Brooke Phillips,Brooke Phillips Cathouse
November 14, 2009
Brooke Phillips,Brooke Phillips Cathouse:whose affair with with the ousted ESPN baseball analyst rocked the sports world, said Thursday the funnyman’s cracks about her looks pushed her to the “breaking point.
“I had a friend come stay with me because he was concerned … that mentally I would not be able to take much more,” a teary-eyed Hundley told Kate Snow of ABC’s “Good Morning America.”
In an opening monologue after the scandal broke, Leno compared a photo of Hundley to Phillips’ wife, Marni, and asked, “What was he thinking?”
Hundley took responsibility for the anguish she caused Marni Phillips by delivering her a letter detailing the affair with her husband. “I brought it on, but not intentionally,” she said.
“I simply wanted somebody to get upset enough to have an impact, to get me out of this horrific situation.”
Asked if she has a message for her former lover, Hundley said she hoped Phillips “would grow up and take responsibility for his own actions.”
Hundley became a punchline after a frantic Marni Phillips made a 911 call to Connecticut cops in August telling them a “crazy” woman was on her property and gave her a letter.
“I’m the woman he’s been seeing for a while now,” she wrote. “I’m not just some random girl he had sex with in parking lots.”
That was followed by revelations that Hundley cyberstalked Phillips’ son via Facebook and asked him creepy questions about his parents’ love life.
A former general manager of the New York Mets whose tenure there was marred by another sex scandal, Phillips admitted to three sexual encounters with Hundley.
He called his paramour “obsessive and delusional” and told cops he feared for the safety of his family.
ESPN fired both of them as the scandal spread.
Phillips is in rehab for sex addiction and his wife has filed for divorce, the sportscaster’s lawyer said.
Hundley declined to go into detail about the affair but insisted she was no stalker and “didn’t harass anyone.” “I did things I regret, obviously,” she added. “People make mistakes at 22.”
Hundley said she was too afraid to tell ESPN’s human resources department she had sex with one of their top on-air talents.continue
