Country Singer Mindy McCready Admits to Decade-Long Affair with Roger Clemens; Relationship Started when She was 15

Revelations Might Derail Pitcher's Defamation Suit Against Former Trainer Brian McNamee

The problems keep piling up for Roger Clemens, who currently is under investigation by the FBI for having committed perjury before a House Subcommittee investigating the use of illegal performance enhancing substances by professional baseball players. Troubled country singer Mindy McCready tearfully admitted to having had a relationship with baseball legend Roger Clemens, who first met her when she was 15 years old and he was the 28-year-old married father of two. The New York Daily News, which is spearheading an investigation into the use of illegal drugs by pro athletes, reported that Clemens met the 15-year-old McCready while she was sining karaoke at a bar. The meeting and subsequent relationship was confirmed McCready's mother, Gaye Inge, tough she said, "They were friends."

When contacted by the Boston Herald, Inge said that she had queried her young daughter about the nature of her relationship with the pitcher.

"Obviously it's a question I had to ask. A mother wants to know what's going on," Inge said. "As a mother, I was told nothing."

Inge eventually came to believe that the relationship was platonic, after her daughter brought Clemens to the family home in Fort Myers, Florida for breakfast "a couple of years ago."

Roger Clemens first set his eyes on Mindy McCready when the 15-year-old was singing karaoke at a bar called the Hired Hand in Fort Meyers, where the Boston Red Sox -- the team Clemens broke in with and won the first of his record seven Cy Young Awards for -- had their spring training compound. Clemens took the underage McCready to his hotel room that very night, although sources close to Clemens say the sexual part of their relationship wasn't consummated until much later, when the singer came of age. However, there is the possibility that the pitcher might have engaged in underage sex with the then teenage girl, though sources close to the pitcher deny it.