Shannon Sharpe addresses accidental intimate audio leak on Instagram Live

HOLLYWOOD (WKRC) — Shannon Sharpe confirmed {that a} viral Instagram Dwell submit shared audio of himself engaged in sexual exercise with a girl to his practically 3.2 million followers Wednesday.

Sharpe appeared subsequent to former Bengals star Chad “Ochocinco” Johnson in an emergency episode of Nightcap to deal with the scenario.

“Clearly I’m embarrassed. Somebody that’s extraordinarily, extraordinarily non-public and to have considered one of your most intimate particulars – the audio – heard for the whole world to listen to, I’m embarrassed for quite a few causes,” the Professional Soccer Corridor of Famer stated within the episode. “Folks rely on Shannon… There are lots of people that rely on Shannon to be skilled always and I at all times attempt to be skilled always, even once I’m behind closed doorways. I nonetheless attempt to stay, a stage {of professional}, though I am within the privateness of my own residence. I am very disillusioned in myself. Not for the act. I feel there are tens of millions and billions of individuals of consenting age that interact in actions, however for to have probably the most intimate element, for the audio to be heard… I am disillusioned in myself. I let lots of people down. My youngsters, I reached out to them. I referred to as them. I referred to as my sister.”

In the course of the emergency episode, Sharpe confirmed that he had gone dwell by mistake, contradicting a now-deleted X submit from the ESPN persona during which he claimed that he had been hacked, per The New York Put up.

“I got here in. I threw my cellphone on the mattress. I engaged in an exercise. I’ve by no means been on IG Dwell. I’ve by no means turned IG Dwell on, so I do not know the way it works,” Sharpe stated.

Sharpe went on to say that he started receiving calls from his advertising and marketing companion on one other cellphone. After being alerted to the scenario, one other individual ended the IG Dwell, Sharpe defined on the present.

“My cellphone wasn’t hacked. It wasn’t a prank, it was me being a wholesome, lively male,” Sharpe stated throughout the present.

Johnson and Sharpe did make gentle of the scenario at a number of factors throughout the present and Sharpe went on to promote a male enhancement product that sponsors the present.