Posted on 03/29/2006 12:48:46 PM PST by 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.
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"Johnson said in a Feb. 3 affidavit. "[Roszell] should not receive a windfall for expenses she did not incur."
Well why did you keep sending her the check you big dummy?
$5000/month is not chump change. The child is now 16. He was a stupid, horny young man when he impregnated this woman. And she must have been a willing victim.
The woman is asking him to buy the girl a car and pay for her college tuition. He's pointing out that he's been sending her bonus money for years. Money that could have bought her a good, reliable car plus been put toward tuition. Of course, he has deep pockets so he should pay more . . .
My ex had the hots for him...hahaha
$5000 a month in unreportable child support...that's not bad. Plus day care expenses. That's a sweet deal. Randy has been paying all along as well. Don't see how this makes Randy a bad guy....He has acknowledged his obligations, has been responsible to his child.
Never married. Story doesn't really say whether or not it was a fling or something longer.
But, he does seem to say that he's done being worked over for cash by the woman. And, $60K a year in child support is a pretty tidy sum.
He hasn't paid her a bloomin fortune for knowing her. He is paying to help a girl abandoned by her father (only because he is forced to apparently). If the mother does not see to it that the money is used that way, then she is a jerk too.
Ohhhhhh wow, that hurts.
He is one ugly M.F.
A story on Foxnews.com states she is a childhood friend of his sister. Knew him for years. They dated, his anger became a problem for her and she ended it.
Please cool the drama. We don't know if the kid was "abandoned" by Johnson.
Quite possible the breakup had little to do with the kid. That happens.
In any event, I wouldn't call $5,750 in child support per month for 16 years "abandonment."
He's a guy with some issues. Makes him a great pitcher but a bad human being.
Now he's a stupid forty-two-year-old man!
Must be something more to the story here. He makes what? Over $10M a year? I doubt he even handles any of his money - probably has accountants and lawyers to do that. $97K is not even a week's pay for him.
Creep.
Exactly what I was thinking! Ichabod Crane was better looking.
That's not what other reports said. I guess this will be a he said, she said thing. Don't get me wrong, I'm not defending him.
But he's a really good pitcher. lol
The funniest film clip I've seen on the internet is when Randy Johnson was pitching during a game, and he hit a pigeon/dove/bird and it exploded over the field. I know that's probably awful of me. Hubby and the kids and I have watched that and laughed every time.
You got good seats for Homo-Day at Fenway?
Even though she may have done it for all the wrong reasons, she deserves big money for having sex with anyone that ugly.
Funny. I've heard him called many things but handsome or attractive were never used! Gangly, string-beanish, with a raggedy fu manchu and a mullet and a complexion akin to the dart-team goalie!
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