Antonio Brown was willing to flout the NFL’s Covid-19 protocols and sneak an OnlyFans model into his hotel room before the Buccaneers’ game against the Jets last Sunday. But he didn’t want Tom Brady to catch him.
Ava Louise, who went viral in March 2020 for licking an airport toilet seat in an attempt to catch Covid, spoke about her experience Thursday with the Daily Mail. The 23-year-old says Brown messaged her to come over Saturday night and sleepover, but informed her she would have to sneak out before his 7:00 a.m. meeting with Brady.
Louise declined the invitation, and left after their covert and abbreviated rendezvous. She told WFAN’s “Carton and Roberts” it was easy for her to sneak into the Jersey City Westin, where the Bucs were staying ahead of their contest.
“I see a bunch of people going in the elevator and I just hop in,” Louise said. “There’s a big sign that it’s the Bucs floor, saying Tom Brady is on the second floor and where they go for training and stuff like that. So I look and there’s a security guard sitting there at a desk. I’m on the phone with him like ‘be right there,’ just walk past the security guard. The security guard just looks up at me and sees me go into the room, and that was that.”
The Bucs released Brown Thursday after he had posted a text exchange with Bruce Arians, claiming the Tampa Bay coaching staff was forcing him to play through a serious ankle injury.
Brady, who spoke about his empathy for Brown earlier in the week, said Thursday he wants to just focus on football. Brown also posted a text exchange with Alex Guerrero, in which Brown expressed his dissatisfaction with Guerrero’s work and asked for his money back (Guerrero said he would oblige).
“I think there’s a lot of personal, obviously, feelings," Brady said to reporters. "I don’t think this is really the week to discuss it, though. I am just going to do the best I can do as a quarterback for the team and try and put together a great week and finish strong.”
Louise says she’s been messaging with Brown on Instagram since 2018 (the genesis of all great lustful romances), but had never met him before Saturday. She says she went public with her story because she was concerned about Brown’s mental state.
“He was mumbling [in the messages] and not making sense. Honestly, I thought he was drunk,” she told the Daily Mail. “He kept saying ‘I have money for you, I have a bonus for you,’ and I was like, ‘What are you saying?’ I just thought that was weird.”
The weirdness apparently continued when Louise entered Brown’s room. She says he insisted on filming their steamy encounter for her OnlyFans page, undeterred by the possibility of implicating himself in a sex scandal. Brown fell asleep after about an hour, but kept mumbling about how much he wanted to Louise to watch him play Sunday.
“He kept mumbling and then waking up and saying, ‘I'm going to give you tickets, I can't wait for you to see what I do tomorrow. I can't wait for you to see me tomorrow,’” she said.
Though Louise didn’t make it to the game, she texted Brown after his meltdown. He replied, ‘you see me baby?,’ and then stopped responding.
On WFAN, Louise said Brown told her few players respect the NFL’s strict Covid rules. (Memorably, Brown was suspended three games this season for using a fake vaccination card.)
“He was like ‘Yeah, the NFL rules for COVID are stupid, all the players aren’t vaccinated. You have no idea,’” she said.
In an ironic twist, Louise also revealed Thursday she’s tested positive for Covid (no word on whether she contracted the virus via toilet seat). She urged Buccaneers players to get tested in her Instagram story.