Watson filings seek to undermine woman's lawsuit

Attorneys for Deshaun Watson filed a bid of tribunal exhibits Monday, which they've offered arsenic grounds to undermine allegations from the latest pistillate to impeach Watson of sexually assaulting her during a massage session.

In her suit filed earlier this month, the woman, who sued Watson nether the pseudonym Jane Doe, alleged that Watson attempted to unit her into "massaging his backstage area" and having enactment and, ultimately, "was capable to unit her into oral sex" during a December 2018 massage astatine the Houstonian hotel.

She alleged Watson paid her $300 for her services, "although her mean complaint was $115 for an hr massage," according to the lawsuit.

But according to the tribunal filings, the pistillate had her allegations "considered -- and yet rejected" by Houston police, who interviewed her arsenic aboriginal arsenic April 2021. During a connection the pistillate made successful November 2021 to a paralegal astatine the instrumentality steadfast of Rusty Hardin, Watson's Houston-based attorney, the pistillate said: "I wasn't scared, I wasn't intimidated. I didn't bash thing I didn't privation to do. I didn't bash thing to wherever I didn't consciousness similar it was safe," according to the tribunal filings.

The woman's suit was the 26th known civilian lawsuit filed against Watson, accusing him of inappropriate intersexual misconduct oregon intersexual battle during massage sessions.

In tribunal filings Monday, attorneys for Watson submitted galore exhibits which suggest the pistillate was funny successful a narration with Watson.

"I would emotion to beryllium successful love, and to emotion him.... I don't privation to enactment transgression charges connected him. It wasn't criminal. We were successful determination playing astir and that was it," the pistillate told a paralegal successful Hardin's firm, according to the tribunal filing.

Monday's tribunal filings besides see respective nonstop messages the pistillate sent to Watson successful the months aft their December 2018 encounter.

"I'd similar to spot you again (sic) We should bent out," the pistillate wrote to Watson 11 days aft their massage session.

"Can you put successful me?" the pistillate asked Watson successful different nonstop message.

Several months later, the pistillate past went connected to marque what appeared to beryllium a sexually explicit connection to Watson.

"This grounds undeniably establishes that portion this whitethorn beryllium a lawsuit of unrequited love, nether nary agelong of the imaginativeness is this a lawsuit of assault," Watson's attorneys wrote successful a question filed Monday seeking sanctions against the plaintiff's attorney.

Watson is presently serving an 11-game suspension for violating the NFL's idiosyncratic behaviour policy. On Aug. 18, the NFL and NFL Players Association reached a colony connected Watson's suspension. He was besides fined $5 cardinal and has had to acquisition a mandatory attraction program.

At the NFL's autumn gathering successful New York commissioner Roger Goodell said helium was satisfied Watson had followed the presumption of his suspension agreement.

"As acold arsenic immoderate further [allegations], we evidently volition travel each of those," Goodell said. "If there's caller information, we'll instrumentality that into consideration, but we'll spot arsenic clip goes on."

Two expansive juries successful Texas declined to prosecute transgression charges against Watson earlier this year. Sue L. Robinson, an autarkic arbiter jointly appointed by the league and players' union, recovered that "the NFL carried its load to prove, by a preponderance of the evidence, that Mr. Watson engaged successful intersexual assault."

Robinson concluded successful her study that Watson's behaviour was "egregious" and "predatory."

While precocious allowed to reenter the Browns grooming installation for the archetypal clip since being suspended since Aug. 30 arsenic portion of the settlement, Watson can't signifier with the squad again until Nov. 14 and won't beryllium eligible to play until Week 13, erstwhile the Browns question to look his erstwhile team, the Texans successful Houston connected Dec. 4.