Jenni Hermoso: I've received threats and it's something you never get used to

The Spanish international opens up about everything she's had to go through since Luis Rubiales' non-consensual kiss

Jenni Hermoso, striker for Pachuca and the Spanish national soccer team, gave an interview to 'GQ' magazine after being named 'GQ Woman of the Year' in which she opened up about everything that has happened around the non-consensual kiss that Luis Rubiales, former president of the RFEF, gave her at the celebration of the achievement of the Women's World Cup.

The footballer regrets having had to suffer a lot since that act happened. «I have had to assume the consequences of an act that I did not provoke, that I had not chosen nor premeditated. I've even received threats, and that's something you never get used to,» Hermoso laments.

Hermoso does not hide when it comes to saying that professional help has been essential to not sink by what happened after winning the final of the World Cup: «Having to tell it again and again was doing me a lot of damage. But I know I had to let it out somehow. I'm still working on it with the help of my psychologist, with whom I've been working for many years.

»For me, mental health is as important as the daily training, as the hours I have to sleep to be able to go out on the field. Thanks to her I feel strong and I'm not falling apart or thinking about not wanting to play soccer anymore."

After Luis Rubiales' act in the collection of World Cup medals, the #SeAcabo [Me Too] movement emerged in networks that erected Jenni as a feminist reference. The striker believes that all this has served to make many people more aware of what feminism means.

«With everything that has happened, I think many of us have become more aware of what the word 'feminism' really means, including many