her in an interview with German outlet BILD. He said Lenhardt, who rose to fame on TV show Germany's Next Top Model, would often 'threaten to destroy' his career and blackmail him with fake accusations of domestic abuse. Lendhart was tragically found de@d in her Berlin home on the day of her son's sixth birthday, less than a week after Boateng's interview. Ahead of the broadcast of a three-part documentary about himself seen by BILD, Boateng has now addressed his ex-girlfriend's death by saying: 'I have lost a person whom I loved very much.' He added: 'I've noticed publicly that I'm being denied the right to grieve. Only I can answer what's going on inside a person. I'm still processing her death.' Discussing the interview he gave to BILD about Lenhardt before she died, Boateng also admitted that he 'misjudged the situation in retrospect' and 'should have handled it better'. The publication's former editor-in-chief , Johannes Boie, has also admitted: 'We would not publish this interview today.' In the 2021 interview with BILD, Boateng said: 'Kasia became my girlfriend by breaking the relationship with my ex-girlfriend Rebecca and my family and blackmailing me. 'So I decided to stick with Kasia and try to make it work. Even making the relationship with her public was due to pressure from Kasia to do so. It wasn't mine. 'During our relationship, Kasia often threatened to destroy me. She threatened to ruin my career and even try to make me lose my children. 'Kasia said she would do so by accusing me of beating her. She knew that my children's mother accused me of the same thing and that we have a lawsuit over it. Ahead of the broadcast of a three-part documentary about himself seen by BILD, Boateng has now addressed his ex-girlfriend's death by saying: 'I have lost a person whom I loved very much.' He added: 'I've noticed publicly that I'm being denied the right to grieve. Only I can answer what's going on inside a person. I'm still processing her death.' Discussing the interview he gave to BILD about Lenhardt before she died, Boateng also admitted that he 'misjudged the situation in retrospect' and 'should have handled it better'.
The publication's former editor-in-chief Johannes Boie has also admitted: 'We would not publish this interview today.' In the 2021 interview with BILD, Boateng said: 'Kasia became my girlfriend by breaking the relationship with my ex-girlfriend Rebecca and my family and blackmailing me.'So I decided to stick with Kasia and try to make it work. Even making the relationship with her public was due to pressure from Kasia to do so. It wasn't mine. 'During our relationship, Kasia often threatened to destroy me. She threatened to ruin my career and even try to make me lose my children. 'Kasia said she would do so by accusing me of beating her. She knew that my children's mother accused me of the same thing and that we have a lawsuit over it.
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