Steve Phillips’ Former Mistress Breaks Silence About Affair

Posted under Sexual Addiction on Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

Brooke Hundley, whose affair with the former ESPN baseball analyst Steve Phillips rocked the sports world and prompted Phillips to enter rehab for sex addiction, broke her silence and opened up to Kate Snow of ABC’s “Good Morning America.”

Hundley admitted that late-night talk show host Jay Leno’s comments about her appearance pushed her to the “breaking point.” She explained, "I had a friend come stay with me because he was concerned …that mentally I would not be able to take much more.”

In an opening monologue after the sex scandal broke, Leno compared a photo of Hundley to Phillips’ wife, Marni, and asked, "What was he thinking?"

Hundley took responsibility for the anguish she caused Marni Phillips by delivering her a letter detailing the affair with her husband. "I brought it on, but not intentionally," Hundley said. "I simply wanted somebody to get upset enough to have an impact, to get me out of this horrific situation."

Asked if she has a message for her former lover, Hundley said she hoped Phillips "would grow up and take responsibility for his own actions."

Hundley became a punchline after a frantic Marni Phillips made a 911 call in August telling them a "crazy" woman was on her property and gave her a letter.

"I’m the woman he’s been seeing for a while now," she wrote in the letter. "I’m not just some random girl he had sex with in parking lots."

This was followed by revelations that Hundley cyberstalked Phillips’ son via Facebook and asked him questions about his parents’ love life.

A former general manager of the New York Mets whose tenure there was marred by another sex scandal, Phillips admitted to three sexual encounters with Hundley.

He called Hundley "obsessive and delusional," and told cops he feared for the safety of his family.

ESPN fired both of them as the scandal spread.

Hundley declined to go into detail about the affair but insisted she was no stalker and "didn’t harass anyone." "I did things I regret, obviously," she added. "People make mistakes at 22."

Hundley said she was too afraid to tell ESPN’s human resources department that she had sex with one of their top on-air talents.

"I was in a situation where I felt like if I didn’t do what was asked of me, then everything I had worked for, for the past six years, everything I had done to establish myself as a successful media professional, could be gone like that," she said.

Hundley filed for an order of protection against Phillips in August. In it, she claimed he pursued her and threatened her, "stating that if I spoke a word of this to his wife that he would ruin more than just my reputation but could easily get me fired."

Hundley later withdrew the application, and told Snow that she and Phillips have resolved their issues.

She also said she decided to speak out to help other women trapped in disastrous affairs.

"I’ve been called things by the public that no woman should ever be called," she said. "I’ve been called a homewrecker."

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