Here’s what we can say with some certainty: A lady who goes by the name of @ThaSwagPrincess on Twitter stayed over at Crimson Tide quarterback AJ McCarron’s house this past weekend. She admitted as much to RadarOnline, at least.
And while we can’t say that AJ McCarron is definitely cheating on his bombshell girlfriend (and Brent Musberger’s natural Viagra) Katherine Webb, based on Margaret Wood’s tweets — some deleted, some still standing — and her interview, it looks that way.
Wood was in Tuscaloosa, Alabama and, as a “friend” of AJ’s, decided to get together with him. We’ll let RadarOnline’s report take it from there:
“We were hanging out at his house, and I had been drinking, so he didn’t want me to drive,” Maxim hometown hottie contestant Margaret Wood tells RadarOnline.com exclusively. “I did not stay at a hotel. That’s all I can say. I’m trying to be careful about what I say because I feel really bad.”
Margaret and AJ go way back, she claims — before Katherine was even on the scene. “I’ve known AJ for a long time,” Margaret explains. “He asked for my number back in the fall when I was on the sidelines at the Ole Miss-Alabama game. I didn’t even know who he was. I had no idea he was even talking to Katherine. I thought he was cute.”
AJ then met Katherine at an event in December, 2012. But he didn’t tell Margaret. “I was making plans to go see him, and then I saw on ESPN about Katherine. I was like, whatever, thanks for telling me,” Margaret says. “But it’s not like he had to tell me, I guess, since it wasn’t serious like that. I’ve kissed AJ, but it’s not a big deal.”
So the two of them have a history together, they got drunk and she spent the night at his place. You could still make the argument that they simply passed out on the same bad, perhaps facing away from each other in mirroring fetal positions, and then parted ways amicably once daylight came. But here are some now-deleted tweets from the next day, via With Leather:
Tuscaloosa and the temptations here.
— Margaret Wood (@ThaSwagPrincess) June 9, 2013
What I woke up to this morning >>>> what you woke up to this morning.
— Margaret Wood (@ThaSwagPrincess) June 9, 2013
That doesn’t sound like someone who woke up with a hangover. Did AJ McCarron cook ThaSwagPrincess a delicious breakfast and send her on her way? Doubtful. [Insert pun about "sausage" here.]
Interestingly, it looks like Wood had a change of heart soon after the supposed incident(s). Either that, or she realized that deleting those original tweets would not make the message disappear from the Internet entirely, and she offered this as a response:
You have GOT to be kidding me. I hang out in Tuscaloosa one night after my flight got canceled and I’m in tabloids. #annoyed
— Margaret Wood (@ThaSwagPrincess) June 10, 2013
So, to recap: a “friend” of McCarron’s, who happens to be a Maxim underwear model, got drunk with the QB, stayed over his place, tweeted about it, deleted those tweets, feigned ignorance of why that would be a big deal, then went and interviewed with RadarOnline admitting the whole thing and said things like this:
“It’s his business, and he should be able to do what he wants to do. He was texting me this morning about the story coming out, and I was like, ‘I don’t know what to tell Katherine,’” Margaret told Radar. “I don’t know her personally, but I would tell her, ‘I’ve known him longer than you. We’re just friends and it’s not a big deal’.”
Either this is an elaborate, ridiculous publicity stunt that will hurt a lot of people’s feelings (and totally worked, since we just spent time relaying you the information), or this girl banged AJ McCarron and now the quarterback is going to lose out on all this.
Though we’ll pose to you, the readers, this question: If you got drunk with a lady that looked like this and she stayed over your place, would you do the same?
We’ll see if there’s any further public fallout from this, and/or if Nick Saban blasts a lot of “Pickin’ Up The Pieces Of Love” in the locker room this fall.
Ricky Boebel contributed to this post.
[Uproxx]