Sports activities commentator Pat McAfee says he met with an Ole Miss pupil who was on the heart of a false on-line rumor he mentioned on his standard ESPN present and apologized to her for feeding into the viral consideration the claims obtained.
“We weren’t clear at that time the place the story originated from. It was all around the web. But by the point we talked about it, the story was all over the place,” McAfee said on his show Wednesday. “I’ve since realized that the story was not true, and that my present performed a job within the anguish induced to a fantastic household and particularly to a younger lady, Mary Kate Cornett.”
McAfee stated he “by no means desires to be a supply of negativity or contribute to a different human’s struggling,” and when he met with Cornett and her household he was capable of “sincerely apologize to them and acknowledge that what I stated about Mary Kate was based mostly solely on what others have been saying on the web, or what had beforehand been reported by others, and that we had no private data about Mary Kate or her private life.”
In February, Cornett was on the heart of a viral rumor about her love life that began on Ole Miss message boards and went viral on social media. She at one level threatened to sue McAfee, ESPN and a lot of different sports activities media personalities who used the viral story as fodder and content material.
“As you may think, there was lots occurring behind the scenes since this all occurred,” McAfee stated on Wednesday. “A very powerful ingredient on the timing is I, personally, it was a call I made, wished to speak to the household first earlier than addressing it publicly. And I can now say that I had the chance to satisfy them, chat with them, they usually’re fantastic individuals.”