Former ESPN analyst Steve Phillips’ mistress – a 22 year-old production assistant who stalked his family and posed as a teenager in order to get information from his son on Facebook, was on Good Morning America this morning. Brooke Hundley claims that she’s been attacked by the press and irreparably hurt, particularly by Jay Leno pointing out that Phillips’ wife is hot and she’s not. (I’m not sure how to embed the video, but you can watch it here on CBS.com.)

In case you’re unfamiliar with this story, Hundley repeatedly tried to contact Phillips’ wife to tell her the details of the affair once Phillips broke up with her. Phillips admits to the affair, but claims he only slept with Hundley three times. Hundley befriended Phillips’ teen son on Facebook claiming to be a classmate and grilled him about his parents’ relationship. She repeatedly called his wife trying to get her to talk. When the wife disconnected the phone, Hundley drove to Phillips’ home in Wilton, CT to leave a psycho note about how much she meant to this married guy who had already dumped her. Key passages in the note include “I’m a real person in his life and… care deeply about his happiness,” and “I’m not just some random girl he had sex with in parking lots.” His wife pulled into the driveway as Hundley was leaving the note, and called the police and tried to use her truck to block Hundley’s car from leaving. Hundley drove over the yard and hit a stone column in her haste to escape. Phillips later got a restraining order against Hundley.

In the interview, Hundley has a real “poor me” attitude about a situation in which she more than deserved the public backlash against her atrocious behavior. Yes, Phillips shouldn’t have cheated, but she went crazy and went after his family. It really looks like she’s fake crying at first when she talks about the press making fun of her looks, and she says she had to ask a friend to stay with her because “mentally, I would not be able to take much more.”

Hundley claims that Phillips threatened her career if she went forward with claims against him, and she kind of half-said she tried to talk to someone at work about it and gave up. After the story came out, she got canned by ESPN. They issued a statement read on ABC that “Our investigation determined that Hundley’s characterization of the events was inconsistent.”

You know who this chick reminds me of? Kate Major, that ex Star reporter who went crying to just about every outlet that Jon Gosselin dumped her ass after promising her the moon and the stars. Except this girl went after her married ex’s family and that is wrong on so many levels. He’s just as culpable as she is for the affair, but she hurt his wife and kids and there’s no excuse for that.

Hundley barely apologized for the stunts she pulled and showed how narcissistic and unhinged she is. She said “I obviously feel pain for anybody else that I may have brought into this situation,” and then she added “but I did things and I thought about things just as an avenue just to get people to pay attention.”

When the interviewer told Hundley that her letter was scary to Phillips’ wife, she turned it around again into an “I’m the victim” thing and said “it’s the same fear that I felt for months before.” Give me a break.

As for what she would say to Marni Phillips, the wife of the guy stupid enough to sleep with her, she said “the same fear that I heard in her voice [in the 911 call when she was at her house] was similar fear to how I have felt, and I would never want anybody else to… go through what I was going through.”

Again she repeated the crap about wanting someone to pay attention to her. “I brought it on [the negative press attention] but not intentionally. I simply wanted somebody to get upset enough to have an impact to get me out of this horrific situation.”

What did Glen Close say in Fatal Attraction – “I will not be ignored,” right? This girl is insane. It doesn’t matter to her who she hurts as long as someone pays attention to her.

Good Morning America reminds us at the end of this segment that Steve Phillips has been fired from ESPN, he’s now in rehab for sex addiction and that his wife has filed for divorce. This isn’t the first time he’s cheated with a woman at work. In the late 90s he was sued for sexual harassment by a female coworker he had an affair with.

ESPN baseball analyst and former Mets general manager Steve Phillips, 46, earned headlines last week when it came out that his wife was divorcing him after a scandal in which a 22 year-old girl he’d had an affair with harassed his family. The young woman, a production assistant at ESPN, befriended one of Phillips’ teen sons on Facebook, called his wife several times, and left a letter for his wife at his family home. The letter claimed a more serious relationship with Phillips than he said existed, although Philips admitted to sleeping with the girl three times.

ESPN suspended Phillips from his job as a result of the scandal. Phillips has a history of cheating with women at work and was sued for sexual harassment years ago for an affair with a woman who worked for the Mets. Now ESPN has fired Phillips and issued a statement that vaguely references his bad behavior:

Steve Phillips, the ex-New York Mets GM, is now an ex-ESPN analyst, as well: 46-year-old broadcaster Monday was fired by the sports juggernaut after becoming embroiled in a Fatal Attraction-esque scandal with Brooke Hundley, a 22-year-old ESPN production assistant.

“Steve Phillips is no longer working for ESPN,” network spokesman Josh Krulewitz said in a statement. “His ability to be an effective representative for ESPN has been significantly and irreparably damaged, and it became evident it was time to part ways.”

Phillips admittedly made love to Hundley three times this past summer before ending the affair. Hundley then, according to police reports, harassed Phillips’ wife Marni over the phone; attempted to make contact with Phillips’ 16-year-old son on Facebook; and did damage to his Wilton, Connecticut home. She left a handwritten letter on the premises for his wife, validating her trysts with the ex-Mets G.M. by describing a “big birthmark on his crotch… and one on his left inner thigh.”

Marni Phillips, the mother of Phillips’ four sons, has filed papers for divorce.

[From Radar Online]

The only sad thing about this story is the fact that Phillips’ wife won’t be getting the huge amount of alimony she deserves for putting up with his serial cheating. This guy won’t get another job for a while and it will probably pay significantly less than his last gig. They may have to sell their home at a loss and it will be his ex wife and kids that have to pay the most for a dad who couldn’t keep it in his pants. Meanwhile ESPN reports that Phillips has entered a “treatment facility.” He probably hopes to get his job back after he emerges a “changed man.”

Update: The woman involved, Brooke Hundley, no longer works at ESPN, according to their spokesperson. It’s unclear whether she quit or was fired.

Header image is a screenshot from a video on Baseballfactory.us. Image below of the crazy woman Phillips was cheating with is via the NY Post.

The NY Post has a disturbing and morbidly fascinating account of ESPN’s baseball analyst Steve Phillips’ affair with a 22 year-old production assistant, Brooke Hundley. When Phillips, 46, broke off the relationship after sleeping with Hundley three times this summer she launched a campaign against him, communicating with one of his teenage sons through an alias on Facebook and contacting his wife several times. Phillips has admitted to the affair but claims that Hundley used personal family information she learned from his son to overstate the seriousness of the relationship to his wife.

It all culminated in a scary scene in which Hundley drove to Phillips’ home in Wilton, Connecticut to leave a letter for his wife. When his wife pulled in the driveway and saw Hundley’s car, she tried to block her in by parking her truck across the driveway. Hundley then drove over the lawn, running into a stone column with her car but managing to escape before the police got there.

Phillip’s wife Marni, 40, has since filed for divorce. The couple has four sons, the youngest of which is seven. Phillips is currently on a leave of absence from his job at ESPN. This is not the first time he’s been caught cheating with a woman at work, and he had to take a leave of absence as the general manager of the Mets in the late 90s after admitting a relationship with an employee who later sued him for sexual harassment.

Here’s some of the NY Post’s story. They also have PDF files of the letter that Hundley sent to Phillips’ wife, along with declarations from Phillips, his wife and his son. If you have some time to kill they’re pretty interesting reads, particularly the batsh*t crazy letter from Hundley. I sense a made for TV movie in this family’s future:

ESPN analyst Steve Phillips had a fling with a 22-year-old production assistant, who, after being dumped, taunted his wife with “Fatal Attraction”-like phone calls and a letter that bragged about her sexcapades with Phillips while taking pot shots at their “loveless marriage,” The Post has learned.

The former Met general manager, whose tenure with the team was rocked by admissions of infidelity, confessed to his wife and local cops that he had slept with ESPN assistant Brooke Hundley several times this past summer before dumping her.

In retaliation, the jilted young woman repeatedly phoned Phillips’ wife, Marni, saying, “We both can’t have him!” an explosive police report claims.
Hundley’s desperate actions — including accidentally smashing her car into a stone column while speeding away from the Phillips’ home after leaving the letter — terrified the family, according to the Wilton, Conn., police report.

“I have extreme concerns about the health and safety of my kids and myself,” Steve Phillips said in a police statement, adding that the woman became “obsessive and delusional” after he dumped her.

But Phillips, 46, declined to pursue criminal charges against Hundley, a Bristol, Conn., woman who cops learned may have used an ESPN computer to contact Phillips’ 16-year-old son on Facebook while posing as a high-school classmate.

Phillips — who admitted having multiple affairs with women while working for the Mets — is now being sued for divorce by his 40-year-old wife, the mother of his four sons. Two months ago, Phillips deeded the family’s five-bedroom, multimillion-dollar Wilton home to her.

[From The NY Post]

The Post has photos of the stalking woman in question, and to put it bluntly she’s not cute. In some pictures she’s heavier and is dressed in sporty clothes with no makeup. In other photos she’s thin and plain-looking and trying desperately to look sexy. I feel badly for this family, and it looks like this serial cheater picked the wrong crazy woman to mess with. The odds were against him, as he’s probably been doing this for years and inevitably ended up with a stalker. I think he’s lying though about the seriousness of the relationship and that he did give this girl false hope for something longer term.

Photo credit: NY Post