In her first interview since her release from jail two weeks ago, drug-addicted country singer Mindy McCready tells television’s Inside Edition that she is sorry for carrying on an extramarital affair with professional pitcher Roger Clemens when she was a teenager.

Mindy says she met the long-married Clemens in a karaoke bar when she was 16. While she insists that her relationship with the athlete didn’t turn sexual until several years later, the relationship lasted for a decade.

“Carrying on a relationship with him is not something I’m proud of,” she said, according to a partial transcript released by the newsmagazine. “Roger Clemens is one of the most wonderful men I’ve ever known. . . . He treated me like a princess.”

“We never had a meeting in secret. We went on vacations together. We went to Palm Springs. We went to Las Vegas, New York City,” Mindy explained.

“I wanted him to do right by me . . . and when he wouldn’t, I broke it off.”

As for Mrs. Clemens, Mindy says that she is deeply sorry for any pain she caused.
“I have nothing but remorse and . . . sympathy for what she’s had to go through with this situation, and she has my utmost apology.”