The accuser, an American teacher Kathryn Mayorga accused him of raping her in a Las Vegas hotel room in 2009.
Speaking at a PR launch in Lisbon Dolores Aveiro said " I have confidence in my son when it come to what happened, when she went to the hotel, it wasn't to play card, it was to do something else, I know the son I have" The mother of four said.
CR7 has since denied the claims despite multiple reports that he pAid her £290,000 settlement for her silence after they met