Britt McHenry says truly vile remark sparked

Former ESPN reporter Britt McHenry says she threw a drink at a man after he said “something truly vile to me” during an incident at a Washington Wizards recreation last week that reportedly led to McHenry resigning from her job with the U.S. Department of State the next day.

Video footage, posted by GWN, from the Wizards’ recreation against the Milwaukee Bucks on Oct. 21 at Capital One Arena reveals McHenry speaking to a male companion and an usher from her seat while followers seated around her will be heard making unfavourable feedback about her and chanting, “Kick her out!”

As McHenry and her buddy finally start to go away on their own, a clear liquid will be seen hitting or coming close to hitting her on the back of the top. She then throws a drink of her own. As she makes her method up the steps, McHenry offers the center finger and blows kisses to the group as some people heckle and throw towels at her.

On Tuesday, McHenry posted a video on Instagram giving her aspect of the story. She said that a man sitting in entrance of her was making “egregiously loud” and “vile” feedback toward Bucks ahead Kyle Kuzma about the looks of his fiancée, model Winnie Harlow, who has the pores and skin condition vitiligo.

“I then make a snarky comment — probably shouldn’t have, but everyone behind me laughed — and just said, ‘Oh, I’m sure your girlfriend’s really beautiful, right?’” McHenry said. “Guy in that row, whether he was with that man or not, turns around and says to me, ‘Why don’t you shut the f— up, you dumb b—,’ quoting him, to which I say to him, like, ‘I wasn’t even talking to you. Who are you?’ And that’s where it escalates.”

McHenry says she and her buddy, whom she identifies as Andrew, left their seats and went to a lobby, where an usher provided to transfer them to seats in another half of the sector.

“But I say to Drew, you purchased $250 to $300 a piece tickets,” McHenry said. “Why should we have to move because these men around us can’t behave and are heckling and harassing me. No, we’re going back. In hindsight, I wish we would have left.”

After they returned, McHenry said, people began throwing drinks at them.

“And the main agitator says something truly vile to me about what should be done to me, allegedly about getting gang raped outside,” McHenry said, “and that is when I threw the rest of my beer in that direction, turned around, and said, ‘Drew, let’s get out of here.’”

One video reveals McHenry later talking with a security employee close to one of the venue’s entrances. When he gestures toward the exit, she seems surprised and asks, “What did I do?”

McHenry doesn’t point out this encounter in her video and says she determined to go away the sector. But, she said, the “main agitator” was thrown out. Monumental Sports & Entertainment, which owns and operates the Wizards and Capital One Arena, didn’t immediately reply to questions from The Times about the incident.

McHenry labored at ESPN from 2014 to 2017, then spent a number of years with Fox News. In September, she announced on social media that she was working as a press advisor for the State Department.

Page Six reported Friday that McHenry had been “forced to resign” yesterday. McHenry then told Front Office Sports that she signed a resignation letter. The State Department told both publications that it doesn’t remark on inside personnel issues.

McHenry, who didn’t point out her employment standing in her video, doesn’t appear to have any regrets about her habits that night time.

“I was sticking up for Winnie Harlow, a woman that I admire, and many women and young girls look up to,” McHenry said. “And I was sticking up for myself.”