It seems pretty clear that most NFL players and team personnel don’t particularly care what Deshaun Watson was doing while he was getting massages from many women who weren’t even licensed. The Browns didn’t care because you wouldn’t hand someone $230 million guaranteed if you did.
His teammates don’t care because they are headed off to the Bahamas with him.
I think the fans are split. Many believe that all 22 women are lying and that the fact that Watson hasn’t been criminally charged proves that. Others find it hard to believe that all 22 women would be telling the same lie.
The women are starting to speak out, and several of them are telling their stories to HBO Real Sports.
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DESHAUN WATSON ACCUSERS: Several women who have accused Deshaun Watson of sexual misconduct sit down for their first ever national TV interview. In the report, they detail the alleged abuse they suffered and share their reactions to Watson’s record-breaking $230 million contract with the Cleveland Browns. Soledad O’Brien reports.
One of the latest pieces of news we have gotten is Watson admitting that one of his massage accusers cried after their session.
Cleveland Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson admitted during a pretrial deposition last week that one of his disputed encounters with a massage therapist ended with the woman crying, followed by an apology sent to her by text message from Watson, according to the woman’s attorney.
This verifies a portion of the women’s claims against him and raises the question of what caused to her cry during their encounter. In his deposition, Watson said he didn’t know, according to the attorney, Tony Buzbee. The woman is suing Watson for civil assault and claims in her lawsuit that Watson purposely touched her with his penis during the massage, causing her to feel scared and cry.
Watson left and sent her a text message apologizing afterward: “Sorry about you feeling uncomfortable,” he wrote, according to a screenshot of it previously posted by her lawyers. “Never were the intentions. Lmk if you want to work in the future. My apologies.”
The deposition last week was taken on behalf of the therapist, Ashley Solis, the first of 22 women who have sued Watson and accused him of similar sexual misconduct during massage sessions from early 2020 to March 2021.
The NFL just spoke to Watson, and it will be really interesting to see what type of punishment they hand down.
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