Michael Phelps chewed tobacco “like a sailor,” says stripper
Monday, May 11th, 2009 at 11:20 am | By: Radical Russ
Smoking marijuana = bad message to the children. Chewing tobacco? Eh, nobody needs to know.
Theresa White, a Latina exotic dancer in Phelps’ hometown, sat down with the News to discuss his supposed insatiable sexual appetite and hard partying ways.
White claims to have met the swimmer in November 2008, the same month the News released the now-infamous bong photos of Phelps.
“I saw Michael after the photos were published in February and he got really upset. He turned to me and said, ‘I can’t believe that happened. I’m terrified my career will be over.’ He was almost in tears.”
While there were no complaints in the bedroom, White says Phelps chewed tobacco “like a sailor,” with spittoons peppering his condo, cried often over the stresses of the marijuana scandal and remained in constant communication with his mother.
I could care less about Michael Phelps’ sexcapades with strippers. He’s a 23-year-old single man with fame and money; have fun. It’s the chewing tobacco I’ve got an issue with. Won’t somebody think of the children? We vilified Michael Phelps because his marijuana smoking would send a bad message to the children; is anyone now clamoring for Michael Phelps to issue apologies for his chewing tobacco use? That will cause more head and neck cancer than pot every will.
By the way, the latest celeb news on Phelps is that he’s dating National Organization for Marriage spokeswoman and pageant-purchased breast implant-recipient Miss California Carrie “Opposite Marriage” Prejean. There’s something oddly appropriate about that, I think; two young people who made stupid mistakes and suffered a media firestorm end up together.
