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Tearful Singer: Clemens Affair Rumors True

Country star McCready confirms relationship with embattled pitcher

By Sam Gale Rosen,  Newser Staff

Posted Apr 29, 2008 11:17 AM CDT
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(Newser) – Country star Mindy McCready confirmed that she had a 10-year affair with Roger Clemens in a tearful interview yesterday with the New York Daily News. "I cannot refute anything in the story," McCready says. The two met in 1991, when the singer was 15, and Clemens was 28 and married, although the relationship didn't become sexual until later.

Clemens is under FBI investigation for perjury, and has filed an anti-defamation lawsuit against ex-trainer Brian McNamee for accusing him of doping. Lawyers for McNamee say they will call McCready as a character witness. "If there are other women—and there's not just one case, but many—and he holds himself out as a family man and an American paradigm, it's relevant," one said.

In this Feb. 7, 2008 file photo, Roger Clemens pauses during a news conference after his meetings with members of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington.
In this Feb. 7, 2008 file photo, Roger Clemens pauses during a news conference after his meetings with members of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington.   (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)
This booking provided by the Williamson County Sheriff's Department in Franklin, Tenn., shows country music singer Mindy McCready, Wednesday, July 25, 2007.
This booking provided by the Williamson County Sheriff's Department in Franklin, Tenn., shows country music singer Mindy McCready, Wednesday, July 25, 2007.   (AP Photo/Williamson County Sheriff, HO)
This Aug. 22, 2006 file photo shows country singer Mindy McCready in Franklin, Tenn.
This Aug. 22, 2006 file photo shows country singer Mindy McCready in Franklin, Tenn.   (AP Photo/John Russell, File)
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