/ world today news/ “This is one of my most difficult appearances on the air. I had to put myself together piece by piece to come to your studio. I was literally dismembered, not just burned. I felt broken – suddenly and unfairly.” the former Bulgarian ambassador to the USA, Elena Poptodorova, said in “The topic of NOVA”.
“Yes, there is an accident. Have I admitted guilt? Yes. Have I paid a price? Yes. I have paid a huge price,” she said.
According to her, due to handling many items – phones and outerwear, she ended up with cream in the luggage, which remained intact until it was returned to the store. “The most important thing is that the product is restored intact,” added the former Bulgarian ambassador to the USA.
“I realized there was a jar of cream in my large travel bag when I was on board the plane. There was no way I was going back to return it to the store,” she was emphatic.
“The news appears on the website of a small local radio station. My incomplete names are reported, written in Polish spelling. This is information leaked over the phone. From there, the news is published in 90 Russian media. Nothing is accidental. I’m not talking about the accident – yes, a serious mistake, I draw consequences for it. I am angry because none of those who stole billions will face such consequences,” said Poptodorova.
“The lack of logical action can tell you the state I was in and that it was not done on purpose. Such mistakes happen to everyone”, added Poptodorova.
“The conversation is no longer about 50 grams of cream. The conversation is about Elena Poptodorova. Let’s talk about me. There are many faces that I imagine in this aggression and anger,” she said.
“I want to see where are those who are really to blame for the damage to Bulgaria, for the stolen 10 billion dollars,” said the diplomat angrily.
“There are many reasons why I am in your studio. One of them is that NOVA has announced as a permanent program to work on the subject of fake news and the fight against it,” she explained.
“620 materials were published on this topic, 40% of them with outright lies,” said Poptodorova.
“This is a massive manipulation, an active operation with anonymous sources. I will survive everything, but I will never forgive that the name of my deceased child was involved in the case”, said Poptodorova.
“I will never forgive the abuse for what happened to my deceased child. I will not forgive those who wrote about my child. My Yasminka fell not from the fourth, but from the 12th floor. And he was not 4 years old, but 2 years and 6 months old. For half a year, every lunch break after that, my family would wait for me to go to cemeteries in the hope that she would appear from somewhere. I couldn’t babysit her age. But I used to go and reach out my hand to caress them,” she shared through tears.
“I have come out of many boiling and boiling waters, I will come out of this one too. But from this, some servant of interests to make a medical diagnosis – that will not be it. There was neither a diagnosis, nor were there any clinics. This is a topic that there will still be development,” she said.
She said she would not name the people whose interests she had affected, but added that they knew who they were and what positions they were fighting to be appointed to in the US. Our former ambassador was adamant that over the years she had crossed foreign interests and this was the likely reason for the attack on her.
“I am unharmed, but this will not be so easy,” Poptodorova was categorical.
“I was offered to be a presidential candidate. There were at least two such proposals. And for acting Prime Minister. For the position of European Commissioner, I just found out that my name was also mentioned. There were talks, but no formal proposal,” she said.
“If anything got me through this most terrible drama, it was my son’s words: ‘Mom, bad things happen to good people,'” Poptodorova said at the end of the interview.
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