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

[KatiePie]

Yes, yes, we all "know" that Roger is a liar. But we also know that bimbo drug addict z-list celebrities will say/do anything to try to get back up onto the c-list. I don't know if she can sing, but she knows how to get publicity when she needs it. If you want to weigh in on his guilt/innocence, vote in this Such a Cheater poll: http://www.suchacheater.com/roger-clemens-cheated-with-mindy-mccready/196/

[fortyfour]

wait a minute McCready was 15 when this affair started.

and America is upset with a fully covered Hanna Montana photo

i hope help is on the way

[bitabingbitabangbitaboom]

And Roger Throwing Low Heat Again..................Low and Inside......................and she takes a cut.............and makes contact......................and that ball is going foul.................no it`s staying fair ...........it`s out-of here.................how about that folks a minor leagers first at bat in the majors and shanks a 3 and 2 pitch over the wall off Roger Clemens.......................that`s going to put a dent in his ERA!

[djwfutbol]

Wow! Now that is some yellow journalism!

I guess we are all presumed guilty of whatever rumour someone has the nerve to start.

You better hope it is true or you can pretty well be sure of a lawsuit.

PS. True or not, how is it anyone's business but theirs?

[RanTheMan]

"...how is it anyone's business but theirs?"
_______________________________

IF true, she was 15 years old.

[andyboy]

djwfutbol,

They normally don't go to print with rumors. Sounds like a perfectly plausible story to me. After all Roger is a huge liar. Why would anyone beleive his bullshit denials? Because he's baseball star? Er.... or used to be a baseball star.

[djwfutbol]

The Daily News does not print rumours? You are obviously not a New Yorker. No offense, but they will print anything they think they can get away with.

With the NY tabloids, your best bet is to believe a third of what you read and nothing of what you hear. Unless you were in the bedroom with them, you can't know.

[noamjunior]

why are sticking up for a drug abusing child molester?-
you must be a goper

[BoomerSooner]

My late father was a major league baseball player, and my brother is a coach of a minor league type team. I've heard some real disturbing stories about Roger. The most damaging story I heard, which reflect very poorly on his character, was one about his being caught stealing in college from fellow teammates.

Roger Clemen's team, in college, was experiencing theft from a fellow teammate in college. Someone setup the thief by placing a wallet in plain sight in one of the open air lockers. In a baseball locker room, the lockers don't have doors because the idea is that no one would THINK of stealing.

Anyway, one of the players hid in the bathroom to see who was thieving/stealing. Guess who was doing it? Why it was ROGER CLEMENS.

This is second hand information, but I believe it because there was no motivation I could identify for people to keep repeating this story. If Roger Clemens was doing this in college, it points to a very damaged character.

[noamjunior]

Like most southern, white repukes, Clemons thinks the world owes him and he is drug abusing cheater, who it now turns out cheated on his wife and committed statutory rape
typical southern, white republican

[Mike169]

Well it looks as though Roger's whole life has just become a lie. This is sad he was a great pitcher and I enjoyed watching him.

[rh654]

No doubt if there is a press conference Roger's wife will be standing by her man.............

[ejay579]

What can you expect from a Repukican?

[shockjock]

NO,,,,,it didn't happen. Ms McCready just mis-remembers getting nailed (in the backdoor) by big Roge.

To quote the redneck Senator "This man is a Titan and a hero."

[RedWhiteandBlueState]

Roger Clemens and George Bush - Great American role models and leaders. No wonder the world looks on in envy. I say we let Mexico have Texas. Or just put it on Ebay for the highest bidder. Better yet, let's move Israel to Texas and Texas to Israel.

[RanTheMan]

Have you seen his wife???

Did you see her back then???

Is the man CRAZY???

[repugnicansfearme]

His wife was a trophy, and she was getting juice shots in the back bedroom from another man while this numb nuts was at home. What's that say about this guy? A little nuts??

[repugnicansfearme]

Add another asterisk:

* Juicer
**Pedophile

Way to go scumbag.

[eyecon]

Great. This idiocy is at "the top of the fold." Meanwhile, the Supreme Court decision affirming voter ID laws is nowhere to be found. A chunk of "our" voters has just been disenfranchised.

[geobushono]

well now, At 15, Cindy moved her career ahead without th'trauma' of an almost risque' photo.
....and it all happenedin america...go figure.

[bigpat]

Too bad Mark Foley isn't around to lead the Congressional Hearing. Maybe Ms. McCready can confirm the presence of a hematoma caused by multiple injections on his butt cheek?

FYI Roger-heard there are some hot new pics of Miley Cyrus floating around.