No Longer a Girl, Yet Not Quite a Woman

It's one thing to be fifteen years old and have a barely suggestive photo taken while your parents are standing ten feet away, it's quite another to be fifteen years old and actually take off your clothes. To have sex. With a married man.

Yankees pitcher Roger Clemens revealed yesterday that he'd had a ten-year-long "relationship" with country singer Mindy McCready (above, at age 23) that started when McCready was fifteen. Clemens was a married 28-year-old father of two at the time, and claims that his wife was aware of the relationship, i.e., there was nothing sexual about it. Uh, at least until she turned eighteen.

Clemens first saw McCready singing in a bar in Florida. At age fifteen?! No doubt one of her parents was standing ten feet away when she went back to his hotel room with him.

McCready's had her fair share of trouble, including getting popped for trying to fake a prescription for Oxycontin, but she's trying to revive her career and stay clean these days at the ripe old age of 32. Naturally, all this notoriety is actually going to help -- there's no such thing as bad publicity, right?

The bigger point, however, is that this guy in his twenties, a famous baseball pitcher, was flying a fifteen-year-old girl around in his private jet. For that to happen, a whole BUNCH of people had to think that was okay, from Clemens and McCready on down to her parents and his wife and everyone who helped her get on the plane.

And even if, as she says, the sexual part of the relationship didn't begin until after she broke up with actor Dean Cain and moved to Nashville to start recording her first album, well, gosh, don't they both deserve a pat on the back for waiting until she'd come of age.

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Comments

[Kim in MT]

Forget underage sex with Roger Clemens... who let her wear that horrible "I Dream of Genie" discard?!

[b]

That's it, I'm sending my daughters to live in a convent. JUST ACK.

[Miz Jawnson]

Dear Roger Clemens,
Just admit you used performance enhancing drugs. Don't drag others through the mud in an attempt to get the focus off your drug-addled ass. And the fact that your target is kicking a dog when it's down? Pathetic.

[BaltimoreGal]

Yeah, this is the worst-case scenario, I'm afraid.

[Miri]

First thought about picture before reading the post:
What the hell is Helen Hunt wearing?!?

[mouthybroad]

WTF? Yea, lot of great parenting all over the place.

Also--I love the clip of Clemens testifying before Congress and they ask if he has ever been a vegan. His response, "I don't even know what that is."

Did he even pass the 8th grade? Is he even literate?