Robert Klemko of MMQB put together an outstanding report Wednesday detailing some aspects Peyton Manning’s issues with Dr. Jamie Naughright that not many have heard about until now.
It’s not a pretty picture.
Speaking with Manning’s former college roommate, Greg Johnson, Klemko got a first-hand account of the incident in question, where Manning’s rear end was exposed to Naughright.
Johnson supported Manning’s claim, that all he was doing at the time was mooning another player. This isn’t really surprising. It would actually be stunning news if his former roommate came out and said he did more than that.
However, the account does line up with a 1996 affadavit, shared by Klemko, that corroborates Naughright’s actual description of the events before her 2003 defamation suit against Manning.
This is significant.
It wasn’t until later on that she changed her story, yet that was the version used by Shaun King of the New York Daily News that got everyone so riled up about Manning and a supposed huge cover-up to suppress his darker side.
Digging deeper, Klemko tried to get statements from three of Naughright’s lawyers, but each said they couldn’t comment other than to say they no longer represent her. He did, however, manage to detail a disturbing trend in her behavior.
In addition to the 2003 lawsuit against Manning, Naughright filed two suits in 2010, one of which was dismissed and another that was settled out of court by one of Naughright’s former friends, Gretchen Anglero, who owned a deli store and who had offered advice to Naughright when she opened a yoga business.
“This is what she does,” said Anglero, who closed the business in 2012 for unrelated reasons. “She sues people to make money.”
Klemko also was privy to a phone message that was made by a woman who called herself Naughright in which she threatened to “release all these documents,” just a week before the Super Bowl.
Other sources also confirmed to Klemko that a woman claiming to be Naughright, dating even back years before, used course and vulgar language trying to get people to cover the incident with Manning in the training room.
Additionally, another news source confirmed that a woman claiming to be Naughright threatened to “release all the documents,” but when pressed to provide them would “change the topic of conversation.”
In the end, the 2003 version of the Manning incident was told by the New York Daily News. There may or may not be a connection to this story and that one. We’ll never know. But there was much more to the overall story, which certainly changes the narrative.