It is the one question that no one has really asked Deshaun Watson.
If he truly was just going to these appointments for massage appointments, how did he end up having sexual relations with the massage therapists?
This is something that is a known fact, not speculation.
Watson’s own attorney Rusty Hardin spoke about this the first time he addressed the allegations against Watson.
Deshaun Watson’s lawyer, Rusty Hardin, acknowledged during a Friday news conference that there were some “consensual encounters” between the Houston Texans quarterback and some of the 22 women who have filed lawsuits against him, but he said at no point did Watson engage in any acts that were not “mutually desired.”
“Were there sometimes consensual encounters? Yes,” Hardin said.
When asked to clarify his comments about Watson taking part in sex acts with some of the women who have filed lawsuits against him alleging inappropriate behavior and sexual assault, Hardin replied, “In some of these massages there’s going to be no question. We’ve never run from it.”
Watson has publicly denied any wrongdoing, and Hardin has emphasized since he began representing the quarterback last month that he believes “any allegation that Deshaun forced a woman to commit a sexual act is completely false.”
“I’m not going to go into what it is or the nature or the numbers or with whom,” Hardin said regarding any consensual encounters between Watson and some of the plaintiffs. “But I think you can rightfully assume that. The question always that we have always been emphasizing: Never at any time, under any circumstances … did this young man ever engage in anything that was not mutually desired by the other party.”
Two grand juries have concluded that there wasn’t enough evidence to indict Watson for any inappropriate behavior with the massage therapists.
In his civil suits, though, he will be forced to answer how many massages therapists he had sex or sexual acts with, and this will include therapists who came to his defense, according to USA Today.
Watson is being sued by 22 other women who accused him of sexual misconduct during massage sessions in 2020 and early 2021. As part of the pretrial discovery process in those lawsuits, their attorneys have sought to have Watson answer written “requests for admission” about whether he had sex with the 18 therapists who publicly supported him after the lawsuits against him started in March 2021.
Watson, who recently was traded to the Cleveland Browns, previously refused to answer these questions, saying it was harassing, private and not relevant, according to an objection filed by his attorneys in court.
The plaintiffs’ attorneys countered by saying it will help show Watson’s pattern and motives in seeking massages with dozens of different women, many of whom he met on social media. They asked the court to compel him to answer, leading to a hearing in court Tuesday between the two sides.
Harris County District Court Judge Rabeea Sultan Collier decided in favor of the plaintiffs, overruling the objection by Watson’s attorney, Leah Graham.
This is a blow for Watson in the civil cases.
It looks like the NFL is waiting to see if Watson settles the cases before deciding on what type of punishment they plan to hand down.
For now, it looks like he will be starting for the Browns in week one.
One other thing, when Deshaun Watson was seeing these 40 massage therapists (those are the ones who publicly have come out), he was dating his girlfriend Jilly Anais, so it looks like Watson will be forced to admit every single time he cheated on her.
Cold world.
Flip the pages for the latest on the case and some Jilly thirst traps if you are just here for that.