A recruit of Ole Miss says that she wants to hold the star of the ESPN Pat McAfee and other personalities from the sports media “responsible” for “ruining my life” by amplifying false rumors about her on their programs, according to Athletics.
“They don’t think it matters because they don’t know who I am and they think I deserve it,” said Mary Kate Cornett, 18, about false claims. “But I don’t do it.”
During the broadcast of February 26 of his podcast, which is simultaneous on ESPN, McAfee cut off his analysis of the NFL scout combination to approach a very different subject. Addressing his self-written “Stooges” and the initiate of the NFL of ESPN, Adam Schefter, McAfee decided to speak long of an underect and salated story that had bubbed on social networks.
Ask his crew if they had “heard of Ole Miss”, which prompted one of his acolytes to declare “there is a three -way house”, McAfee says that there is a rumor that “really captivated the Internet”. With a confused and uncomfortable schef, McAfee is in detail.
“Some Ole Miss Frat Bro, K? Had a girlfriend KD (Kappa Delta),” he exclaimed, without mentioning the girl in the center of the rumor. “” At this precise moment, this is what is reported by … everyone on the internet: Dad had sex with her son’s girlfriend. “”
He continued by saying that the “scenario of the worst case” was that “it was made public”, before Schefter finally tried to change the conversation to the next draft of the NFL: “So, where is (Ole Miss Quarterback) Jaxson Dart in all this?”
Although he never said that the name of Cornett, who was the teenager in the center of this wild rumor, McAfee continued to joke on the “shoe” college fathers in their combined analysis while one of his cohorts joked: “Ole Miss Dads touches the meat at the moment.”
One day before the broadcast of McAfee, Cornett said that her world collapsed around her when a specious statement that she had an affair with her boyfriend’s father was suddenly published on the anonymous Yikyak social media application. He found life on X (formerly Twitter), where it was a high -level subject, and quickly made his way to the world of sports conversation dominated by men, including the very well rated spectacle of McAfee.
While McAfee was the most important sports media personality that stimulated history, it was hardly alone. KFC Barstool and Jack Mac of Barstool Sports also referenced it on their social media accounts, with Jack Mac going so far as to promote a same based on Cornett. The host of St. Louis Sports Talk, Doug Vaughn, radically told the “saga” on a local ESPN station, which then promoted the clip on Instagram as entering the series “Infidelity Alley”.
Representatives of McAfee, Barstool Sports and Vaughn did not immediately respond to a request for comments. ESPN refused to comment.
“When the most popular people started to publish, that’s when it really changed,” said Cornett AthleticsAdding that they legitimized something that was “completely false”.
The amplification of the parasitic rumor led to harassment crawling not only of Cornett but also of his family and his boyfriend. The day after the McAfee segment, for example, his mother was the victim of a “loot” incident when the police showed up at his Houston house with shot. Cornett has also received countless degrading and obscene vocal messages when his phone number was published online.
“The only way I could describe it is that it was as if you are walking with your daughter in the street, holding her hand, and a car mirror hangs her shirt and starts dragging her on the road. And all you can do is watch,” said Cornett’s father, Justin, said Athletics. “You can’t get the car. You cannot prevent it from happening. You just need to sit down and look at your child being destroyed. ”
His boyfriend and Cornett both brought social media to publish statements refusing accusations as “unequivocal” and “disturbing”, while his father enlisted a private investigator to examine the “defamatory” attack. Justin Cornett also contacted the FBI and the local police to investigate the issue.
Meanwhile, Cornett retained lawyer Monica Uddin when she intends to bring legal action against McAfee and ESPN. “I would like people to be responsible for what they have done,” said Cornett. “You ruin my life by talking about it in your show for nothing other than attention, but here I stand up until 5 am, every night, throwing, I do not eat because I am so worried about what will happen for the rest of my life.”
Uddin also said that she was going to explore a possible action on the launch of the same named after Cornett. “This is just a version of the Far West of a very familiar problem,” she said. “It’s just that it’s even worse because she is not a business. She is an 18 -year -old girl.”
McAfee has become one of the biggest names in sports media in recent years. In addition to winning $ 17 million a year from ESPN to broadcast its popular podcast, the former bettor of the NFL has become a familiar face on the network College gameday shows. He has also become a familiar face to fans of the pro struggle, because he is a color commentator for the long duration of WWE Monday evening gross program.
At the same time, McAfee has courted the controversy with its “program”, which, according to him, is only a “collection of stooges” which speaks of sports and “to be comical”. The program’s non-responsibility clause recognizes that it regularly exceeds the line, specifically declaring: “PS does not continue.”
McAfee, which has the controversial NFL star, Aaron Rodgers, like a nearby Palm and even paid the quarter-arre to appear regularly on its program, let its program be a platform for some of the most conspiratory diatribes of Rodgers on vaccines. In addition, Rodgers suggested to McAfee that the end of evening host Jimmy Kimmel was a customer of the sexual trafficker in disgrace Jeffrey Epstein, which prompted Kimmel to threaten a trial.
McAfee would apologize later for her role in the Kerfuffle, as well as for the star of the WNBA Caitlin Clark for her for her as a white B **** “, affirming that her” intentions “should be” complementary “.