The owner of Barstool Dave Portnoy He said this week To seek to apologize for the role of his website in the false “Zhaki rumors” on Groundings at the Faculty to say “ruined” her life, acknowledging that he is also in conversations with young men.
Portnoy’s apology comes after ESPN Star McAfee a briefly touched situationsaying she wants to find “silver lining” week after Increasing unspecified Internet gossip That Ole Miss Student Mary Kate Cornett slept with his boyfriend’s father.
Cornett and her family claim that they were victims of savage harassment after McAfee members in the air and promised to keep him and other hosts of sports conversations that spread the villas of the rumors “Responsibly” which includes Barsool Persons KFC BARSTOOL and JACK MAC.
The 19-year-old student says that her life faced upside down at the end of February after false statements about her sexual life began to circulate the Internet, only for them who will quickly pick up McAfee. Recourse the request for “everyone on the Internet”, McAfee and his only described “Stooges” spoke in length related to the salon story during the NFL broadcast.
“Some Miss Frat Brother, K? He had a girlfriend KD (Kappa Delta),” Mcafee exclaimed without the girlfriend in the center of the rumor. “At this exact moment, this is what is applying … Everyone on the Internet: Dad had sex with his son’s girlfriend.”
In short, two barsolate hosts sent rumors in their accounts on social networks, allowing him to collect the steam online. Posts have been deleted since then.
Speaking with NBC News About the role of his page played in promoting untruths, Portnoy said he understood why Cornett and her family “P * ssed” for some situation “practically ruined” his life. “
“It’s a vicious rumor,” he noted. “I’m sad, and I wish we didn’t play any part in it.”
He also admitted that the statement he gave Rolling stone In February By denying that Barstool was involved in handling, claiming that the location editors felt that the story was “fictional”, it was incorrect.
“Yes, I thought they were really stupid,” Portnoy said NBC News asked what he thought about his colleagues. “I thought we were better than that.”
Adding he wanted to “throw” when he realized that Bardool was attached to promoting rumors, Portnoy said “apologize” to Cornett while he was already in contact with his lawyers. According to the Barstool Founder, its legal team offered two trails to resolution – mediation or lawsuit.
“I think we’ll try to mediate. I don’t know what we made a mistake. It’s a little different question. But we’re morally not right,” Portnoy said. “I praised I morally thought we were right.”
Still, Portnoy also admitted that he is not very sure “how you put toothpaste in the pipe.” Cornett, Meanwhile, said NBC news that McAfeee’s segment and next post of other prominent sports figures resulted in her reception “thousands of” mistreating messages as a “coordinated” cyberattack.
“I thought it was absolutely ridiculous that the ESPN sports radio record could talk about” a sexual scandal with a girl, “he said completely false,” he said, adding to you who have no idea that you are the worst feeling in the world. “
During the cast event on Wednesday evening, McAfee – for the first time since Cornett threatened to take legal action – briefly alludes to controversy Referencing the library lawsuit faces Brett Favre, which later fell.
“I’m great with Brett, just like the current situation that happens, where I have a lot of people saying I should be sad,” he said. “I want to say that: never, I never want to be a part of anything negative in one’s life, ever. It’s not what I want to do.”
McAfee added: “And for that whole thing that happens, I didn’t want to add more negativity, as I will try to understand and make some kind of silver lining in a very terrible situation. It won’t have what it’s impossible to be my fan that goes forward.”
ESPN repeatedly refused to comment on McAfee’s comments and the intersection of the cornet in the lawsuit.