Britt McHenry is speaking out after the drink-throwing incident at a Washington Wizards game cost her the job she had just taken at the State Department.
McHenry, the former ESPN reporter and Trump staffer, resigned on Friday after video from Capital One Arena showed her appearing to throw a drink at someone during the Wizards’ game against the Milwaukee Bucks. She had been appointed to the role last month.
In a three-minute video, McHenry laid out her version of what happened inside the arena. She said the trouble started when a man made vulgar remarks about Kyle Kuzma’s fiancée, Winnie Harlow’s skin condition. McHenry said she then made a comment about the man’s girlfriend, which led another man to shout, “Why don’t you shut the f-k up, you dumb b-ch?”
McHenry said she was not speaking to the man who said that. After the exchange, she and a friend were offered different seats, but she said she wanted no part of that option and went back to their original spots.
From there, she said the insults escalated. McHenry claimed she was told that she should get sexually assaulted outside. She said that was the moment she threw her drink, and then she and her friend got up and left.
According to McHenry, the situation did not end there. She said the pair were then hit with towels and drinks, and that one of the main people involved was ejected. McHenry said she left after that, telling her friend to stay behind.
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