Embattled Major League Baseball star Roger Clemens began a 10-year affair with country music singer Mindy McCready when she was just 15 years old, the New York Daily News reported on Monday.
Citing several unnamed sources, the newspaper’s report is the latest blow to the legendary pitcher’s reputation as he fights allegations of steroid doping and remains under investigation for lying at a Congressional hearing.
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, the News reported.
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.
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.
But 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.
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