11:50am: The NFL will monitor this lawsuit, according to spokesman Brian McCarthy (via Cabot). While McCarthy indicated Watson’s status is unchanged as of now, the prospect of additional punishment under the league’s personal conduct policy could be on the table.
8:58am: Deshaun Watson is facing another civil lawsuit from a woman alleging sexual misconduct during a massage therapy session. The woman accuses the then-Texans quarterback of pressuring her into oral sex during a December 2020 appointment, Claire Geary and Camryn Justice of News5Cleveland.com report.
This marks a 26th lawsuit filed against the Browns QB, who is midway through an 11-game suspension that came as a result of the dozens of lawsuits that emerged between March 2021 and June 2022. Watson, 27, entered the week with one outstanding lawsuit, which will be addressed — barring a settlement — in 2023. This latest matter may come up at that point as well.
The unnamed accuser, who is represented by attorney Anissah Nguyen, alleges Watson contacted her via Instagram and arranged an appointment at a Houstonian hotel room. Following a session in which the accuser claims Watson attempted to have sex with her and, per the lawsuit, pressured her into oral sex, he paid her $300 — more than double her usual massage rate — according to News5Cleveland. The accuser filed the lawsuit in Harris County (Texas).
Nguyen seeks to depose Watson this year, Mary Kay Cabot of cleveland.com reports. Given the agreement Watson’s counsel and Tony Buzbee — the attorney for the other civil accusers — reached regarding Watson being deposed in-season, it would not surprise if a similar understanding pushed a Watson deposition in this case to 2023 as well.
Two grand juries, the first in Harris County, did not proceed with criminal charges against Watson last year, leading to the trade sweepstakes taking off. Jointly appointed disciplinary officer Sue Robinson subsequently ruled Watson committed nonviolent sexual assault, which led to the NFL appealing and pushing for a full-season suspension. An NFL-NFLPA settlement in August produced Watson’s 11-game suspension. Because this new civil suit alleges similar behavior and is from the timeframe as the others, Watson’s suspension is not expected to be impacted, Cabot and Dan Labbe of cleveland.com note.
The most recent Watson accuser’s suit states she is seeking “minimal compensatory damages” but indicates she has “suffered severe depression and anxiety” as a result of her encounter with Watson. As other suits against Watson alleged, this one accuses him of continually pressuring the accuser to “massage his private area.” While Watson settled with 23 accusers, the Texans settled with 30 women who alleged the former Houston starter committed sexual misconduct and/or sexual assault during massage therapy sessions. A June report indicated Watson saw at least 66 masseuses from fall 2019 to spring 2021. That report indicated Watson arranged for massage sessions at the Houstonian.
Watson, who has denied any wrongdoing amid this high volume of accusations, returned to the Browns’ facility this week. While his tone shifted from contrition back to defiance following the settlement, the recently traded passer is undergoing mandatory counseling during his suspension. Successfully navigating the treatment program will lead to Watson returning to Browns practice Nov. 14 and debuting for his new team in Week 13 in Houston.
Browns ownership and fan base will cheer their boy getting another one. NFL doesn’t care. Just a pathetic situation. Disgusting pos
Really. He’s disgusting because he paid for sex? I would say it’s more disgusting to be married and be begging for it
Disgusting because he’s a confirmed sexual predator idiot. When you have an adult relationship with some then you can chime in again.
You’re a keyboard cowboy with no brain. We all know who you are. You still live at home but you moved “out” to the basement. Get a life loser.
I do have a question regarding basements because I don’t think anybody in my city has a basement and I’ve never met anybody that has a basement but yet everybody on the Internet seems to live in a basement what’s up with that
Stop lying about it. We all know you live in a basement and that basement most likely belongs to your mother.
Two different theories…
1) The liberals stole all of the basements because they hate you. More than anyone else on the planet.
2) Trailer parks and outhouses don’t have basements.
@George: Because it’s a lot easier to accuse you of living in a basement than for them to actually come up with a logical response. Notice that none of these responses have anything of substance in them. That’s way too hard, especially when reality does not fit their narrative. I’d say your actual place of residence is in their head . . . rent free . . . or however that stupid internet response goes.
Most people don’t need “why sexual assault is bad” spelled out for them, Pops.
What “narrative” does that reality not fit?
Pervbacker has another nickname for this site. I wonder how weird is it to have multiple computers open and be responding you yourself? It is pretty easy to call you out pervbacker only 2 people have backed your perv god. The other guy shut up after he saw the light that everyone was against him.
We don’t know for sure if Watson has done anything wrong. Besides, his passer rating is over 100.
Agreed.What a joke of a franchise Cleveland is.
Would be beautiful if this disgrace of a signing backfires on them.
They sure deserve it.
And without brownsbacker here to defend him anymore. That’s a shame.
I told Brownsbacker9 and the rest of the Cleveland fans there would be more issues with Watson.
always hard to tell but pretty sure Brownsbacker9 is Deerhunter
Haha. Good one. If you do a little research you will see that brownsbacker is No Politics. I was actually trying to find an older article a few months back and ran across it. He claims brownsbacker stole his name. Either way, if you read No Politics posts, he acts just like brownsbacker. He never lets an argument go. I think he’s bashing Watson now because a few people on here are on to him. He apparently has you fooled
Of that I am certain, and I am pretty sure he’s using a few other burner handles as well.
If it weren’t for the women involved, then trade and signing could be a nation lampoon movie.
At least Vick served 2 years.
Agreed, Vick did his time, i had no problem with him coming back and playing. Watson on the otherhand, should be banned and placed on the sexual predator list. NFL severly lacks morals allowing this guy to continue to play. Shame on them.
Vick’s crime was different than Watson. It doesn’t make it better though. I think Watson should have been suspended longer than 11 games. The penalty was light for what he had done
Murdering dogs in a gambling ring or solicitation for prostitution, which is worse? Each of us will have to decide.
Garbage human being
I’ve been against Watson this whole time but I think this one he shouldn’t get too much blame. Yes he initiated it but she agreed and took his money and went along with it. She didn’t run away, call the cops, etc. she took the extra $185 (think espn said her normal rate is $115 for an hour). How can you take the money go along with it then complain and try to sue him? This women is a prostitute which by definition is “a person, in particular a woman, who engages in sexual activity for payment.” (Taken from google). Again Watson is a pos and shouldn’t be allowed to ever play in the NFL again but this women has no case
The difference here is she would have had to negotiate the transaction of sex for pay before the sex act. In this case, he gave her the extra cash, after the fact from what I’ve read.
That being said….. I hope he burns. Guessing there will be other woman who come forward with accusations against him as well. And… I am gonna guess that some are true and some are not.
Again he’s a pos there’s no denying that. Just she got money she went along with it. I know plenty of people who have hit on women in a sexual manner and got turned down. The fact that she went along with it says to me she shouldn’t be able to sue. Maybe we’re missing some details but from what we know that’s where I stand at least.
I agree there will probably be some women just crying wolf. Look at the Tyler (yes I know his name is Trevor) Bauer case that women was texting her friend stuff like “oh I’m bout to get the money”. That screams lies but than again we live a very strange society today so you never know
There you go defending Watson again by victim blaming. Way to go Brownsbacker.
You calling my wife a hooker? I paid her some money to do a certain thing she didn’t do it but stole my money anyway. I won’t go into detail but unlike perv we were married and it was consensual. Lol
As your wife that’s between you two so no I wasn’t
Btw how about your mariners? Fun series but like I told you 14 games is just a small sample and means nothing
Pressuring her? At what point does someone have responsibility for their own actions? It’s one thing to force but pressure? What does that even mean? I know he’s a POS but there are clear lines when it comes to sexual interaction. What line was crossed? I’d prefer to know more details before making a judgement. Pressure? Like did he beg her? Did he flash a few Hundos? Doesn’t sound like for forced her.
(This is taken from the article on espn’s front page)
In the lawsuit filed Thursday in Harris County (Texas), Watson is accused of soliciting the plaintiff over Instagram with a direct message for a massage at a Houstonian hotel room in Texas in December 2020, while he was a member of the Texans. The lawsuit states that during the session, Watson “continually pressured [the plaintiff] into massaging his private area” before he “removed his towel” and “offered to let her ‘get on top.'” According to the lawsuit, the plaintiff “refused to have sex with Watson, however, he was able to pressure her into oral sex” and “Watson paid [the plaintiff] $300 for her services, although her normal charge was $115 for an hour massage.”
If he barred her from leaving and she was afraid of him that should be enough. Not sure of any of it. Maybe her lawyer is holding it back until the deposition who knows. It is too bad women see a situation like this and think of a pat day rather than how hard it is to convict this jerk and many like him.
Pervbacker I have a job for you. Go stand outside of the Brownies practice field with a sign. You can tell the perv you have hired a bunch of masseuse to cater to him. They can be forced into offer it and he can pretend to be forced. Anything goes except no rough stuff any bruises and we are done unless of course she is interested in that.
Man you could get street cred. All your friends that belong to your Locomotive fan club can hire them when it isn’t their turn to work for perv. Think of the good you would be doing keep ones perv desires under control and helping all those guys in the overalls with white and blue stripes with a matching stupid looking hat get something they can’t otherwise. I am sure you would dip into the cookie jar we all have needs.
Not sure the NFL will add anything to his suspension since this happened around when the rest of his misconduct happened. That said it looks incredibly bad optics wise to have more cases come up.
It literally says in the article that it isn’t expected to affect his suspension
Right, they can start up a whole new suspension with this new lawsuit.
Nope. The NFL specifically set the suspensions up in a way that does not include any further accusations/issues. They can still go after him
They need to press criminal charges too. I want to see him get a real punishment if he committed even one of these
But defund the police correct
Well gosh, it’s almost like it’s possible to want safeguards and accountability against wrongdoers in society without wanting police forces to have a ludicrous excess of budget, power, impunity, and gear.
“Defund” the police is a propaganda narrative devised by the ballwashing Blue Lives Matter crowd.
It’s not about “defunding” police, which would imply abolishing the police. It’s just about decreasing their massive, bloated budgets and holding police accountable for their actions by the removal of qualified immunity (every time an officer is involved in a civil suit, the city pays the amount, ie, you pay for their screwups via your taxes).
This should be a no-brainer idea that everyone can embrace: corral out-of-control spending and hold police accountable. Instead, people bleat about “defunding” and the point gets lost.
It’s not about defunding the police! It’s about taking money away from police budgets and stuff! That’s not defunding!
Lmao. Sure man.
Anyways.
Police accountability is a good thing. So is holding teachers accountable for political activism instead of teaching fundamental skills like reading and math. So is holding politicians accountable for senselessly spending tax payer money and making your lives more difficult with insane fiscal policies resulting in you paying more for groceries gas and such. Oh and holding ppl accountable that ruined ppls lives and kids lives all over a shot the company recently admitted to not even trying to test for prevention, despite “experts” such as cdc director promising such outcomes.
There should be a lot of accountability. Somehow only police are the only group ppl care about. Which is why nobody takes the defund the police ppl seriously. Cause you’re not really about accountability.
Minnesota defunded the police after floyd. Crime skyrocketed and they refunded the police a year later. Remember. Defund the police means you as a regular individual unable to afford living in gated communities with private security suffer. Not the policy makers convincing you this is a good idea while they steal the money for themselves.
You’re like a jukebox of FoxNews BS.
That executive is offering nonsense and their talking points shave been debunked.
Skyrocketing crime is largely made up, especially if you compare it across eras.
Inflation is a problem internationally–it’s not a US specific problem.
The teacher political activism thing is nonsense. Books are being banned and lessons are being decried as CRT if they even acknowledge slavery or structural racism in America’s history.
And police get the most scrutiny about accountability, because they take the biggest slice of municipal budgets and they get away with extrajudicial killings. That’s a lot different than accountability for other professions.
Inflation started in this country for two reasons:
1) Joe Biden stopped us from being able to be energy independent and an exporter of fuel, which in turn made us reliant on foreign oil.
2) His economic policy of printing tons of money with nothing to back it up and then stuffing it into the economy which then devalued the dollar, making things cost more…instant inflation.
Fuel is what makes the world go ’round. When supply is made scarce and demand remains the same or goes up, the cost of one of the most basic resources goes up, and thus all products and goods cost more due to this.
Please don’t comment on inflation or the economy. You clearly don’t know what you’re talking about.
I know more than Biden and the head of the Fed does, and clearly more than you do.
Just think of the boon to this economy and America it would be if we were putting fuel on the market right now. We wouldn’t have to be begging Russia, the Saudis, and Venezuela for oil….all of which told Biden to go take a hike.
This is the other problem with green energy that Democrats don’t want to talk about. It isn’t portable. You can’t sell it to other countries.
The fact that you blame inflation squarely on Biden rather than on 15 years of Fed policy injecting liquidity into the markets (not to mention unlimited printing and zero interest rates when Covid hit) proves that you, in fact, know jack s.
Inflation skyrocketed right after Biden enacted his plans. Gas prices in the US took off as soon as Biden repealed everything Trump did for oil production and sourcing. That is an undeniable fact and you can’t explain that away. You can’t blame it on Putin, because this happened a year and a half before Putin started acting up with Ukraine…which is also Biden’s fault for being a weak leader.
Ilhan Omar directly called for the abolishment of the police. It is a direct quote from her and you can look it up yourself. It was an infamously popular Democrat platform to defund the police that was done in support of the BLM fraud. Once that move backfired in the cities that did defund the police with out of control crime, they changed their tune. Police officers in some places decided not to work for people in positions of power that supported a defund the police position. In one city, an entire police force quit when a new city council member took office because of her negative comments and defunding the police policy and they openly stated this was the reason for their decision.
Why my original post about this disappeared is a mystery to me. It is not hateful or racist and doesn’t violate any TOS. It is the absolute truth and anyone who wants to challenge it can look it up themselves.
Watson is a perv but couldn’t this woman have just walked out?
I do not support Watson and as a former Browns fan have completely abandoned them for my life long closet team (MIN) for more reasons than just this debacle; Honestly though if you can’t say no and stand up for yourself it is also partially on you for the decisions you made. No one is discussing this and the fact that a massage therapist who makes modest money likely went along with things for extra cash and being a celebrity I’m sure helped. Granted Watson should be a better person but many involved here simply weren’t. Fuc* him and that embarrassing franchise.
He probably invited her over to his house afterwards to watch the movie Black snake moan lol
This won’t be the last one. I’m doubting he’ll play a snap this year. We all know there are more out there. It will only take 1 accuser that says he did something to her after Jan 1, 2021. If this happens he’s done.
Hmmm…it’s almost like this was entirely predictable.
Say what you will about Watson, he’s smart enough to sexual assault women in Texas, where they really don’t care at all.
Watson hasn’t addressed his deep psychological issues, much less his sexual addiction to voyerism and young masseurs. Obviously a sexual predator, Watson issues are not only a threat to himself but more importantly women everywhere. Goodell needs to step up.
There is no way defending him here but what is being pressured to give bj? looking at a pointed gun or a wad of $100.00 bills?
Hey wait a second. As a long time Bears fan I’ve “suffered severe depression and anxiety”. Does that mean I qualify for “minimal compensatory damages”?
as an angels fan i deserve a cut from the potential sale of the team!
I don’t understand how he’s a pos when someone else accepted the 300 dollars. Should be both ways.
When will we as a society start demanding women (who are equal) start taking responsibilities for the decisions they made? Why is it that regret can become assault, why is the blame always male anyway?
I know if I were to put that question before my wife her comeback would be “why can’t men grasp the concept of leaving the toilet seat down”?
Exactly, again Watson should be a better person but..