Cristiano Ronaldo search for ‘Edna’ could be over as Piers Morgan hints McDonald’s worker, who gave superstar leftover hamburgers when he was a poor kid,has been found
PIERS MORGAN has hinted that the woman who came to Cristiano Ronaldo's rescue when he was a starving child may have been found.
In the Juventus star's interview with the ITV presenter, it was revealed he used to wait outside a McDonald's restaurant because he was too poor to buy burgers for himself while a kid in Sporting Lisbon's academy.
Coming to his aid were a group of women who handed out food to Ronaldo and his hungry friends, and he recalled the name 'Edna' for one of them.
The man himself has been unable to track her down but Morgan's interview may have set that it motion.
Following the chat, he tweeted: "UPDATE: We may have found Edna..."
Ronaldo, 34 - who is paid £147million to represent Nike on top of his £850,000-a-week Juve wages and other endorsements - hopes to invite her to his home and treat her as thanks for her generosity.
He told Morgan: “We were a little hungry. We have a McDonald's next to the stadium, we knocked on the door and asked if they had any burgers.
“There was always Edna and two other girls. I never found them again.
"I asked people in Portugal, they closed the McDonald's, but if this interview can help find them, I would be so happy.
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"I want to invite them to Turin or Lisbon to come have dinner with me because I want to give something back."
The football megastar revealed in the interview that the story of his late alcoholic father remains close to his heart, tearing up as he spoke of how former soldier Jose Dinis Aveiro never saw him reach his potential.
Ronaldo said: “I really don’t know my father 100 per cent. He was a drunk person. I never spoke with him, like a normal conversation. It was hard.”