The lady alleging that former NFL nice and ESPN character Shannon Sharpe raped her confronted him in a textual content trade earlier this 12 months.
The lady texted Sharpe — in accordance with a trove of messages launched to the media by Sharpe’s lawyer, Lanny J. Davis — on Jan. 2 that “no means no” and that she didn’t know “how to process” the scenario.
“But I cried when u left because I begged you to put a condom on and not put it in my ass and u didn’t listen,” the lady, who was named by Sharpe’s authorized staff however isn’t being recognized by The Put up, texted him.
“I don’t care what our history is, no means no shannon.”
The textual content was adopted up by the message about processing what occurred, resulting in Sharpe asking if he may “call you later?”
It wasn’t clear from the launched textual content adjustments whether or not they mentioned what had occurred on the telephone.
Sharpe is dealing with a $50 million lawsuit alleging that he raped the lady, believed to be in her 20s, on two events in October 2024 and January 2025.
The go well with claims Sharpe threatened to kill the lady a number of occasions, was “manipulating and controlling” and “repeatedly threatening to brutally choke and violently slap her.”
The lawsuit additionally described issues between the 2 as a “rocky consensual relationship” and claimed that Sharpe had assaulted, sexually assaulted, dedicated battery, sexual battery and had deliberately inflicted emotional misery in the course of the relationship.
Davis described the lots of of textual content messages launched on Tuesday as displaying “a pattern of sexual role-playing that specifically includes her being choked by [Sharpe].”
The alleged sufferer’s lawyer, Tony Buzbee, additionally launched an announcement on Tuesday to the New York Instances.
“I look forward to presenting the evidence in this case through the judicial process, where the truth matters more than a sports icon’s desperate public spin,” he mentioned.
Sharpe has denied the allegations.
ESPN advised The Put up it had “no comment” on the scenario on Monday.
