EXCLUSIVE: Shannon Sharpe Accused Of Ruining Lady’s Life & Inflicting Agoraphobia
Michele Evans hits Shannon Sharpe with a defamation swimsuit over his camp’s declare that she did jail time for tried homicide.
Shannon Sharpe can’t appear to search out his manner out of a courtroom, and now statements his camp made publicly on his behalf have turn into the inspiration of a brand-new defamation swimsuit in opposition to him.
Michele Evans filed the grievance, claiming phrases put into the general public report in Sharpe’s protection final yr left her mentally damaged and minimize off from the world.
Final yr, Evans filed a civil swimsuit in opposition to Sharpe, claiming they had been romantically concerned within the early 2000s, when she was a reporter for ESPN, and he was a standout for the Broncos.
Based on Evans, their relationship went off the rails after Sharpe supposedly grew to become abusive and possessive and finally, allegedly, raped her.
Evans’s new lawsuit, filed on April 24, 2026, targets a press release during which Sharpe’s aspect denied her claims and declared she was “nonetheless on probation after serving 3 years in jail for making an attempt to kill her husband in order that she may hopefully pursue a relationship with Shannon.”
Evans says that the declare is totally false and that she by no means tried to hurt her husband beneath any circumstances.
“[Shannon Sharpe’s] statements are false. [I] didn’t try and kill [my] husband and didn’t interact within the conduct alleged by [Sharpe]. [Sharpe] knew these statements had been false on the time they had been made, or acted with reckless disregard for his or her reality or falsity. [Sharpe] didn’t conduct any affordable investigation earlier than making such severe accusations,” Evans mentioned in her grievance.
She’s submitting for defamation per se, intentional infliction of emotional misery and negligent infliction of emotional misery, with punitive damages on the desk alongside compensatory ones.
The harm Evans describes in her grievance is in depth, overlaying PTSD, extreme nervousness, panic assaults, melancholy and agoraphobia.
“[I] required and proceed to require ongoing psychological therapy, together with weekly remedy. [I] additional suffered harm to [my] fame, psychological anguish, lack of enjoyment of life, and social withdrawal,” Evans mentioned.
She additionally alleges that Sharpe’s already damaging assertion bought twisted additional throughout social media into one thing even worse, with folks spreading variations claiming she had truly killed her husband relatively than simply tried to.
Evans has been combating Shannon Sharpe in court docket since 2023, when she filed her first defamation case in opposition to him for $4 million, and she or he later added a second swimsuit beneath the New York Metropolis Gender-Motivated Violence Act over an alleged sexual assault she says befell in 2010, as AllHipHop beforehand reported.
This new submitting drops after Sharpe navigated severe authorized and monetary fallout tied to completely different allegations.
He settled a $50 million lawsuit introduced by Gabriella Zuniga in July 2025, with reviews p###### the payout at roughly $20 million, and ESPN minimize ties with him days after that deal was confirmed.
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