As reported earlier Jonathon Coachman has been alleged with a sexual harassment case by his former colleague, Adrienne Lawrence.
The unprecedented incidents took place in the year 2015 when The Coach used to work for ESPN as a sports journalist. He was a famous host of the ESPN SportsCenter.
The allegations claimed he alongside another host, John Buccigross tried to involve in romantic angle with Adrienne. Despite knowing that she had a boyfriend, these two tried to get cosy with her. They even sent her inappropriate texts with Buccigross referring her as “dollface,” “#dreamgirl,” and “#longlegs” in text messages sent in 2016 along with unsolicited shirtless photos.
Also, ESPN was accused of taking no actions towards their former hosts. After a lawsuit was filed, the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut, the company broke the silence, finally. They released an official statement on this matter claiming the filings are meritless which will be proven in right time.
Here is the detailed statement,
“We conducted a thorough investigation of the claims Adrienne Lawrence surfaced to ESPN, and they are entirely without merit. Ms Lawrence was hired into a two-year talent development program and was told that her contract would not be renewed at the conclusion of the training program. At that same time, ESPN also told 100 other talent with substantially more experience, that their contracts would not be renewed. The company will vigorously defend its position and we are confident we will prevail in court.”
Jonathon Coachman also opened up in this situation after so many allegations were put against him over the past few days. In a series of tweets on Twitter, the announce team member from WWE Raw clarified he has never done such nasty things in his entire professional career. According to those statements, he is not involved in it, at all even after his name was directly mentioned in this lawsuit.
I will address this only once because I am seething today. In 21 years of being a PROFESSIONAL I have never been more offended in my life. I my 9 years I can count on one hand the amount of times I interacted with anyone other than a co-anchor. To allow someone to spread vicious https://t.co/4NYsZjK2C6
— Jonathan Coachman (@TheCoachrules) March 6, 2018
Lies and flat out fabrications is not ok and it’s time someone stood up for themselves. @jemelehill addressed her lie last night. I am not a part of this lawsuit because I have never done anything wrong. My reputation speaks for itself and anyone that has ever worked with me https://t.co/4NYsZjK2C6
— Jonathan Coachman (@TheCoachrules) March 6, 2018
Will back that up. I am also offended that someone can dangerously throw peoples names into something for the clear attempt at getting headlines. This the only time I will address this because I am not a part of this lawsuit. My heart goes out to anyone falsely accused of https://t.co/4NYsZjK2C6
— Jonathan Coachman (@TheCoachrules) March 6, 2018
Anything. Trust me it doesn’t feel good. But most of you have been incredible and supportive. Onward and upward. https://t.co/4NYsZjK2C6
— Jonathan Coachman (@TheCoachrules) March 6, 2018
The current WWE Raw announce team member rejoined the WWE back in January. A new deal was made between him and the company back in January.
He worked for the WWE in the last decade for a long time before leaving it for ESPN. After leaving this leading media brand, he returned to Monday Night Raw, once again. Hopefully, the allegations will not harm his status, in the company.