Dianna Russini says her life has been heavily impacted after photos of her hugging Mike Vrabel were exposed by Page Six of the New York Post.
“This has had a significant impact on my life, both professionally and personally,” she told The New York Times – her former employer – via text message.
The married Russini stopped short of admitting whether she and the also-married Pats coach shared any intimacy.
She also didn’t elaborate on what she meant by “significant impact.”
Russini – who also referred to herself as a “former journalist” – asked the Times not to quote from the text messages.
However, the NYT reporter told Russsini, 43, that her comments would be included because she never asked them to be off-the-record, according to the Post’s Tamantha Ryan.
The former “SportsCenter” anchor then emailed the publisher of her most recent job, The Athletic, and two senior editors at the Times to restate that she did not want her comments included in their article.
Russini and Vrabel’s affair made headlines in April when Page Six published exclusive photos of them getting cozy at a luxury resort in Arizona.
The Post later released photos of Russini and Vrabel kissing and getting cozy in a NYC bar in 2020.
This set of photos took place six years before the pair was caught together in Arizona.
Amid aTimes investigation of Russini’s actions in the scandal, she resigned from her position as a senior NFL insider.
