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McCready Confirms Affair with Clemens

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Posted: 2008-04-29 17:42:03

Filed Under: Star Scandals, Music News

NEW YORK (April 29) - 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. Now the singer confirms it.

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Roger Clemens denies having an "improper relationship" with country singer Mindy McCready when the two met when she was 15. Click through to revisit a difficult past year for Clemens.

"I cannot refute anything in the story," said McCready, which the Daily News reports was tearing when she read them a prepared statement. "Yes, I have known Roger Clemens for a long time. He's a kind and caring man. He's also a legendary athlete. The central topic in the debate, however, regards his professional life, not his personal life. There are legal matters working their way through the system that have nothing to do with me. From my point of view, that is where the focus should remain."

Clemens' lawyer, Rusty Hardin, confirmed a long-term relationship but told the newspaper it was not sexual.

"He flatly denies having had any kind of an inappropriate relationship with her," Hardin said. "He's considered her a close family friend. ... He has never had a sexual relationship with her."

Richard Emery, Brian McNamee's attorney, on Clemens' alleged affair with Mindy McCready. Watch Video

The News' original 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.

Clemens was 28 and a married father of two when he first met McCready, the newspaper reported.

In its story Monday night, sources told the News that McCready went with Clemens to his hotel room in Fort Myers, Fla., after their first meeting but that they did not have sex. The relationship turned intimate after she later moved to Nashville and became a country star, the paper said.

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.

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"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.

"If the case heads to trial and is not dismissed, as we feel it should be, we will be calling (McCready) as a witness," Emery told the News.

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. Clemens sometimes sent her amounts of $25,000, the paper said.

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."

2008-04-28 11:43:11

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ULTRACLEN2 09:43:00 AM May 08 2008

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how some deranged people can turn every media bull into a slap at pres. Bush is actually funny

lequesogrande 07:29:06 AM May 01 2008

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by the way, happy may day, a classic communist holiday.

lequesogrande 07:27:34 AM May 01 2008

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let this be a lesson to you kids out there: free speech is only free to those who own it. you are not getting the whole story from anyone, ever -- do not rely on the internet, tv, print, or radio as your sole source of information. corporations lie, governments lie, remember that a small percentage of the population controls a large portion of the world's wealth. wealth is power. always double check facts, get second and third opinions, ask questions, and best of all, find out for yourself. first they delete your words, then your sentences, finally your voice so you are silenced forever.

lequesogrande 07:13:42 AM May 01 2008

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you have to be kidding me, aol. no wonder time-warner rues the day they bought you.

lequesogrande 07:10:32 AM May 01 2008

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ay carumba. statutory *******. harvey levin has said worse.

lequesogrande 07:09:16 AM May 01 2008

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statutory *******. it's a legal term, aol, get over it and adjust your filters, you fascists.

lequesogrande 07:07:35 AM May 01 2008

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it's very simple: when the lawyer says rocket did not have sexual relations with the fifteen-year old, he means that roger committed statutory ****. kind of like when jose canseco says rog didn't partake in steroids or cheat on his wife, he means that clemens is guilty on all counts.

bcks7hm23 02:51:43 AM May 01 2008

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I AM NOT MUCH OF A BASEBALL FAN AND I DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT STEROIDS EITHER - SO KNOWING THIS, HOW MUCH OF A BIG DEAL IS THIS? DOES IT MAKE THAT MUCH DIFFERENCE KNOWING HE TOOK THIS DRUG? I SEE EVERYONE MAKING SUCH A BIG DEAL OUT OF THIS. HOW MUCH CAN STEROIDS REALLY CONTRIBUTE TO SOMEONE'S PERFORMANCE? AND IF SO, WHY SHOULDN'T IT BE LEGAL FOR EVERYONE TO USE THEM?