Shannon Sharpe addresses accidental intimate audio leak on Instagram Live

HOLLYWOOD (WKRC) — Shannon Sharpe confirmed {that a} viral Instagram Dwell put up shared audio of himself engaged in sexual exercise with a lady 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 handle the scenario.

“Clearly I’m embarrassed. Somebody that’s extraordinarily, extraordinarily non-public and to have one among your most intimate particulars – the audio – heard for the complete world to listen to, I’m embarrassed for plenty of causes,” the Professional Soccer Corridor of Famer stated within the episode. “Folks depend on Shannon… There are lots of people that depend on Shannon to be skilled always and I all the time 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 upset in myself. Not for the act. I feel there are thousands and thousands and billions of individuals of consenting age that have interaction in actions, however for to have essentially the most intimate element, for the audio to be heard… I am upset in myself. I let lots of people down. My youngsters, I reached out to them. I known as them. I known as my sister.”

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

“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 associate on one other cellphone. After being alerted to the scenario, one other particular person 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, energetic male,” Sharpe stated in the course of the present.

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