Vanessa Hessler
"It was a passionate story; we were together for four years," the 23-year-old model told the Italian magazine Diva e Donna, speaking of her relationship with Mutassim, who was killed on October 20.
"At the moment everything disgusts me apart from Libya. I don't like to think that it is true. It is all very sad."
She said the Qaddafi family were "normal people."
Foreign powers had interfered in the country, she said. "We - France and Great Britain - financed the rebels. The people don't know what they are doing," she said.
The Libyan people were not particularly poor nor fanatic, she said. "You must not believe everything you hear."
Alice owner, the Italian firm Telefonica, said it expected her to distance herself from the comments. Spokesman Albert Fetsch said they were private comments which in no way reflected the opinions of the company. "Everything is being considered," he said of her future as poster girl for the Alice firm.
And when you're a world leader, you don't get to be a "normal person."
I am amazed that in places like the US, Presidents actually try to seem "normal."
To, me it would not even be a complement. I think that our world leaders must be exceptional people. It is their "normalness" that tends to ruin them.
If Qaddafi had been more exceptional, he might have been able to save himself and his country. But that would be asking a lot from the ruler of a country that has had the attention of the power elites (like hovering hungry vultures) for years now.
I only hope that more people will work to expose the truth about Libya. It was obviously one of the most questionable "revolutions" to date.