Portuguese senior national team captain and Manchester United forward, Cristiano Ronaldo, has opened up about being too famous and the aftermath of fame.
There’s no doubt that Ronaldo is one of the world’s most popular athletes, with a mouth-watering social media following of close 600 million followers on Facebook and Instagram alone.
Though so many people fancy the 38-year old’s popularity and would want to be in his shoes, he is rather wishing he could just use all he has garnered over these years in his stupendous career, to buy back his freedom and privacy, which is obvious, he barely has.
“Being myself is boring. When it starts, it’s cool. You’re famous, you’re a fantastic player, you win trophies, you score goals, you’re on the front page of the newspaper, on television. But after so many years, you look at life differently. You have a girlfriend, you have kids, you want some privacy and there is no privacy anymore. My privacy is gone. If I had the chance now, I would pay to get my privacy back. People be like ‘Ah yeah but you rich. You have money, you have cars, you have houses’, but this isn’t all. Believe me, being too famous is not good.” Ronaldo said.
“Do you know how many times I’ve gone to the park with my kids over the past two years?” Zero. If I go, a lot of people will come suddenly. The kids will be nervous, I’ll be nervous, my girlfriend will be nervous. I can’t go to a bar with friends because I know they won’t be comfortable with me there. I avoid doing those kinds of things, because the people around me will be more nervous than I am.” the former Madrid star reiterated.
