Roger Clemens And Mindy McCready Had 10-Year Affair, Says Report

NEW YORK — 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.

"I cannot refute anything in the story," McCready told the newspaper in a story posted on its Web site Monday night.

"I have known Roger Clemens for a long time," she said, without detailing the nature of their relationship.

Clemens' lawyer, Rusty Hardin, confirmed the pitcher and singer had known each other for a long time but told the newspaper there was no sex.

"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 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.

"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."

Comments

[Puller58]

Clemens is just a dumb jock who became a legend in his own mind. Now he's following in the path of such repubs as David Vitter, and dems like Mel Reynolds. Since he has a personal services contract with the Houston Astros, maybe someone should find out what those services are....

[provgrays]

If this is proven, it's called pedophilia.

[cuzkate]

Provgrays, you are 100% correct. Is there a statue of limitations?
What is most troubling is that fellow teammates were there and knew
she was a child (also her 2 deliverance type brothers) and did
NOTHING. Does he know that Miley Cyrus is available?? It just
goes on and on and nobody has the b----- to go after a high
profile diddler.

[deedrdo]

i know a bunch of priests who wish there was a statute of limitations.

[cpscscs]

When are the authorities going to begin an investigation of Clemens for child sexual abuse? This is exactly what supposedly went on in the Texas FLDS compound. What kind of excuse are the Repugs on Waxman's committee going to make for Clemens this time?

[TXfemmom]

What do you mean that Roger is like a Republican, HE IS A REPUBLICAN, and the Republicans in TX and elsewhere in Congress are supporting him and sayng that he is telling the truth.

[leftcoastsportsbabe]

Okay, this may be a silly distraction, but how much more so than the stuff Hillary Clinton is throwing out in a desperate attempt to save her candidacy?

[cfreedom]

You couldn't be more pathetic, you know that i'm sure, reaching into the crappy places in your head to pull out a connection to Ms. Clinton. I know, i know - "crappy places in your head is some kind of redundancy­." So sue me. Better yet, blame Ms. Clinton.

[DaveWBR]

You know, she kinda looks like Meryl Streep in that picture.

And why do people constantly say "I can't BELIEVE the Huffington Post has stooped so low with at story like this. I'm a dignified person with a dignified computer typing words of indignation on an internet blog!"

Listen, every day they post a story or TWO like this. So what does that mean? It is not out of the ordinary. It is part of the format. At some point you have to stop being surprised. Are you still putting your hand in fire and equally surprised it's still hot?

[Mike169]

Ball players are like Republicans. They want to put themselves on platforms of righteousness higher than what others can achieve. It only makes their fall from grace much further. The only sports figure who ever got it right was Lawrence Taylor who advised kids against making him their hero.

[susane07]

I am so sick of these hypocritical people, spouting religion from every orifice, and then cheating at their game while also cheating on their wife and kids. Give me a break!

[chronic]

Who gives a freak???

[scorpioleidy]

So what!

[CGrace]

No wonder she's so screwed up if it started when she was only 15 years old. That's pretty sick for a 28 year old married man, father of 2 to be going after a 15 year old girl. Good grief.

[generaldelivery]

It's sad that HuffPo has stooped to tabloid innuendo to sell face-time.
New Rule: Never have a headline that ends in a question mark.

[LoRiseAntlers]

Here we go with the usual HuffPo BS distraction.

[KOisGod]

Distraction from REAL LIFE ISSUES affecting American's -

Take 17

[LeftCoastLefthandedLefty]

McCready is only 32?!?!? She looks like she has a lot more miles on the odometer. Maybe that will be the Rocket''s excuse.

[charlietuna11]

its quite evident to me that the person making these charges has completely misremembe­red..they don't call clemens mr. potato head for nothing..t­he fact hes a friend of the bushes tells me hes a man incapable of lying.. and by the way, my name is snow white.