ALEX Scott has revealed the moment an Uber driver tried to kidnap her and said: “Girls like you, I kill.”
The football star, 38, says her “body went numb” when the driver told her he was not dropping her home – but instead taking her elsewhere.
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She recalled fearing she would never see her mum again, and texting her agent to “send a search party” if she wasn’t back soon.
The horror unfolded while Alex was working for the BBC at the World Cup in Moscow in 2018.
She says the only way she managed to flee was by convincing the “sicko” she was a friend of Russian president Vladimir Putin – who she had only met that morning.
The 38-year-old recalled the horror in her memoir, titled How (Not) To Be Strong.
In her book, Alex told how the BBC usually insisted staff use official, pre-booked cars while on work trips.
But, having gone for a drink with a friend, she decided to get an Uber for the 15-minute journey back to the hotel she was staying.
Alex recalled that just minutes into the trip the driver, who was “a stacked bald man, stocky, and wearing a grin on his face”, turned to her.
The Mirror reported Alex wrote in her book: “He looked at me and said – in English – ‘Tell them they will never see you again.’
“‘I don’t understand,’ I stammered.”
The former Lioness said the driver then picked up his phone and spoke to it in Russian.
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She said he was waiting for her to see the words as they appeared on Google Translate.
She recalled her “body went numb” as she saw the words: “‘Tonight I am not taking you home,’ [it] read. ‘You come with me.’”
Alex described how, through the driver’s phone translation and his broken English, he began telling her “horrible, terrible things: how he takes girls like me, how they never make it home”.
She said she frantically messaged her agent from within the locked car and “told him if I wasn’t back in 15 minutes to send a search party”.
But the driver’s next haunting message delivered via his phone was: “Girls like you, I kill.”
Alex recalls: “‘Oh my God,’ was my first thought… ‘I’m never going to see Mum again.’”
Then, she had a brainwave – that she had been with Putin that morning.
Alex wrote in her book: “‘You can’t kill me,’ I said. ‘I have to see Putin tomorrow.’
“He started laughing. ‘No one sees Putin’. I was scrambling now, pulling up photos from the morning’s visit to the Kremlin that had made newspaper headlines.
“His laughter died and I could see the cogs whirring as he tried to process what I was showing him. ‘If I don’t see Putin tomorrow, he will find you.’”
She said almost instantly the Uber was heading back towards her hotel.
As they pulled up, the driver tried to touch her legs and kiss her before she clambered out.
Alex added: “I knew then what a near-miss I’d had but, rather than confront it, I just… brushed aside the incident like it had never happened.
“I didn’t want people to worry about me or think I couldn’t handle myself – just like when I was young.”
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