Mindy McCready says affair with Roger Clemens was no secret

[Belinda]

Country star Mindy McCready is speaking out exclusively to INSIDE EDITION for the first time since getting out of jail just two weeks ago.

Talking about her time in jail, McCready says, "It's very humiliating. It's very degrading. If you are a proud person, you certainly won't be too proud when you leave there."

INSIDE EDITION was there as McCready sang for the first time since getting out of jail, the national anthem for her hometown team, the Nashville Broncs basketball game.

The voice that made her a country star, still intact, a smile on her beautiful face, but the ghosts of her past still haunt her. "I've lived life recklessly," she explained. "I've made a lot of mistakes."

One of the biggest, she says, is her affair with married baseball great Roger Clemens. She has never spoken about it publicly until now. "Carrying on a relationship with him is not something I'm proud of."
McCready says the two met when she was just 16-years-old. She says her attraction to the married baseball great was instant. "Roger Clemens is one of the most wonderful men I've ever known. I loved him very much…still love him to this day. He treated me like a princess."

She says their relationship didn't turn sexual until several years later. According to the country music star, she and Clemens never met in secret. Instead, she says, "We went on vacations together. We went to Palm Springs. We went to Las Vegas, New York City."

McCready says she and the married baseball player carried on an affair that lasted for nearly a decade. Clemens has denied an affair ever happened. "I wanted him to, after all that time, do the right thing by me. And, Roger is loyal and dedicated to his family...and so I ended it."

When asked what she might like to say to the baseball great's wife, McCready is apologetic. "I have nothing but remorse and nothing but sympathy for what she's had to go through with this situation and she has my utmost apology."

At 32, McCready, who was once engaged to Superman star Dean Cain, is working on a comeback. She's written a song about her troubled life entitled "I'm Still Here."

Speaking to her future, McCready is hopeful. "Redemption is out there for everybody to get and just watch me. I'm going to show you how to do it."

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[tkdgirl]

Does any one else find Clemens creepy?

[mrs.v]

Clemens is and always will be an asshole.

[angelais]

Yeah, sure it wasn't sexual when she was 16. What a load of crap.

[Sialia]

At some point, someone is really going to have to make a movie of her life. I mean, between this, the whole Dean Cain fiasco, the drugs and suicide attempts while PREGNANT, and everything else, you just can't make this stuff up. She's a million times more messed up than Amy Winehouse. Although hopefully she'll get things under control now.