Traci Nobles On Anthony Weiner Photos, Facebook Chats: 'It Was More Than Just Sexual'

Traci Nobles appeared Friday on NBC's "Today" show to discuss her online relationship with Anthony Weiner. The 35-year-old cheerleading coach from Georgia exchanged explicit Facebook messages and video chatting with Weiner via Skype over a period of eight months. And despite the media scrutiny the scandal has caused, she says she doesn't regret it.

“I follow politics pretty closely, so I was a big fan of Anthony Weiner's politics. And so Facebook -- I started to follow his public page,” Nobles told host Ann Curry about how their relationship began.

“He friended me. I liked his posts or commented on his posts.... So he reached out to me,” she said.

“It was mutual,” Nobles said of her relationship with Weiner. “I'm not a victim.”

“I was flattered,” Nobles said. “It was more than just sexual. We exchanged music or talked about life in general. It wasn't really personal as far as going into personal lives or that sort of thing.”

“It happened. It is what it is,” Nobles told Curry. “I don't regret it.”

Nobles was outed earlier this month by her roommate, who sent a screenshot of a private Facebook conversation between Nobles and Weiner to the Las Vegas Sun.

“I really regret that this was sent to you,” Nobles told the Sun.“She thought someone should know.”

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[Rachel Spencer]

09:31 AM on 06/19/2011

It's the stupid stupid. Awwh she doesnt regret her actions, but sorry her roomate sent the screenshot. So either her roomate hacked her account to get into her "private" facebook conversations with Weiner, or she was sharing her private conversations with her roomate and they were having a ball wondering how to use this to their advanatage one day. Preserved blue dress anyone.

[ChaCubed]

03:26 PM on 06/19/2011

Sounds to me that they were goofing on him:

"Hey, you have to come see what he said/sent me this time!!!!"
*screaming laughter*
"Oh em gee, you have to tell him how hot he is!!!!"
*screaming laughter*

[camelias and sweet tea]

08:56 AM on 06/19/2011

Sorry, Honey, that ship sailed and you hardly got your 15 minutes.

[budanatr]

07:52 AM on 06/19/2011

Someone needs to tell this woman that the boat already sailed and she is too late to get any more attention except for the soap opera queens and kings at AOL and Fox.

[bayarea000]

12:26 AM on 06/19/2011

this is ridiculous for these"women" to do interviews. look it was STUPID for weiner to do this but these women looking for thier 15 minutes of fame. what a sick, stupid country we live in.

[wdw808]

06:49 AM on 06/19/2011

so move

[Scottsman]

09:08 PM on 06/18/2011

I live near Forks Wa, before 9-11 we had a handful of border patrol agents , a terrorist coming from canada with a car full of explosives was caught here In Port Angeles by 3 ...ill repeat 3 agents, Now there is a battalion of Border patrol agents who are invasive in every aspect of law enforcement out side there mandate of protecting our borders. They harass Everyone regardless of status or race, Big money for Wal-mart security

[JAB1980]

08:27 PM on 06/18/2011

1. With room-mates like that as friends, who needs enemies?
2. Why do women have to constantly surface on TV when they are linked to these scandals as if they have to clear their reputation? A reputation is better off remaining anonymous. It is NOT a badge of honor to be linked to a sleazy man. It doesn't matter if you are having sex, sexting, have a work relationship, or just innocent chats...you are FOREVER linked as the other woman in the scandal with the Golf Pro, Athlete, Actor or Politician.
3. Friends on facebook think that she shouldn't be held as a role model to the kids she coaches and that only the parents should be the moral role models. Another absurd argument as if kids would never emulate their music idols, teachers or coaches bad behavior but will be smart enough to emulate only the good behavior.
4. Politicians & journalists need to get to WORK and lose all the back story personal-life drama we have come to loathe.

[Peanut Santiago]

06:16 PM on 06/18/2011

If Weiner was only bothering to "talk" to pretty women and nobody else, THEN we have our answer.

He was not in it for platonic chatting.

All this woman is doing is making herself look bad....even if what they did on line wasn't X rated.
She looks like a star struck (for a politician) groupie.

She is getting her 15 minutes of fame (infamy), like the reality TV types.
If she has nothing else to offer but talking about Weiner, she will fade away.

[Bebe36]

06:09 PM on 06/18/2011

I think of Anthony Weiner's behavior as being akin to the creepy guy in a raincoat, flashing women in the local park.

[mnunns]

09:23 PM on 06/18/2011

And I think of the women that texted back with him are just as creepy; and I am a woman.

[Bebe36]

10:15 PM on 06/18/2011

Same here.

[Amishguy]

10:51 PM on 06/18/2011

Except he wan't flashing random people publicly. He was flirting in private with very willing participants. There is nothing creepy about it.

Wrong because he was married... yes. But it is far from creepy.

[Mamma Roma]

02:13 AM on 06/19/2011

What's creepy, is women flirting back with an unattractive exhibitionist because he is who is.

[JimR]

08:46 AM on 06/19/2011

He was engaging in explicit sex chat, not flirting.

[sirale]

04:53 PM on 06/18/2011

We are in the 21st century and judging people like in the middle ages. Unbelievable, his own party force him out for a behavior that only his wife should care about...

[Peanut Santiago]

06:21 PM on 06/18/2011

Personally, I don't care about his pics in themselves.
*********Though in our society, that pic of his "junk" was really a bad idea.

However, his actions show he has no common sense, is willing to take unnecessary big risks, and is more than willing to lie and blame others.
He just can't be trusted.

*****Yes, I know politicians lie and can't be trusted, but this guy was stu pid enough to take big risks and get caught.

[Amishguy]

10:52 PM on 06/18/2011

And why is David Vitter still a sitting Senator??

[Mamma Roma]

02:25 AM on 06/19/2011

If he didn't have her back, why should I believe he would have mine? Not much has changed in the 21st century so don't kid yourself, people are still the same superstitious villagers they always were and sometimes (even I hate to admit) they are right.

Cheaters never prosper, what comes around goes around and TRUTH, will ALWAYS come out.

[ChaCubed]

03:35 PM on 06/19/2011

Cheaters never prosper?

I'm sorry, that's a lovely sentiment, and may be some of that "common knowledge" people are so proud of, but it is blatantly false.

[Ghostberry]

04:24 PM on 06/18/2011

Cash that check you brave woman!

[spinotter11]

08:48 AM on 06/19/2011

The froth of the public forum - who has a problem with it? And if she can get paid for it, so much the better.

[ChaCubed]

03:36 PM on 06/19/2011

Now that you mention it, it appears that then-Representative Weiner never texted pictures of himself "frothing". As they say, it could have been worse. :-))

[Skeptiqone]

04:19 PM on 06/18/2011

Quick, hire Gloria Allred!

[Absolute]

12:03 PM on 06/18/2011

No, it wasn't honey. You're just another woman who is capable of self-delusion.

[spinotter11]

08:49 AM on 06/19/2011

You know, there are a lot fewer puritanical judges in the younger generation, I believe. They have all seen and done worse by the time they're fifteen.

[Absolute]

08:53 AM on 06/19/2011

Hopefully you are aware that these threads are for the purpose of providing opinion. I didn't judge her actions; I didn't judge Weiner's actions. I simply said that she is deluded because sexting does not a relationship make. I don't care if she sends nudepics into outer space, that's her choice.

[Margo Arrowsmith]

11:39 AM on 06/18/2011

I got a comment to my statement that sexting is stupid that was very angry, who do I think I am to say it was stupid?  It didn't get posted, but its worth an answer.

1.  If you don't think that it is stupid for anyone, let alone teens, to sext, then ask Anthony Weiner.

2.  Or better yet, ask teens who have texted someone they thought they knew and could trust only to find the content, often with pictures on Facebook or in other peoples' emails. 

3.  Then ask the ones who sexted people they didn't even know and have found themselves being hounded by the media.

4.  Ask the kids who have done this and months or years later discovered that future employers or college admissions people can find it. 

So I stand by my statement that sexting is dumb, even when doing it with a friend.  And this woman, with her delusions that sexting made her in important person to a Congressman from New York, is a very poor role model for teens.  Well, unless they know enough to know that this woman has messed up her future and see her as an example of what not to do.  Unfortunately, many teems will see the opposite.

[Absolute]

12:04 PM on 06/18/2011

It's definitely risky behavior and it can absolutely come back to haunt you.

[UneMondeNouveau]

01:56 PM on 06/18/2011

This was a 35 year old woman having a private Facebook chat with a consenting adult. No teens involved, and no "sexting" was involved. Please stop the fear mongering and the vicious rumors.

She did not mess up her future.

[Bebe36]

02:11 PM on 06/18/2011

Oh, yes she did.

[Margo Arrowsmith]

02:18 PM on 06/18/2011

1.  She is doing interviews about her delusions that there was something meaningful in her interactions. 

2.  She has messed up her chances at getting many future jobs

[Whinger]

10:55 AM on 06/18/2011

The never ending story of the Facebook Follies, some folk just never learn!

[kin1409]

10:49 AM on 06/18/2011

Quick Traci, your 15 min are over.

[R U Mad]

11:33 AM on 06/18/2011

So is Weiner's!

[UneMondeNouveau]

01:57 PM on 06/18/2011

Can you read? Her roommate sent the screenshots to the media, and she wishes it didn't happen. When people are spreading lies about you and trying to defame you, it's important to set the record straight.

[Margo Arrowsmith]

02:26 PM on 06/18/2011

1.  She may not have sent the pictures out, but she is doing the interviews and basking in her 15 minutes with her delusions.

2.  You just proved my point about sexting being stupid and risky.  Once you put it out there you no longer have any control over what will happen to it. 

3.  This should be a warning to kids, but she is romanticising it and making it look attractive to young girls and young women.