Mindy McCready Does Not Deny Clemens Affair

Posted by amyclark on 08/24/2008
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4/29/2008 Webb Country Music singer Mindy McCready isn't challenging the New York Daily News story that said she had a relationship as a teenager with Roger Clemens. Mindy McCready says she cannot deny any of the information the New York Daily News published regarding an affair with Clemens.  "I cannot refute anything in the story," McCready told the Daily News in a story posted on its Web site Monday.  "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. "At no time did Roger engage in any kind of inappropriate or improper relationship with her," Hardin said in a statement Monday. "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 website 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. Today, the AP is reporting that: 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 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 News-Press in Fort Myers reported on Monday that McCready's mother confirmed her daughter's long-term relationship with Clemens, but believes the relationship is strictly platonic. McCready's Nashville-based management consultant, John Dotson, told The Tennessean Monday that McCready is in the middle of cutting a record, and also is in negotiations to do a reality show.