On Monday, Vinicius Jr. confirmed his separation from Virginia Fonseca with a message thanking “her for the time they shared”. On Tuesday, she was already at a private zoo in a luxury resort in the United Arab Emirates, kissing a baby monkey on the mouth. 🐒
The video went viral within hours, and the accusations were quick to follow: users on social media pointed to the gesture as racially insensitive toward Vinicius, who has been one of the most active voices against racism in Spanish football. The timing said it all — or at least that’s what many people believed. 🔥
Virginia had to issue a public statement: “I would never in my life have done it with the intention of offending anyone”. This is not the first crisis between them: last October they had already broken up, and Vinicius admitted to having been “careless” with another woman before apologizing publicly. The story between these two never seems to end completely cleanly. Innocent gesture or badly miscalculated? 🤔