Bill Belichick’s embattled girlfriend, Jordon Hudson, has a new ally.
Controversial WAG Kelly Stafford came to Hudson’s defense following the former cheerleader’s polarizing decision to interrupt Belichick’s “CBS Sunday Morning” interview.
“I think it’s fair game both ways,” Stafford, who is married to Los Angeles Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford, said in Thursday’s episode of her podcast, “The Morning After.”
“If she doesn’t want to talk about it, then they don’t have to talk about it.”
In the instantly infamous moment from the interview, Hudson, 24, stepped in after journalist Tony Dokoupil asked Belichick, 73, how the couple met.
“We’re not talking about this,” she bluntly stated from off-camera.
Dokoupil stated in a voiceover after the awkward segment that Hudson was a “constant presence” during the sit-down, adding that neither she nor Belichick was “comfortable” discussing their relationship.
Despite standing up for Hudson’s intentions in protecting her personal life, Kelly, 35, concurred with her co-host, Hank Winchester, that the former pageant queen’s interjection was “unacceptable.”
“I agree with that,” she said.
Kelly also suggested that Hudson should have anticipated questions about her headline-making romance with the UNC head football coach.
“Bill Belichick, you never really saw him much in the social media platform stuff, and now he’s everywhere with her,” she noted.
“I do think there is a little bit of responsibility for her knowing that questions are going to be asked because they are so public with their relationship.”
Kelly — who is no stranger to controversy herself, having raised eyebrows with her past comments about Colin Kaepernick, COVID-19 and other hot topics — is far from the only public figure to weigh in on Belichick’s Q&A.
Since the conversation aired Sunday, Megyn Kelly has questioned whether Belichick is a victim of elder abuse, and Dave Portnoy wondered aloud whether the NFL legend is being “held hostage.”
Perhaps most surprisingly, Belichick’s own family joined in Wednesday when his daughter-in-law took a swipe at Hudson via social media.
After comedian Nikki Glaser took to Instagram to back Julian Edelman and Rob Gronkowski’s comments suggesting Hudson was working as Belichick’s publicist, Jennifer Schmitt, who is married to Belichick’s son Steve Belichick, fired back in the comments section.
“Publicists act in a professional manner and don’t ‘storm’ off set delaying an interview,” Schmitt wrote.
Bill responded to the rampant backlash in a statement to Page Six earlier Wednesday, defending his much-younger girlfriend and clarifying that he had hoped the interview would center on promotion of his new book, “The Art of Winning: Lessons from My Life in Football.”
He asserted that he had “clearly communicated” with a publicist at his publisher, Simon & Schuster, that any reporters “would agree to focus solely on the contents of the book.”
“Unfortunately, that expectation was not honored during the interview,” the statement continued, adding that he was “surprised when unrelated topics were introduced.”
Bill stated that Hudson only intervened after he “repeatedly” attempted to redirect Dokoupil and that she did so in an effort to “refocus the discussion.”
CBS News swiftly clapped back with a statement of its own.
“When we agreed to speak with Mr. Belichick, it was for a wide-ranging interview,” the network said in a statement shared to X on Wednesday.
“There were no preconditions or limitations to this conversation. This was confirmed repeatedly with his publisher before the interview took place and after it was completed.”
Hudson, meanwhile, took to X to express her frustration with a series of savage retweets.
“Bill looks like he wants to reach across and strangle the journalist,” read one message she reposted. “I kind of wish he did.”
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