When Deshaun Watson looks around NRG Stadium on Sunday, he will be met with booing fans who used to cheer him on. Those days are long gone after he demanded a trade and then sexual assault accussers came out in droves to expose things he allegedly did during massage appointments.
The fans won’t be the only ones there as Tony Buzbee, the lawyer for 25 of the plaintiffs, will be in attendance with approximately 10 of the women who filed against the embattled player, according to The Athletic. With Watson fresh off his 11-game suspension and still facing two active civil suits, Buzbee told The Athletic that he will attend the game with “bells and whistles on.”
Befoe that game happens, Buzbee had a stern message for Watson and the Browns.
“We’re still here. We matter.”
That said, “Some of the women really want to attend the game to kind of make the statement, ‘Hey, we’re still here. We matter. Our voice was heard, and this is not something that’s over. [Sexual harassment and assault] happen every day in the United States,'” Buzbee explained.
25 women represented by Buzbee filed lawsuits. One woman dropped her lawsuit while 23 others settled their cases in August. An additional woman sued him, but withdrew her suit. Fifteen massage therapists defended Watson with statements of support. At least four worked for Genuine Touch, the massage firm hired by Watson’s former team, the Texans.
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Watson actually used “at least” 66 female massage therapists over just a 17-month period between the fall of 2019 and the spring of 2021, a bombshell report from The New York Times revealed earlier this year. Two grand juries in Texas have declined to proceed with criminal charges against Watson in connection with the myriad of allegations.
Watson and his attorneys repeatedly claimed any sexual activity with any of the massage therapists was consensual.
He was traded from the Texans to the Browns this offseason and signed a fully guaranteed five-year, $230 million contract.
