Shannon Sharpe issues mea culpa after Instagram Live sex actNightcap
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00:00I'm embarrassed, um, someone that is extremely, extremely private, um, and to have one of your
00:07most intimate details, the audio heard for the entire world to hear. Um, I'm embarrassed for
00:14a number of reasons. Um, people count on Shannon, um, Shea Shea Media Club, Shea Shea Nightcap,
00:22um, ESPN. There are a lot of people that count on Shannon to be professional at all times.
00:27And I always try to be professional at all times. Um, even when I'm behind closed doors,
00:32I still try to remain a level of professional, although I'm in the privacy of my own home.
00:39And I'm very disappointed in myself. Um, not for the act. Um, I think there are millions
00:46of billions of people, uh, of consenting age that engage in activities. Um, but, but to have
00:54your most intimate detail on the audio to be heard, I'm disappointed in myself. I let a lot
01:00of people down. Um, my kids, um, I reached out to them. I called them. I called my sister,
01:06uh, my friends, obviously my friends reached out, but God, this was not staged. Um, came in,
01:13I threw my phone on the bed, um, gazed at an activity. I did not know IG live. I've never
01:20been on IG live. I've never turned IG live on. So I don't know how it works. And so, um,
01:27all of a sudden my other phone is going off and people are calling me.
01:31FaceTime that I've never talked to a day in my life on FaceTime. And it didn't, I'm like,
01:35why are y'all calling me FaceTime? And after a while, Jamie, uh, uh, Fritz, who's been my
01:41longtime marketing guy, he finally got through to me. And he said, uh, Shannon, you're on IG live.
01:47I'm like doing what, you know, what about on IG live for, I ain't get no IG live, but he says,
01:53uh, they can hear. I like, I'm like, so now Ocho, you know, I say, ask for patients. He said they
02:00can hear. And now I'm starting to get agitated again, because you call me and say, I'm on IG
02:05live when I know I didn't click myself on IG live. And he said, they can hear me. I said, hear me
02:10doing what say it sounds like you were having sex, man. My heart sank. It dropped.
02:21And obviously, uh, uh, uh, I run, I run my accounts, but Jordan being the good Samaritan,
02:29the good soldier that he is Jordan, the one that cut it off. Cause hell I didn't even know it was
02:34on Jordan, cut it off, Jordan, put the message up. And then after I called my agent, I called
02:39my agents or the agency I called ESPN. I thought I was like, I just got to tell them the truth.
02:46I said, I just got to tell them the truth. My phone wasn't hacked.
02:49Uh, it wasn't an, it wasn't a prank. It was me being a healthy, active male.