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Mayweather's ex opens up about 2010 beating incident: report
By ANTHONY SULLA-HEFFINGER
Last Updated: 1:55 PM, May 1, 2013
Posted: 1:36 PM, May 1, 2013
After years of silence following being battered and beaten by Floyd Mayweather Jr., the boxer’s former long-term partner, Josie Harris, has decided to break her silence.
Following the airing of Showtime’s “30 Days In May,” Harris addressed the notions expressed in the documentary that she and her children lied about the Sept. 9, 2010 attack, that Mayweather’s two-month jail term was unwarranted and that the severity of the beating was embellished.
Harris gave her side of the story in an exclusive interview with Yahoo! Sports.
"Did he beat me to a pulp?" Josie Harris said. "No, but I had bruises on my body and contusions and [a] concussion because the hits were to the back of my head. I believe it was planned to do that … because the bruises don't show …"
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Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Mayweather called the charges “over-exaggerated” and “trumped up” during the documentary and his team of handlers said that there was no harm inflicted on Harris. On the night of the attack, the boxer was joined by his friend James “P-Reala” McNair, who allegedly blocked a stairway, preventing Mayweather and Harris’ 11-year-old son Koraun from running to get police while his Dad was “hitting and kicking” his mom.
When Koraun and his siblings attempted to call for help, Mayweather allegedly turned to them and warned he would "beat their ass if they left the house and called police."
Eventually Koraun was able to reach the security patrol for the complex where Harris lives, potentially saving her life.
"There is no telling," she says, taking a deep breath and clasping her hands together. "In the heat of the moment you are upset and enraged and you pick up a lamp … "He could have hit me in the head in the wrong place. … I could have died. He would've been on murder charges. I could've grabbed a knife from the kitchen, stabbed him – anything."
The attack was sparked by a series of texts Harris received from current Nets guard C.J. Watson. Hours after a verbal altercation brought authorities to Harris’ home, Mayweather woke her up at 5 a.m. yelling about texts she had received from the basketball player.
"Are you having sex with C.J.?" Mayweather yelled at Harris, according to the arrest report.
"Yes, that is who I am seeing now," she replied.
At one point, Mayweather yelled, "I'm going to kill you and the man you are messing around with," Harris told police. "I'm going to have you both disappear."
Mayweather had already been living with his current girlfriend, Shantel “Miss” Jackson, but according to Harris, the boxer did not want her seeing other men while she lived in a house owned by him.
While the police report says that Mayweather hit Harris with “closed fists,” pulled her off the couch by her hair and twisted her arm, Jackson believes that Mayweather is innocent and Harris’ claims were all fabricated.
"This judicial system is really messed up," Jackson said in the documentary. "How can someone who really didn't do anything have to suffer a consequence for something of this magnitude? It really does anger me, because how can a lie get so far?"
“30 Days In May” has chronicled Mayweather’s life as he prepares for Saturday’s WBC Welterweight Title fight against Robert Guerrero.
Mayweather's ex opens up about 2010 beating incident: report
By ANTHONY SULLA-HEFFINGER
Last Updated: 1:55 PM, May 1, 2013
Posted: 1:36 PM, May 1, 2013
After years of silence following being battered and beaten by Floyd Mayweather Jr., the boxer’s former long-term partner, Josie Harris, has decided to break her silence.
Following the airing of Showtime’s “30 Days In May,” Harris addressed the notions expressed in the documentary that she and her children lied about the Sept. 9, 2010 attack, that Mayweather’s two-month jail term was unwarranted and that the severity of the beating was embellished.
Harris gave her side of the story in an exclusive interview with Yahoo! Sports.
"Did he beat me to a pulp?" Josie Harris said. "No, but I had bruises on my body and contusions and [a] concussion because the hits were to the back of my head. I believe it was planned to do that … because the bruises don't show …"
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Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Mayweather called the charges “over-exaggerated” and “trumped up” during the documentary and his team of handlers said that there was no harm inflicted on Harris. On the night of the attack, the boxer was joined by his friend James “P-Reala” McNair, who allegedly blocked a stairway, preventing Mayweather and Harris’ 11-year-old son Koraun from running to get police while his Dad was “hitting and kicking” his mom.
When Koraun and his siblings attempted to call for help, Mayweather allegedly turned to them and warned he would "beat their ass if they left the house and called police."
Eventually Koraun was able to reach the security patrol for the complex where Harris lives, potentially saving her life.
"There is no telling," she says, taking a deep breath and clasping her hands together. "In the heat of the moment you are upset and enraged and you pick up a lamp … "He could have hit me in the head in the wrong place. … I could have died. He would've been on murder charges. I could've grabbed a knife from the kitchen, stabbed him – anything."
The attack was sparked by a series of texts Harris received from current Nets guard C.J. Watson. Hours after a verbal altercation brought authorities to Harris’ home, Mayweather woke her up at 5 a.m. yelling about texts she had received from the basketball player.
"Are you having sex with C.J.?" Mayweather yelled at Harris, according to the arrest report.
"Yes, that is who I am seeing now," she replied.
At one point, Mayweather yelled, "I'm going to kill you and the man you are messing around with," Harris told police. "I'm going to have you both disappear."
Mayweather had already been living with his current girlfriend, Shantel “Miss” Jackson, but according to Harris, the boxer did not want her seeing other men while she lived in a house owned by him.
While the police report says that Mayweather hit Harris with “closed fists,” pulled her off the couch by her hair and twisted her arm, Jackson believes that Mayweather is innocent and Harris’ claims were all fabricated.
"This judicial system is really messed up," Jackson said in the documentary. "How can someone who really didn't do anything have to suffer a consequence for something of this magnitude? It really does anger me, because how can a lie get so far?"
“30 Days In May” has chronicled Mayweather’s life as he prepares for Saturday’s WBC Welterweight Title fight against Robert Guerrero.
Probably still loves her, and all this Miss Jackson stuff is an attempt to make her jealous.
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