*The woman appearing to cut cocaine next to Odell Beckham Jr. in a leaked video has been identified as French model Laura Cuenca, and she claims that the object in Beckham’s hand was a piece of pizza…not a blunt, as the Internet had decided.
As previously reported, a video leaked Friday appearing to show the New York Giants receiver holding a blunt while reclined on a bed next to a box of pepperoni pizza and a woman cutting lines of a white powdery substance with a credit card.
In the brief clip, Beckham, 25, is heard talking to Cuenca about “trying to get you to sleep with…” before the video cuts out. Watch below:
This the video with audio of Odell Beckham with blunt in hand and pushing some chick to have sex with someone else??????? pic.twitter.com/Jh1hLPKVSj
— FAMEOLOUS (@fameolousent) March 9, 2018
Cuenca told the New York Daily News that the athlete was not holding a blunt.
“No. He did not take any drugs!” Cuenca wrote in her native French during a private exchange with the Daily News on Instagram.
When asked if there were any drugs in the room, however, Cuenca chose not to respond. She also didn’t answer when asked directly if the white substance was cocaine. But asked to clarify what Beckham was holding, Cuenca said it was “a piece of pizza.”
Asked about how the two ended up in the hotel room together, she told Page Six: “I do not remember all of the evening, only that we met in a bar and then found ourselves at a hotel and we had passed the night together.”
Cuenca said she was contacted by the Giants organization since the video was published but didn’t offer any details about what was discussed. As previously reported, the Giants and the NFL have acknowledged that they are aware of the video.
Cuenca was first identified by her Instagram handle @ellcnc by Black Sports Online. She said she met Beckham at Le Queen nightclub in Paris, France and recorded the video via Snapchat on Thursday at 6 a.m. local time. Cuenca sent the Daily News a screenshot of the video’s timestamp.
Cuenca said she had no idea who Beckham was until after she had already uploaded the video. She said Beckham then told her who he was and asked her to take it down.
While the short clip didn’t begin to circulate and go viral until Friday evening, Beckham may have been alluding to its validity when he posted to Twitter Friday morning, “Old news still makes a good story….I guess. #CatchUpWereIn18”
Later that evening, a Twitter user responded to Beckham’s tweet suggesting the video is old because it vaguely appears he doesn’t have his wrist tattoos in the clip. When she was forwarded this tweet, Cuenca was adamant that is not the case and the video is indeed recent.
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