Following a much-criticized ESPN interview with former NFL defensive end Greg Hardy—who was suspended by the NFL for four games in 2015 for his part in a high-profile domestic dispute—ESPN’s own reporter Michelle Beadle doesn’t seem thrilled to be part of the network that gave Hardy a voice as he tries to find a team to sign him for the 2016 season.
“For some reason we’ve decided as a network that we’re going to give him the stage for his redemption tour,” Beadle said. Hardy denied his domestic violence charges in the ESPN interview.
“I don’t understand why we’re doing that. If he wants to figure out a way to get his message out there—which by the way, he hasn’t said he did anything wrong, so how a man is supposed to convince anybody he’s changed and yet not admit to actually doing anything? I have no idea,” said Beadle. “But why we’re giving him the forum to go out there and tell anybody, that is where I’m a little bit confused.”
