(SportsRadio 610) -- Deshaun Watson's attorneys are responding to the 22 lawsuits against the Texans' quarterback by saying some of the accusers are lying about the trauma they experienced, the number of massage sessions with Watson and either scrubbed or deleted their social media accounts.
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In Watson's original answer to the lawsuits, filed by his attorneys Monday morning, six main allegations against the accusers are presented.
- After the massage therapy sessions with Mr. Watson, 8 plaintiffs bragged about, praised, and were excited about massaging Mr. Watson;
- 7 plaintiffs willingly worked or offered to work with Mr. Watson after their alleged incidents;
- 3 plaintiffs lied about the number of sessions they actually had with Mr.
Watson;
- 3 plaintiffs lied about their alleged trauma and resulting harm;
- 5 plaintiffs told others they wanted to get money out of Mr. Watson;
- 5 plaintiffs have scrubbed or entirely deleted their social media accounts.
According to Watson's attorneys, it was not until the plaintiffs saw an opportunity for a money grab that they changed their stories.
The plaintiffs bragged about the therapy sessions with Watson to friends and family, his attorneys say in the answer to the lawsuits, citing the accounts of security guards at the spa where the sessions took place.
The attorneys name the accusers in their answer, going line by line of alleged inconsistencies in each one of their stories.
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Further, Watson's attorneys say at least one of his accusers deleted the Instagram account supposedly used to advertise her services.
Watson's defense focuses on the first of 22 accusers, Ashley Solis.
"In the first lawsuit filed, Plaintiff Ashley Solis implies that Mr. Watson’s question — asking if she “was comfortable with certain areas [his] organization is making him get worked on”—was somehow sexually suggestive," the answer states. "That same question, however, posed to a therapist not seeking to exploit Mr. Watson, was perceived as it was intended: a legitimate therapeutic inquiry.1 Ms. Solis’s skewed perception of Mr. Watson’s legitimate and innocent query became a prototype for the assembly line of similar allegations in subsequent lawsuits."
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