Antonio Brown says ‘I owe the whole NFL an apology’, addresses mental health, CTE
Antonio Brown apologized to the entire NFL during an interview with ESPN’s Josina Anderson on Friday.
Anderson asked Brown if he feels like he owes anyone in the league an apology.
“I think I owe the whole NFL an apology and my past behavior,” Brown said. “I think I could have done a lot of things better.”
Brown’s expansive interview covered whether or not he needs mental health help, the sexual assault allegations against him, his non-concern over developing chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), and what he thinks of NFL commissioner Roger Goodell’s comments earlier this week.
Brown’s mental health a concern
Brown, 31, was asked if he feels the need to address his mental health.
“We all need mental help,” Brown said, via ESPN. “From our friends, from the people we hang around, from the people we consult with every day. Yeah, we need mental help.
“I’m like an animal in a cage. Everyone just talks about me. I can’t go out my house in the private. Everything I do is in the face of people, face of someone talking, someone making an assumption about me.”
Following Brown’s latest arrest in January, during which police say he attacked a moving truck driver, a judge required he undergo a mental health evaluation as terms of his bail agreement. Brown is charged with felony burglary with battery, burglary of an unoccupied conveyance and criminal mischief.
The star receiver’s mental health has remained a question since before the NFL season began. The mother of his children publicly posted she would distance them from him until he seeks “the mental health that he desperately needs”, while his agent Drew Rosenhaus “conditionally” cut ties with Brown until he seeks help.
Brown doesn’t think he has CTE
In addition to his mental health concerns, there have been questions about Brown and CTE, the brain disease caused by repeated head injuries that can’t be confirmed until after death.
Brown was nearly knocked unconscious by then-Cincinnati Bengals linebacker Vontaze Burfict in a scary 2016 playoff game while he was with the Pittsburgh Steelers. That hit has been brought up more often now after Brown’s past 13 months of behavior.
Anderson asked Brown if he thought he had CTE, or if he was concerned about it.
“Nah,” he told Anderson in the video by ESPN, “if I had CTE I wouldn’t be able to have this beautiful gym, I wouldn’t be able to be creative. I wouldn’t be able to communicate.”
Anderson reminded him there are stages of the disease, and he could be in an early one.
“I’m perfectly fine. I didn’t take that many big hits. I had like one big hit in 10 years. Anybody who plays this game, they’re going to get hit hard.
“He didn’t hit me that hard. You know, I got up and walked off the field. We won the game. I was all right. You play the game long enough, everyone get hit hard.”
Brown: ‘I’m a target’ for allegations, media
Brown said he is a target, hence why there are cases filed in court against him, and that the “media will run” with any of those allegations. He called it “unfair.”
“I feel like I never really got in a conflict with no woman,” Brown said, via ESPN. “I just feel like I’m a target so, anybody can come against me and say anything [that] I have to face. There’s no support, there’s no egos, there’s no rules in it, anyone can come after me for anything. No proof or whatever. ‘He said, she’s saying.’
“The media will run with it, so even if I’m not guilty, I’m already guilty because they already wrote it, put it on TV and put that in people’s minds. So for me to have to sit here and hear those allegations of me is just unfair to me every time.”
Brown’s legal troubles are lengthy. There are multiple allegations of rape and sexual misconduct. A lawsuit filed in September shortly after he signed with the New England Patriots includes profane text messages to the woman that brag about the incident.
He live-streamed a profane outburst directed at Hollywood (Fla.) police, and that included him berating his children’s mother. It was filmed with his children present. That resulted in the department cutting ties with him. Brown apologized via Instagram earlier Friday.
Brown denied the accusations of sexual misconduct to Anderson, as he has previously done through lawyers. He said he “can’t speak on it” and the courts will handle it.
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Man on bond for attempted murder of ex-girlfriend returns to Hammond and kills her
A man released on a nearly $8,000 bond for the attempted murder of his ex-girlfriend allegedly returned to the crime scene three months later and fatally shot her Wednesday, prosecutors in northwest Indiana say.
Charles Goforth, 56, was arrested Thursday in Missouri and charged with the murder of 55-year-old Sylvia Williams, according to Hammond police.
“A very frustrating case,” Hammond Mayor Thomas McDermott Jr. said in a statement posted to Facebook. “Hammond police caught and arrested the same man in November … then, a few weeks later, he returned to the same house and killed [Williams],” he wrote.
“The system failed the victim in this case,” McDermott wrote. “The violent felon should have never been set free on bond in the first place.”
Before the murder, Goforth “constantly” called her to “smooth things over” because he did not want to go to jail for the previous murder attempt, according to a court document provided by Lake County prosecutors.
A relative found Williams dead on the floor of her home Wednesday morning in the Sheffield Estates mobile home park with seven bullets in her body: five from the Wednesday shooting and two from the previous murder attempt, prosecutors said in a court document.
Williams was pronounced dead at a hospital at 8:15 a.m., and her death was ruled a homicide, the Lake County coroner’s office said.
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Wendy Williams is sick of being harassed over her lymphedema
While unwinding during her “Wendy Show” after-show chat with fans, Wendy Williams, 55, decided to call out people who ask negative questions about her looks — rather than opening up to the television personality via more meaningful inquiries.
“Stop asking me about the cankles, I have lymphedema,” she said on her Instagram story Friday afternoon. “Stop asking me why I wear sneakers, I have lymphedema. Stop asking me why my eyes bulge, I’ve got Graves’ disease. Stop asking me, like, dumb mess! Can we connect on a more cerebral level?”
The former radio host added that she would be more than happy to connect with viewers who ask for advice on careers or relationships.
“That’s what the after show is all about,” she went on. “It’s us, just talking, communicating, having fun, being silly but also informative.”
In July 2019, Williams shared that she was diagnosed with lymphedema, which causes swelling in the arms and legs. Soon after, she purchased an at-home machine to help mitigate symptoms.
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NJ woman reported missing after visiting medium found dead, prosecutors say
A body found over the weekend in New Jersey is a 25-year-old woman reported missing nearly three months ago after visiting a medium, prosecutors said Monday.
“It is with great sadness we announce that Stephanie Parze’s remains were recovered yesterday in Old Bridge,” the Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office tweeted Monday morning.
Her body was found Sunday afternoon in a wooded area, near where her family had searched for her in late November, online news outlet Tap Middletown reported.
Police were expected to provide more details at a press conference scheduled for 11:30 a.m. Monday.
Authorities said Parze’s ex-boyfriend John Ozbilgen, 29, killed himself in November after his release from jail on a child porn charge and he is being fingered as a person of interest in her disappearance.
Ozbilgen had been accused of sending Parze profanity-filled threats the day before she disappeared.
After Parze went missing, police charged Ozbilgen with possessing child pornography after searching his home. After the charge was filed, he was jailed and released on bond.
Parze’s visited a medium with friends on Oct. 30. She was reported missing the next day.
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Meghan Markle’s first gig will be reality-TV show about second weddings
Meghan Markle‘s first post-Royal TV gig — albeit part-time — will be a Canadian reality show about second weddings, The Post has learned.
Markle, 38, will make multiple appearances on “I Do, Redo,” joining her best friend, Toronto wedding stylist Jessica Mulroney, who is the star of the upcoming Netflix show, according to a source close to the production team.
Her guest spots will be “sporadic,” according to the source, who would not say if Markle will be paid.
Union scale for a guest role on Canadian TV is $588 a day, which could jump-start the former Duke and Duchess of Sussex’ newly announced effort to become “financially independent.”
The 10-part series “revisits first-time wedding disasters before re-making the wedding dreams of 10 devoted couples,” according to a press release.
Markle — once divorced, and now married to her own prince — certainly has the resume to help brides remarry their Prince Charmings in the weddings of their dreams.
It was only two years ago when the American princess celebrated her own version of “I Do, Redo” with a lavish celebrity-studded ceremony and series of parties in Britain, which cost more than $42 million. Her wedding dress was designed by Givenchy, and her custom-made engagement ring was made from a diamond sourced from Botswana and two smaller stones from Harry’s mother’s — Princess Diana’s — collection.
Mulroney, 39, shot to international celebrity as Markle’s matron of honor, posing for the world’s cameras in a snug, royal blue dress by Canadian designer Antoinette Di Carlo. Her three young children also participated in the royal wedding party.
After frequent appearances on “Good Morning America,” where she gives advice on how to dress on a budget, Mulroney was tapped to star in the reality show, which features couples in the US and Canada.
Markle, who has been living in a billionaire’s mansion in Vancouver with infant son Archie since her dramatic split from the British royals in January, is currently shopping for a Hollywood agent, according to reports last week. Prince Harry recently moved to Canada to join his wife and son.
Last month, Markle signed a deal with Disney to do voice-over work on an unspecified project in exchange for a donation to an elephant charity she supports.
Few details have emerged about the wedding series, although Mulroney has posted some outtakes showing her traveling with a film crew, with stops in Florida and Connecticut as well as the Caribbean to her Instagram account.
“I am so blessed that I can show the world a side of myself that truly inspires me,” said Mulroney in a social media post after the show was announced last year. “A side of the wedding industry that has never been shown on television.”
Mulroney is married to the son of former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and met Markle while the former actress was based in Toronto to film “Suits,” where she starred as Rachel Zane, a paralegal in a law firm.
Mulroney recently angered fans of Markle’s sister-in-law Kate Middleton when she appeared to dismiss photo portraits that Middleton had taken of British Holocaust survivors.
“Pretty pictures are pretty pictures,” wrote Mulroney on social media just as Middleton posted her photos for International Holocaust Remembrance Day last week. “Strive to use your platform for good and spread stories of incredible people striving to make this world a better place.”
The brutal backlash from Middleton fans on social media prompted Mulroney’s husband, Ben, to defend her online, saying that his wife’s post was linked to a campaign to help victims of flight 752, which was shot down in Iran last month.
Repeated calls and emails to the Toronto offices of Insight Productions and Matador Content in Manhattan, which are involved in the production of the series were not returned last week.
A Toronto-based publicist who is working on Mulroney’s show refused comment on Markle Friday, but said that filming on “I Do, Redo” is still not complete, and that no date had been set for its premiere. Saturday afternoon, the Canadian network, CTV Communications, tweeted out a statement saying “The Duchess of Sussex does not appear in upcoming @CTV series I do Redo.”
The 30-minute episodes will be streamed internationally on Netflix, which is co-producing the show along with Canada’s Bell Media.
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‘It makes people uncomfortable’: inside the Weinstein-inspired thriller about complicity
Based on interviews with former employees, writer-director Kitty Green’s The Assistant looks at a toxic workplace through the eyes of a single young worker
The horror in The Assistant, a new film about an entry-level employee at a Weinstein-esque film production company, trickles out slowly, in bits small enough to leave room for doubt. That is why Jane (a brilliant Julia Garner), the recent college graduate through whose eyes we observe a pattern of sexism and (implied) sexual abuse, is often found hesitating, simultaneously swallowing her concerns and setting her face.
The Assistant, written and directed by Australian film-maker Kitty Green, explores a specific shadow of the #MeToo reckoning that often focuses solely on powerful men, or a stark harasser-victim narrative: the experience of adjacency, and of being an inadvertent or reluctant accomplice to the work culture that protects predators and abuse. Jane, an aspiring producer, is just weeks into her administrative pay-your-dues assistant role at a company steered by an imposing man we never see, and only hear in occasional berating phone calls. The film follows her over the course of one day, as she turns the lights on before dawn, makes the coffee, mans the phones; she also removes syringes from her boss’s trash can, accompanies a pretty, young intern to a hotel room the boss later visits and defuses angry phone calls from his wife. At every turn, she’s told: nothing to see here.
The film, keeping with its clear parallels to the Weinstein company, emerged out of the reporting of the film mogul’s alleged decades of sexual assault and workplace harassment in the fall of 2017 – coverage which triggered a wave of stories exposing toxic men and a reckoning with abuses of power now known as the #MeToo movement. At the time, Green was working on a project about consent on American college campuses, but switched track after “reading the media coverage … all focused on these men – Harvey Weinstein, the idea that if we get rid of him, the problem is fixed”, Green told the Guardian. “I was trying to make a film that highlighted, basically, that the problem is so much bigger than just these men.” You could remove Weinstein, or ex-CBS CEO Les Moonves, or former Today show anchor Matt Lauer – powerful men in the media industry accused of assault or harassment – but that wouldn’t address the sprawling rot facilitating them, or looking the other way.
If Ronan Farrow’s Catch and Kill and She Said, by the New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor on their Weinstein reporting, focused on complicity at the top level – lawyers, executives, celebrity friends working behind the scenes to manage and suppress – Green’s film goes straight to the bottom rung: the young female assistant wanting a break in a cutthroat business. In preparation for writing the film, Green said she interviewed dozens of former assistants in the film industry, some from Weinstein’s two production companies, Miramax and the Weinstein Company, some who “work for people who are still in power now”. She also expanded from film to entertainment at large – agencies and studios, and eventually “people in tech, people in engineering – they all had really similar stories”.
Many of the technical details of Weinstein’s alleged abuse are publicly available through court cases (such as an allegation from a former assistant that he made her clean up semen stains on his couch). So Green focused her research on the emotional truth of low-level adjacency – “how alone they felt, the culture of silence at the company, what that was like for them”, she said. “The details about the stains on the couch – that’s all in the press. But what that’s like for a human being to be around is a different kind of question.” Her interviews centered on “the ordinary, not the extraordinary”, she said, with former assistant after former assistant revealing a “commonality of experience”, and disturbing patterns. Those common threads include the usual sexual discrimination – a boys club they weren’t a part of, men promoted quickly as they stay in the same place for years, lunch duty relegated as women’s work – and more sinister stories. “Just feeling so powerless in a situation was the direct common link,” she said.
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A new Mythical Pokémon for Sword and Shield to be revealed in February
It will also star in an upcoming movie
Ahead of Pokémon Day 2020, held on Feb. 27, The Pokémon Company announced a new Mythical Pokémon is coming to Pokémon Sword and Shield. Details on the new Pokémon will be revealed on Feb. 27. The new Pokémon is also expected to star in the upcoming Pokémon animated film, Coco. (Not that Coco.)
The announcement was posted in Japanese on the official website and translated by Pokémon website Serebii. Alongside the reveal, Sword and Shield will also get a “special Max Raid Battle” and a new event in Pokémon Go, Serebii reported. There’s no further information on what to expect from the new Mythical creature.
Three Legendary Pokémon already exist in Sword and Shield: Zacian and Zamazenta, the two dog-like Pokémon, and a mysterious Legendary called Eternatus. A few new Legendary Pokémon are expected with Sword and Shield’s upcoming expansions, too — Cubfu, Urshifu, and Calyrex.
Feb. 27 — Pokémon Day — is the anniversary of Pokémon Red and Green’s Japanese release date. This year, Pokémon Day 2020 is the 24th anniversary of the two games’ debut in Japan. (Pokémon Red and Green was released in the United States on Sept. 28, 1998.) Pokémon Day is recognized by the Japanese Anniversary Association, a non-governmental entity that tracks commemorative holidays in Japan. Eevee’s got one of its own, too.
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The guy who knew Nintendo’s Switch surprise ahead of time has pled guilty to hacking
The man repeatedly hacked Nintendo’s servers
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A California man has pled guilty to hacking Nintendo’s servers to steal confidential files, including taking information about the Nintendo Switch months before it was announced, the US Department of Justice revealed today.
According to the DOJ, Ryan Hernandez, 21, and an associate phished a Nintendo employee in 2016 to get access to and steal confidential information from the company. In October 2017, the FBI contacted Hernandez and his parents to ask him to stop hacking, at which time Hernandez “confirmed that he understood the consequences of any future hacking.”
However, from at least June 2018 to June 2019, Hernandez continued to illegally access confidential corporate information, according to the DOJ, and he broke into “multiple Nintendo servers” to steal more confidential information.
Hernandez apparently boasted about his hacking on Twitter, Discord, and his own chat forum called “Ryan’s Underground Hangout.” On that forum, he chatted with others about Nintendo products, including discussing some of the confidential information he had found from hacking, and shared vulnerabilities in Nintendo’s network, according to the DOJ. The FBI raided Hernandez’s home in June 2019 and found “thousands of confidential Nintendo files.”
Hernandez was also charged with possession of child pornography. The DOJ says Hernandez has already agreed to pay $259,323 in restitution costs to Nintendo as part of a plea agreement. Hernandez’s full sentence will be determined by a judge, which the DOJ says could be up to five years in prison for hacking and up to 20 years in prison for possessing child pornography.
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Demi Lovato talks about coming out to her parents: ‘I was shaking’
Demi Lovato is opening up about her sexuality.
In a new interview on SiriusXM’s Radio Andy, the “Anyone” singer spoke about being sexually fluid, which she came out as in 2018, noting, ““I’m very fluid. I think love is love. You can find it in any gender. I like the freedom of being able to flirt with whoever I want.”
In the radio interview, she recalled telling her parents — mom Dianna De La Garza and stepdad Eddie De La Garza — for the first time. She also spoke about her desire to have children, with a partner or on her own, in the next decade.
“I’m still figuring it out,” Lovato said of her sexuality. “I didn’t officially tell my parents that I saw myself ending up possibly with a woman, too, until 2017,” which is one year after she ended her six-year romance with Wilmer Valderrama.
She said that conversation was “emotional but really beautiful.” She said after she got it out, “I was shaking and crying and I just felt overwhelmed. But I have such incredible parents. They were so supportive. My dad was like: ‘Yeah, obviously,’” and pointed to Lovato’s song “Cool for the Summer,” in which she sang about hooking up with a woman.
Lovato went on to say that her mom was “the one that I was super nervous about, but she was just like, ‘I just want you to be happy. And that was so beautiful and amazing, and like I said — so grateful.”
As far as having children of her own, she said, “I don’t know what my future looks like. I don’t know if I’m going to have kids this year or in 10 years. I don’t know if I’m going to do it with a partner or without. Cause women, we don’t need partners [to raise kids]. Amen.”
Fresh off her stunning Grammy Awards performance, Lovato will be singing the National Anthem at the Super Bowl on Sunday. But she almost didn’t return to music after her near-fatal overdose in 2018, she revealed during the interview.
“I think as time goes on, I’ll be able to give more information or more details,” she said referring to her overdose. But not performing again — or being able to perform again “was a general thought. We didn’t know what was going to happen. We didn’t know how healthy I’d be when I left, it was a scary time in my life for sure.”
Since Lovato left rehab the fall of 2018, she’s had two public romances — with Austin Wilson and Henry Levy. Just prior to rehab, she posted a social media photo touching tongues with her longtime backup dancer Dani Vitale, but quickly deleted them. Fans long speculated about the relationship between the women, who are no longer friends amid fallout over Lovato’s overdose.
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