Last year, allegations that superstar football player Peyton Manning had sexually assaulted a female trainer in 1996 when he was at the University of Tennessee resurfaced when he was named as one of the athletes in a Title IX lawsuit claiming that the university was a “hostile sexual environment” for women.
The trainer, Dr. Jamie Naughright, claimed that Manning had placed his naked genitals on her face. She settled a lawsuit with Manning in 1997 with the agreement that she would leave the school. She once again sued Manning in 2003 after he described her and the incident in an unflattering light in his autobiography.
In an interview with Inside Edition that aired on Monday, Naughright went into detail about her interaction with Manning, stating that at the time she felt “repulsed” and “intimidated.”
“I felt something on my face and Peyton had pulled his shorts down and sat his anus and his testicles on my face,” she explained. “So I pushed him up and out. He turned around, pulled his shorts back up.”
Naughright also noted that “anger” and “violence” on Manning’s face during the alleged assault. “It was definitely a predator, intimidating, anger, violent eyes that he had,” she added.
Mannings’s attorney provided Inside Edition with the following statement in response to the interview:
“Peyton Manning has been absolutely clear: Jamie Naughright’s accusations are false. When her claims were first investigated 21 years ago, she told a very different story. Her current account was invented several years later in connection with her first of several groundless litigations against Peyton. Most recently, she left Peyton’s mother a vulgar and extremely disturbing voicemail. Ms. Naughright should stop this abusive behavior.”
Naughright explained that phone call by stating that she’s on Ambien and “somehow found that number and anger and Ambien is not a good combination.”
