VIDEO – Steve Phillips talks about sex addiction, responsibility for Brooke Hundley affair on the Today Show
Steve Phillips appeared on The Today Show this morning (February 12, 2010) immediately after checking out of sex rehab. The former ESPN analyst and New York Mets manager spent some time at Pine Grove Behavorioal Health and Addiction Services in Mississippi, which happens to be the one that Tiger Woods and his doppelganger may or may not have been treated.
Today Phillips says he’s not using sex addiction as an excuse for his behavior, and takes full responsibility for the things that happened.
Phillips said that he recognized that he had a sex addiction problem in August 2009, before his scandal with Brooke Hundley broke in October. August was also when he ended things with Brooke, and she went a little berserk, writing a tell-all “delusional” letter to his wife Marni, leaving her voice mails, posing on Facebook to gain information from Marni and Steve’s son, and getting a restraining order against Steve. He said he was planning to go get treatment on a Friday before he was fired on a Sunday, when his relationship with Brooke Hundley became public.
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Right now Steve is trying to work on his relationship with Marni, though he doesn’t know if their marriage will survive. This isn’t the first time he’s been involved with an extramarital work-related sex scandal, so it may be difficult to repair this marriage. In 1998 Mets employee Rosa Rodriguez, with whom he had had an affair, threatened to sue Phillips and the team for sexual harassment. He admitted having multiple “consensual” sexual affairs with Rodriquez and others while he was married. This dalliance didn’t cost him his job that time, and he remained with the Mets until 2003.
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