Several weeks ago, Josh Duhamel may or may not have had sex with a stripper named Nicole Forrester. Josh was (and is still is) filming a movie in Georgia, and the story the Enquirer told was that Josh and a buddy went to a strip club, paid the $10 for a lap dance from Forrester (plus a $10 tip), and then Josh and Nicole had sex in his hotel the next night. The Enquirer later confirmed that they got the story lead from a tip from someone working on the Georgia film set – apparently, Josh may have been bragging about his conquest. The Enquirer tracked down Nicole, and after some negotiations, she walked away with $20,000 for her epic tale of pr0n-filled seduction.

Since then, Forrester has been all over the place, giving interviews. I may be totally ridiculous, but I don’t fault her for giving many of these interviews – she’s likely getting paid for most of them, and God knows she can’t be giving $10 lap dances for the rest of her life. I think of these interviews as her retirement fund. Her latest interview is with Extra, and Nicole actually has the nerve to “apologize” to Fergie:

Dear Fergie: the Atlanta stripper who insists that she had a torrid October tryst with your husband would like to apologize.

Nicole Forrester, the exotic dancer at the center of the Josh Duhamel adultery brouhaha, is extending an olive branch to the pop star wife of the actor she supposedly had sex with. “I’m sorry,” the 34 year-old tells Extra.

At the time of the one-night stand, she explains “I thought, ‘Nobody’s gonna find out. It’s not gonna hurt anybody . . . I’m sorry that I didn’t think of it like I think of it now.”

Things have been tough for Forrester since the news broke. Her son even told her “‘you’re disgusting. I didn’t know you had sex with him,’” she claims. She says that she has quit stripping for good after her kids requested she “never do it again.”

One thing she won’t apologize for: speaking out. The affair is “the truth,” she insists. “Too bad [Josh] can’t just admit it.”

The 37 year-old actor still texts her, she says. One message from Duhamel said “Wow, you are scared?” Forrester says. “I kept telling him I don’t want any part of this.”

The dancer also resents being called a homewrecker, given Fergie’s apparent devotion to her husband.

“She’s standing by her man, so obviously I’m not wrecking the home too bad, huh?”

One other thing: her night with the married movie star wasn’t the best sex she’s ever had. “No, I don’t think that was it,” she sniffs.

[From Us Weekly]

Oh, snap. Josh wasn’t the best in bed, you say? So much for Fergie’s brag that Josh is a well-endowed man, et cetera. Forrester also claimed that Josh keeps texting her with messages like “Wow, you are scared?” – which I don’t get… or believe. Nicole claims that she texts back to Josh: “I don’t want any part of this.” Er… whatever. Now I’m starting to not believe this chick. Forrester also says that her son is ashamed of her: “My son, he went to a football game last Saturday and he was like, mom, ‘you’re disgusting. I didn’t know you had sex with him.’” Ugh. Let this kid spend some time with Pamela Anderson’s hellion sons, then we’ll talk.

In one more piece of news involving this whole scandal, Molly Sims gave an interview defending her former costar Josh. Molly says Forrester’s claims are “absolutely not true… I’ve worked with him for five years. You know, listen. Don’t believe everything you read. Look at what’s going on in so many other reality-based things in the world right now. Someone’s trying to make a lot of money.” Molly, mind your business. I like you and everything, but don’t chime in about a situation you aren’t involved in.

Here’s Fergie at a party in Paris on November 10, 2009. She was hanging out with Dita Von Teese and fellow Black Eyed Peas Will.i.am and apl.de.ap. Fame notes that Dita and Fergie “sipped wine and champagne as they got quite cozy on the dance floor at the VIP Room. Fergie has been open about her sexual forays with women in the past, but admitted to putting the kibosh on those experiences once she got into an exclusive relationship. However, could the songstress be singing a different tune now that news has broke of her husband’s infidelity?”. Josh Duhamel is seen helping his sister in Brentwood, California back on June 23, 2009.

The Atlanta stripper who claims to have had a one night stand with Josh Duhamel told her story on a local radio station yesterday. The woman in question, Nicole Forrester, first sold her tale to the National Enquirer last week for a reported $20,000, although she says that money has yet to come through. She claims to have had a porn-filled hotel night with Duhamel after he came to her place of work, the ironically named “Tattletales.” Forrester isn’t backing down from her story, and is currently featured on the covers of People and US Weekly.

After watching the video of the woman’s interview, available on E! Online and below, I have to say that I believe her story. She’s not the brightest bulb, but it really sounds like she’s telling the truth. She says that Duhamel came in while she was working and that she had no idea who he was, but “knew he was really freakin’ hot. He was so hot.” A waitress at the club told her it was Josh Duhamel from Transformers and that he was married to Fergie. That doesn’t seem to have stopped her from hooking up with him or from letting him drive drunk with her to his hotel.

Forrester, a single mom, claims that the National Enquirer approached her first about the story and that she didn’t want to talk to them because of her kids. “I didn’t want my kids to find out I was a stripper. [They're] 13 and 10 and it would kind of mess up their school and just stuff like that.”

The Enquirer called her three times and said “we’re going to print the story anyway, they’re going to know you’re a stripper, so why don’t you make money off of it?” At that point she decided to come forward. E! Online has more from the interview:

Josh Duhamel seemingly put a stop to this, but it appears that Nicole Forrester is just getting started.

“We did hook up, we had lots of sex, and we had a really, really good time,” the stripper and mother of two said in an exclusive interview with The Bert Show on Atlanta’s Q100-FM.

“And then the next morning, when I left, you know, he kissed me on the cheek, really sweet guy.”

And a really married guy, too, of course.

Duhamel’s rep has vehemently denied Forrester’s story about having a one-night stand with the Transformers hottie. Mrs. Duhamel, aka Fergie, was with her hubby last night in Atlanta, where he’s filming Life As We Know It.

But Forrester says she has saved text messages and “a lot of evidence” that she had a tryst with the actor.

She denies feeding the story to the National Enquirer herself, saying that the tabloid came to her, offering her $500 just to come in and talk, after an anonymous tipster reported that Duhamel was bragging on the set that he had “banged a hot, blonde stripper at Tattletales.”

Forrester insists that she is not in this for the money or the 15 minutes of fame. She just wants to clear her name and not be branded a liar.

Yet she did, in fact, take money from the Enquirer—$500 for the initial sit-down and $1,500 to pass a polygraph test. (She says she was supposed to get $20,000 for spilling all the details to the mag, but that transaction was never completed.)

“I would actually pay money to make this go away. If I had it, I would do it, you know? But I don’t,” she shrugged. “Nothing I can change now…If it was going to get out there, I figured I might as well benefit from it. I think most people would.”

And she says she doesn’t fear Duhamel, Fergie or their legal team.

“No, because it’s the truth. I’m not lying about anything, and he’s just as guilty as I am.”

Sounds like a classic case of he-said, she-said, everybody-cringes.

[From E! Online]

As Kaiser said when she first covered this story, I believe this. The woman seemed genuine to me in the interview. Fergie is standing by her man, though, and the two made a very public show of solidarity on Tuesday night at a restaurant in Atlanta. Reports claim that Josh is in the doghouse, but it sure didn’t look like it as the two noshed on steak and lobster and were “snuggling up.” Do you think that Fergie knows what’s going on and either doesn’t care or has made peace with it?

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Fergie is shown at an event in Las Vegas on 10/23/09. Credit: WENN.com