'Love child', mother lambaste Big Unit (Randy Johnson refuses to acknowlegde his daughter)

MSNBC ^ | 3/29/2006 | NBCsports.com

[Proud_USA_Republican]

The 16-year-old "love child" of New York Yankees pitcher Randy Johnson said her star father coldly responded to letters she sent to him and that she cannot bear to watch him pitch on TV anymore, the New York Post reported Wednesday.

"I would get cards back from him with just his signature — 'Randy,' " said Heather Renee Roszell, who sent the letters in an effort to meet Johnson.

Johnson broke off his relationship with the girl's mother, Laura Roszell, 46, while she was pregnant, and he has seen Heather only once, shortly after she was born. He does have "reasonable visitation rights" from a custody agreement, Roszell told the Post.

Heather, who lives with her mother in Langley, Wash., told the Post that she stopped writing letters because "I never got [more of] a response, so it got to the point where I didn't want to deal with not getting the response.

"I don't have a relationship with him."

Johnson is suing Laurel Roszell for $97,000 for child-care payments he made for Heather, according to court documents revealed by the New York Daily News and New York Post on Tuesday.

[Proud_USA_Republican]

I know what a dick this guy is from his pitching days here in Seattle. The guy is worth over 20 million dollars, still makes millions each year pitching, and he's suing the mother of his daughter to get 97,000 back from her in child-support payments? I think his daughter is better off not having anything to do with this mullet sporting moron.

[Holicheese]

Hopefully she does not look anything like him.
I think he needs a swift kick in the *ss!

[ChiTownBearFan]

What do you expect from a Yankee??

[IncPen]

Randy Johnson has a love child?

No kidding?

[LanPB01]

The assault he committed on that cameraman shortly after arriving in New York was unexcusable.

[gate2wire]

"What do you expect from a Yankee??"

BWHahahahahaha

[paul51]

I want to keep it private," Johnson told the Post.

He doesn't seem to be using the right approach. What a major league jack ass

[Holicheese]

No kidding. Bunch of low class bums!
Go RedSox.

[Red Badger]

Randy Johnson....how apropos.......

[jazusamo]

Sounds like the turkey suffers from extreme lack of class.

[Red Badger]

It was his randy johnson what got him into trouble in the first place.........

[stylin19a]

actually, he's suing to stop the additional 750 a month (on top of 5k a month) for day care expenses that he's been paying, and to get back the payments for the last few years (plus interest), as she hasn't been in day care for awhile.

Course, it's almost time for her to go to college, and no mention was made of those arrangements, so we'll see this mess back in the news in a couple of years.

[BenLurkin]

According to the documents, Johnson first agreed in 1997 to pay Roszell $5,000 per month in child support for Heather, and another $750 in monthly day care expenses, the Daily News said.

Johnson then demanded that Laurel return $71,000 in day-care payments and $26,000 in interest because the teen was too old to be in day care, according to legal papers.

"My daughter is 16 and has not been in day care for at least five years," Johnson said in a Feb. 3 affidavit. "[Roszell] should not receive a windfall for expenses she did not incur."

[cripplecreek]

The Big Eunuch

[LYSandra]

What a creep! He makes millions and he money back? He sure was there to make a kid wsn't he but then runs from his own child. I hope he doesn't have any more kids. What a great role model lots of the sports figures are! Should start an email campaign to the Yankees/him and get on him to do the right thing by this child. He helped make her he needs to be responsible altho guess he is not a father by any stretch. I hope this experience will teach him to keep his pants up! I'm going to email the Yankees!

[TexasCajun]

I do acknowledge that I have a daughter from a previous relationship, which ended years before my marriage," Johnson, 42, said in a statement. "I have fully financially supported her and have made every effort to protect her privacy."

Johnson thinking, "I wish she would have been aborted!"

What a Major-League Jerk!
The money in question is chump change for ths pro athlete.

[JennysCool]

According to the documents, Johnson first agreed in 1997 to pay Roszell $5,000 per month in child support for Heather, and another $750 in monthly day care expenses, the Daily News said.

I'd say the ex-wife's made out very well. And I can almost guarantee she didn't entirely use the $5,750 PER MONTH as "child support" and "day care."

Johnson may be a jerk, but he's ALREADY paid this woman a bloomin' fortune for the privilege of knowing her.

[Boston Blackie]

Does this rule him out for the Father of the Year award?

[gate2wire]

"[Roszell] should not receive a windfall for expenses she did not incur."


That's what this is all about. Aside from the fact that he ignores the daughter, he's still mad at the mother for dumping him.

[dennisw]

Perhaps this woman tricked RJ into this pregnancy. Swore up and down she was using birth control but really schemed to get pregnant. She seems a bit older than RJ.