Roger Clemens began an affair with country music singer Mindy McCready when she was just 15 years old.
Roger Clemens began the affair when he was 28, a married father of two and pitching for the Boston Red Sox while Mindy McCready was a karaoke bar performer dreaming of a singing career.
By: Steven Chu
Apr 28, 2008, 7:54 PM EDT
Major League Baseball star Roger Clemens began a 10-year affair with country music singer Mindy McCready when she was just 15 years old. Clemens began the affair when he was 28, a married father of two and pitching for the Boston Red Sox while McCready, now 32, was a karaoke bar performer dreaming of a singing career. Such an affair would undermine the defamation lawsuit Clemens filed on January 6 against former trainer Brian McNamee, who claimed he injected Clemens with steroids and human growth hormone several times between 1998 and 2001. Rusty Hardin, Clemens' attorney, said Clemens and McCready had a long-term relationship but stated it was not sexual in nature. "He flatly denies having had any kind of an inappropriate relationship with her," Hardin said. "He has considered her a close family friend. ... He has never had a sexual relationship with her."
Hardin also said Clemens' wife Debbie knew McCready and knew the singer had traveled on the plane with the pitcher. Clemens, a seven-time Cy Young Award-winner nicknamed "The Rocket", testified before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on February 13 that he never took steroids or human growth hormone. However, two months ago, committee chairman Henry Waxman asked the US Justice Department to investigate Clemens because his accounts differed greatly with those of McNamee and Andy Pettitte, a former Clemens teammate also trained by McNamee. McCready is the subject of a reality television show and documentary and lives in Nashville, Tennessee, as she attempts a musical comeback with a new album.
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