Wednesday, November 19, 2025 - Former Bayern Munich and Manchester City player Jerome Boateng has finally addressed his ex-girlfriend's suicide for the first time, saying he has been 'denied the right to grieve'.
The defender's former partner, Kasia Lenhardt, killed
herself in February 2021, just six days after Boateng made accusations
against her in an interview with German outlet BILD.
He said Lenhardt, who rose to fame on TV show Germany's Next
Top Model, would often 'threaten to destroy' his career and blackmail him with
fake accusations of domestic abuse.
Lendhart was tragically found de@d in her Berlin home on the
day of her son's sixth birthday, less than a week after Boateng's interview.
Ahead of the broadcast of a three-part documentary about
himself seen by BILD, Boateng has now addressed his ex-girlfriend's death
by saying: 'I have lost a person whom I loved very much.'
He added: 'I've noticed publicly that I'm being denied the
right to grieve. Only I can answer what's going on inside a person. I'm still
processing her death.'
Discussing the interview, he gave to BILD about Lenhardt
before she died, Boateng also admitted that he 'misjudged the situation in
retrospect' and 'should have handled it better'.
The publication's former editor-in-chief, Johannes Boie, has
also admitted: 'We would not publish this interview today.'
In the 2021 interview with BILD, Boateng said: 'Kasia became
my girlfriend by breaking the relationship with my ex-girlfriend Rebecca and my
family and blackmailing me.
'So I decided to stick with Kasia and try to make it work.
Even making the relationship with her public was due to pressure from Kasia to
do so. It wasn't mine.
'During our relationship, Kasia often threatened to destroy
me. She threatened to ruin my career and even try to make me lose my children.
'Kasia said she would do so by accusing me of beating her.
She knew that my children's mother accused me of the same thing and that we
have a lawsuit over it.
Ahead of the broadcast of a three-part documentary about
himself seen by BILD, Boateng has now addressed his ex-girlfriend's death
by saying: 'I have lost a person whom I loved very much.'
He added: 'I've noticed publicly that I'm being denied the
right to grieve. Only I can answer what's going on inside a person. I'm still
processing her death.'
Discussing the interview he gave to BILD about Lenhardt
before she died, Boateng also admitted that he 'misjudged the situation in
retrospect' and 'should have handled it better'.
The publication's former editor-in-chief Johannes Boie
has also admitted: 'We would not publish this interview today.'
In the 2021 interview with BILD, Boateng said: 'Kasia became
my girlfriend by breaking the relationship with my ex-girlfriend Rebecca and my
family and blackmailing me.
So I decided to stick with Kasia and try to make it work.
Even making the relationship with her public was due to pressure from Kasia to
do so. It wasn't mine.
'During our relationship, Kasia often threatened to destroy
me. She threatened to ruin my career and even try to make me lose my children.
'Kasia said she would do so by accusing me of beating her.
She knew that my children's mother accused me of the same thing and that we
have a lawsuit over it.
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