AND he's cheap, too? Now that really tears it...
Coming down Hard (Rock) on Roger Clemens
You can add one more rap to Roger Clemens’ getting-longer-by-the-day rap sheet: cheapskate!
The ex-hero hurler - accused of abusing steroids and bedding teenager Mindy McCready - isn’t exactly remembered fondly at the old Hard Rock Cafe on Clarendon Street.
“He was essentially America’s guest at the Hard Rock,” said publicist George Regan, who repped the vintage hotspot back when Clemens was the ace of the Red Sox [team stats] bullpen and the toast of the town.
“He was always hanging around the Hard Rock back then and one time he asked us to do a ‘small party’ for his wife,” Regan recalled. “Well, we did it, about 300 people showed up - which we were not expecting - and the Hard Rock footed the whole bill, and he didn’t even leave a tip!”
No doubt Roger would say he misremembered to duke the staff . . . .
Anyway, yesterday McCready confirmed a New York Daily News report that she and Clemens were lovers and that their affair started in Fort Myers, Fla., when she was just 15 years old and Roger was 28, a married father of two and the Red Sox’ best pitcher.
“I cannot refute anything in the story,” McCready tearfully told the Daily News yesterday.
A handful of Boston people who hung out with Roger back in the day said they had no recollection of him squiring around the 15-year-old aspiring singer - but that Clemens was usually shadowed by wife, Debbie, when he was in Boston.
“He was always hanging out in a gang of ballplayers and wives, girlfriends and whatever else. No one knew who was who,” said one former pal.
And Clemens didn’t exactly try to fly under the radar when he was hanging in his then-hometown.
“Whenever he came into the Hard Rock, they had to play ‘Rocket Man,’ ” recalled another ex-employee. “He really liked that.”
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