Roger Clemens had affair with singer Mindy McCready
Darlene Kinley
Report: Clemens had relationship with country star
Associated Press
Updated: April 28, 2008, 5:33 PM EST YORK (AP) - Roger Clemens had a
decade-long relationship with country star Mindy McCready that began
when she was a 15-year-old aspiring singer and the pitcher was a
Boston Red Sox ace, the Daily News reported.
Clemens' lawyer, Rusty Hardin, confirmed a long-term relationship but
told the newspaper it was not sexual.
"Mindy McCready is a longtime family friend of Roger Clemens and the
Clemens family," Hardin said in a statement Monday. "At no time did
Roger engage in any kind of inappropriate or improper relationship
with her. It is unfortunate that the Daily News has chosen to report
anonymous allegations that are completely unfounded, have no basis in
fact, and have nothing to do with Roger's baseball career or the issue
of steroid use in baseball."
The story, which appeared on the newspaper's Web site Sunday night and
in editions Monday, quoted several people who asked not to be
identified because of the sensitivity of the situation.
McCready's lawyer, Lee Ofman, said he did not have any comment on the
Daily News story.
Clemens was 28 and a married father of two when he first met McCready,
the newspaper reported.
Roger Clemens allegedly met Mindy McCready when she was 15 years old.
(John Russell / Associated Press)
The story could undermine Clemens' reputation, which is central to the
defamation suit the former pitcher has filed against former personal
trainer Brian McNamee. McNamee contends Clemens used
performance-enhancing substances during his major league career.
"If true, it's just another example of Roger's pervasive
prevarications which will be at the core of any defamation case," said
McNamee's attorney, Richard Emery, in an e-mail to The Associated
Press.
The newspaper said Clemens sent cash to McCready to help her with
legal issues and reached out to her when she was in jail last year in
Tennessee.
The 32-year-old McCready was sentenced last September for violating
probation from a 2004 drug arrest and was released from jail last Dec.
30. The violation occurred in July when McCready was accused of
scuffling with her mother and resisting arrest at her mother's home in
Fort Myers, Fla. She still must serve two years' probation.
McCready had a No. 1 single in 1996 with "Guys Do It All the Time."
Bat Boy2
Henry Hillen
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>> I wonder if he "mis-remembers" her?
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>Don't you think he'd "Miss" Remember her? ;)
Guys Do It All The Time!
Peter G.
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>> I wonder if he "mis-remembers" her?
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>Don't you think he'd "Miss" Remember her? ;)
Just another sign that Roger Clemens is the ANTI-CHRIST!!!!
Steve Smith
Originally published on April 28th at 12:01 a.m.
(Page 2 of 3)
The sources asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of
the situation. Hardin said Sunday he had no knowledge of an affair.
McNamee, who worked with and traveled with Clemens extensively over
the last decade, has confirmed that he saw Clemens and McCready
together on many occasions, including in Clemens' room at his
apartment in the former SkyDome, now Rogers Centre, in Toronto, and
that Clemens talked of McCready often. Should McNamee decide to
countersue for defamation, McCready could surface as a witness for
that case as well.
According to sources, Clemens was with his Red Sox teammates in a Fort
Myers, Fla., bar when then-teenager McCready caught his eye. After
Clemens threw a shirt with his and several teammates' signatures
onstage, an introduction was made.
"It was love at first sight, no doubt about it," said a source with
intimate knowledge of the relationship.
According to the source, McCready did not learn that Clemens was
married to Debbie Clemens until McCready attended a baseball game with
her two younger brothers and read Clemens' bio in the program. The
source says that McCready was too young to be angered by the news that
Clemens was taken.
'She's lived life out loud'
After hitting stardom in the mid-1990s - her debut album "Ten Thousand
Angels" went platinum - McCready continued to see Clemens, according
to the sources, although there were several breaks along the way when
McCready was involved with other men. She was briefly engaged to actor
Dean Cain and later was in an abusive relationship with Billy McKnight
- the father of her only child, Zander.
Her personal life, however, soon played out like a bad country song.
There was a 2004 arrest for prescription fraud. A near-overdose while
pregnant. A guilty plea by McKnight for assaulting McCready. And her
stint in a Tennessee jail last year after violating probation, for
allegedly hitting her mother in Florida.
"She's lived a life out loud," says one of her record managers, John
Dotson. Dotson and Iconic Records President Michael Fancher are
pooling their talents with Los Angeles producer Blake Freeman to
resurrect McCready's career.
"She's trying to get back to where she was early in her career," says
Freeman, who is the executive producer on McCready's "Fallen Angel"
documentary and her "Mending Mindy" reality series. "She's a great
person, and this will help her get back in the good graces with the
industry."
Partied with Michael Jordan
Even during her troubles, the sources say Clemens was never far from
McCready. Clemens would frequently send bundles of cash in FedEx
packages, they say, as she dealt with her legal issues. According to
one of the sources, Clemens even reached out to McCready through an
intermediary while she was in jail last year, although McCready had
cut ties with the Rocket as far back as 2006.
Sources say that when McCready, now 32, and Clemens were together,
there was barely any friction between them. The two were known to take
lavish trips to Las Vegas and New York. One time, McCready attended a
Yankees game at the Stadium and jokingly donned a catcher's mask near
the home dugout. During another Big Apple excursion, the two holed up
in the trendy SoHo Grand and later partied with Monica Lewinsky and
Michael Jordan. McCready, according to a source, even bummed a cigar
off His Airness to give to Clemens. There were personal love missives
to Clemens hidden in McCready's album liner notes.
And it wasn't just McCready benefitting from Clemens' generosity.
McCready and her brothers used the Rocket's plane for quick hops to to
the Florida Keys. Clemens also bought golf clubs for McCready's
father, Tim, according to the source with knowledge of the affair.
The seven-time Cy Young Award winner's orchestrated public relations
blitz began shortly after the Dec. 13 release of the Mitchell Report
on drug use in baseball. It focused as much on Clemens' family-man
reputation as it did on McNamee's checkered past and apparent lies
about his involvement in an incident in Florida in 2001 for which he
was investigated for sexual assault. No charges were ever filed in
that case, but Clemens' lawyer Hardin papered the media with accounts
of the incident.
The relationship with McCready paints a very different picture of
Clemens than the one drawn by Jose Canseco in his book "Juiced," where
he went out of his way to say that Clemens was one of very few
professional ballplayers who was faithful to his wife.
And it smacks of a different Clemens than the one who spoke
passionately of his family in his opening remarks to Congress Feb. 13.
Debbie Clemens was seated behind her husband at the hearing.
"Anyone who has spent time around me knows that my family is and has
always been my top priority," a portion of the statement read. "My
wife, Debbie, and my sons - Koby, Kory, Kacy and Kody - mean more to
me than anything in the world. Having said that, baseball has
definitely provided me with significant opportunities off the field."
Erin Sue Lowell
Geesh!
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> McCready had a No. 1 single in 1996 with "Guys Do It All the Time."
I so wish everyone, ANYONE, would quit calling Mindy McCready a
"country star, singer, entertainer, etc". She had one hit only, 12-
ish years ago, and it sucked as it was. My local Waffle House
waitress in Nashville has had more hits than McCready.
Mary1973
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I never heard of her until this matter came up. I don't call her a star.
Waiting for the photos to come out.
Jeffy3
> I so wish everyone, ANYONE, would quit calling Mindy McCready a
> "country star, singer, entertainer, etc". She had one hit only, 12-
> ish years ago, and it sucked as it was. My local Waffle House
> waitress in Nashville has had more hits than McCready.
Come on, be fair! She had TWO hits. "Guys Do It" and "Ten Thousand
Angels".
Coop
Looks like Stella was right.
Coop
CliffB
> I wonder if he "mis-remembers" her?
yes. He definitely mis-remembers that she was at least 16 years one
day old when he started banging her.
牛魔王
> McCready's lawyer, Lee Ofman, said he did not have any comment on the
> Daily News story.
Confirmed:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,353056,00.html
Throws Like Mary
> "Mindy McCready is a longtime family friend of Roger Clemens and the
> Clemens family," Hardin said in a statement Monday. "At no time did
> Roger engage in any kind of inappropriate or improper relationship
> with her."
Yeah, Roger just liked hanging out with 15-year-olds. Talking about,
like, you know, band class, and boys. It's like, they had a lot in
common.
2nz
Don't forget the unicorns.
LJ
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Refresh my memory on what Stella said.....that was when this group was
booming & STella had his rants. What happened to him??