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Reese Witherspoon doubles down on AI comments, adds 'no one is paying me' to say them
Actress Reese Witherspoon doubled down on her comments encouraging women to learn how to use artificial intelligence (AI) after receiving backlash for her original Instagram post.
The "Morning Show" and "Legally Blonde" actress grabbed attention last week for an Instagram video and post calling on people to learn how to use AI in their daily lives before it was too late.
"The AI revolution has begun, and I need to learn as much as I possibly can about AI and share it with all of you. Also, FYI: the jobs women hold are 3x more likely to be automated by AI, yet women are using AI at a rate 25% lower than men on average. We don’t want to be left behind. So … do you want to learn with me?" Witherspoon posted.
Witherspoon faced backlash from commenters suspecting the actress of being paid by AI companies to support the technology. In a new Instagram Story post on Monday, she stood by her post after it "got people talking."
"To be clear, no one is paying me to talk about this. I’m just a curious human. My kids are learning about AI tools, I know a lot of founders who are vibe coding, and I hear about people using AI in EVERY sector of business," the post read.
Witherspoon clarified that she was aware of the "valid" economic and environmental concerns over AI and AI data centers.
"I don’t believe computers should replace humanity. I’m planning on learning as much as possible so that I’m educated about this technological revolution. If you want to learn with me, great, let’s do this! If you don’t, that’s okay too," Witherspoon wrote.
In another Instagram Story, Witherspoon remarked that Instagram itself also uses AI in several ways, such as by detecting fake accounts and flagging harmful content.
"Which is why it's worth understanding...it's everywhere," she wrote.
Fox News Digital reached out to Witherspoon's representatives for comment.
After Witherspoon's original video, fellow actress Sandra Bullock made similar comments encouraging people to "lean into" AI to become more accustomed to the technology.
"We have to observe it. We have to understand it. We have to lean into it. We have to use it in a really constructive and creative way, make it our friend rather than — I mean, we have to be incredibly cautious and aware of it because there are people who will use it for evil and not good. But I do feel that there’s a place for it… It’s here. We have to just be friends in some dark way," Bullock said.
Pro wrestling star hits jackpot before Las Vegas flight home
Everyone has done it before.
You either win a few extra dollars at the casino, or you’re trying to make up for your losses, and you walk into the terminal at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas, waiting for your plane, and you see the lights of the last few dozen slot machines waiting to be used.
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This reporter tried his hand recently to add to his take after a Las Vegas trip, but failed miserably. (Still, took home some money).
Japanese pro wrestling star Saree had better luck.
Saree posted on her X account on Monday that she won $6,347 on the Buffalo Triple Power game before she went back home after a full week of wrestling during WrestleMania week.
"Beginner’s luck," she wrote. "I was so surprised!!!"
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Saree appeared to be wagering $2.40 a spin before hitting the big bonus. There didn’t appear to be a better way to cap off the week.
The 30-year-old Tokyo native is a former IWGP women’s champion who performs in Sukeban and runs the freelance show, Sareee-ISM. She also appeared in WWE NXT under the ring name Sarray before leaving the company, reportedly due to issues with her creative direction.
Nevertheless, Sarray is one of the best Japanese wrestlers on the circuit to date.
There’s no better feeling than giving the slot machine a whirl and leaving Las Vegas with a little more cash in your pocket than you had going in. At least she appeared to make her flight back home.
Why the Middle East agrees with President Trump more than America realizes
Americans are debating whether this war was worth it. Thirteen soldiers have come home in caskets. Hundreds more carry wounds. No one takes that lightly. Least of all someone like me — who chose this country and wears its flag by choice, not by birth.
I was born on the Iranian border and raised in the shadow of its wars. I have seen firsthand what these policies do to the people of this region. I still travel across the Middle East — I was in Erbil, Riyadh and Dubai just recently. I know what people say when the cameras are off. It is not anger at America. It is relief.
But here is what the critics are missing. For millions of people across the Middle East, this war did not start on February 28. It started decades ago. What changed is that a president decided to stop managing the problem and start confronting it. The people of the region noticed. I promise you — they noticed.
What most Americans never hear is what those people actually want. Not war. Not jihad. Not martyrdom. Across the Gulf, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan, 140 million people are under the age of 30. They want what any young American wants: a job, a stable country and a future that is not hostage to someone else’s ideology. New leaders in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kurdistan and Syria are building toward exactly that. When I sit with young professionals in Erbil or Riyadh or Dubai, they talk about startups. They talk about AI. They talk about opportunity.
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And this is not theory. Look at what happens when stability takes root. The UAE was empty desert 50 years ago. Today it is a global center of commerce where millions of people — including Americans — live, invest and build. The Kurdistan Region of Iraq, encircled by hostile forces, built one of the most open societies in the Middle East. It became the largest safe haven for persecuted Christians in the region. And despite a severe economic embargo by Iran-backed forces, Kurdistan built a stable, multi-billion-dollar economy that houses nearly all U.S. forces in Iraq. People move there because it works. These places are not exceptions. They are previews of what the entire region can become.
What stops it, every time, is the same force. Iran-backed armed groups in Lebanon, Iraq and Yemen — all taking orders from Tehran, all blocking the future the rest of the region is trying to build. For 45 years, one capital has exported instability to every corner of this region — not because Iranians want it, but because a small circle of men in power profit from it.
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The numbers tell the story. Since February 28, Iran has struck every country in the region that chose partnership with the West — and not one of them fired a shot at Iran. The UAE has absorbed more than 2,800 missiles and drones. Thirteen people were killed. Over 200 were wounded. Kurdistan has been hit more than 700 times. Fourteen dead — including a husband and wife killed at midnight, two daughters left behind. Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar — all struck. None of them threatened Iran. Their only offense is that they chose a different future.
These forces have not only been destroying the Middle East. They have been killing Americans for decades.
Every president before this one chose to look away. They minimized the threat. They told Americans it was under control. They left it for the next generation. But ignoring the Middle East always comes with a price. Obama pulled back from Iraq. ISIS filled the vacuum. His nuclear deal sent billions to Tehran and its proxy terror groups in Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and Yemen. Biden called it strategic patience. That patience gave us October 7. The problem never went away. It always got worse. This president made a different choice.
I grew up in this. I did not study it in a seminar. I know what a missile sounds like when it hits a neighborhood school. I know what families look like when they pack a car at 3 in the morning and drive toward the one city that is still standing. The fear across this region is not that America acted. It is that the world will lose interest before anything changes.
The Middle East is not a burden. It is a region of extraordinary talent, ambition and wealth held back by a violent few who have never been weaker than they are right now.
The people of this region have been asking the world to listen for decades. Perhaps now, it will.
Jewish student says campus antisemitism and London arson attacks show Britain is failing its Jewish community
Being a Jewish student in Britain today means living a kind of double life. I go to lectures. I take exams. I navigate seminar rooms and library queues like any other student. But unlike most of my peers, I do all of this while calculating: am I in danger because my Star of David or Kippah (Skull cap) is visible? Will speaking up in this discussion make me a target? Is today the day they'll be a demonstration outside?
Going to university is supposed to be a student’s main job. Right now, for many British Jewish students, it feels like a side gig — squeezed in around the exhausting, full-time business of simply being Jewish on campus.
My great-grandmother was Lily Ebert. She arrived at Auschwitz at just 20 years old. In a single day, her mother, her younger sister, her youngest brother and over one hundred members of her extended family were murdered — gassed and cremated, their ashes scattered with no grave, no place to mourn. That was July 1944.
She survived. She came to Britain to rebuild her life, and she did more than survive; she thrived. She built a large and loving family: ten grandchildren, thirty-eight great-grandchildren and even a great-great-grandchild in her final year. She believed Britain would be a safe haven. A place where her family could live openly and proudly as Jews. A country that has learned the lessons of history.
For decades, she traveled across the U.K. speaking in schools, and in her later years she used social media to warn young people that the Holocaust did not begin with violence. It began with words. With small actions. With a shifting atmosphere.
In her final months before she passed away in October 2024, my great-grandmother was horrified. Horrified to see the country she had trusted — after the greatest crime in history, beginning to fail at its most basic duty.
She was right to be horrified. And this week, her warnings feel more urgent than ever.
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British counterterrorism police are now investigating a wave of arson attacks against Jewish sites across London — four in as many days — probing whether Iranian proxies are responsible. Two synagogues and a Jewish charity were torched. And an Iran-linked group threatening to fly drones carrying hazardous substances at the Israeli embassy.
This all coming only a few weeks after ambulances belonging to a Jewish charity were set alight in Golders Green — one of the most Jewish areas in the U.K. Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis has warned that "a sustained campaign of violence and intimidation against the Jewish community of the U.K. is gathering momentum."
Prime Minister Keir Starmer has expressed surprise and called the attacks "abhorrent." But how can he possibly claim surprise? If you tolerate chants of "Globalize the Intifada," don't be surprised when the Intifada is globalized.
And throwing money at the problem simply is not a solution. You cannot pay your way out of an Intifada. And we cannot continue to besiege ourselves with security – living behind ever thicker doors and higher fences with barbed wire.
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This violence doesn't begin with arson. It begins with ideology — and until Britain starts tackling the ideology, no amount of policing or security will stop the flames.
That means banning Iran's IRGC, who may well be behind this very campaign of attacks. And it means confronting the Muslim Brotherhood, who are radicalizing young people across this country — on campuses, in mosques, in community centers — and may well be recruiting the people lighting these fires.
And it starts closer to home too, on campuses like mine, where week after week, masked demonstrators flood university spaces, chanting slogans that go far beyond political protest into something far darker. Jewish students are singled out in lectures, booed, shouted down, accused of being "baby killers" simply for being Jewish. Many now tuck away their Star of David necklaces and think twice before speaking up in seminars. A Jewish professor had his lecture stormed by masked protesters who screamed abuse, branded him a "war criminal," and — according to witnesses — threatened to behead him. His only crime was being Jewish and refusing to be intimidated.
And it is not just coming from the students. Too often, academics themselves are part of the problem. On my own campus, the medieval blood libel — the conspiracy that Jews use non-Jewish blood in their rituals — was repeated to students as fact, at one of supposedly the best universities in the U.K.
Beyond campus: an NHS doctor posts "gas the Jews" online and faces no meaningful consequences. Jewish artists are quietly dropped from programs. Jewish events are canceled without explanation. Protests where chants cross into open hatred are allowed to continue unchecked by police.
Individually, each moment can be explained away. Together, they reveal a slow and steady normalization of dangerous Jew-hatred.
In the past year alone, the U.K. recorded the highest number of violent antisemitic assaults per capita anywhere outside of Israel — roughly one for every 2,500 Jews. Jewish schools have warned students not to wear visible symbols on their commute. Jewish teenagers have been assaulted on public transport. Every Jewish institution now sits behind security barriers, guards and locked doors. We are a community under siege.
My great-grandmother spent her life warning that these things begin not with violence, but with silence. With small capitulations. With institutions that hedge, qualify and reach for the language of "context" and "balance" — as if balance is possible when a minority is being targeted.
Britain has a choice. It can honor the lessons it claims to have learned. Or it can allow that silence to continue — and discover, too late, where silence leads.
My great-grandmother, Lily Ebert, survived Auschwitz. She did not survive to see Britain become the country she fled.
Grieving mom hospitalized with rare ‘broken heart syndrome’ after veteran son’s suicide
A distraught mother who thought she was having a heart attack was instead hospitalized with broken heart syndrome — otherwise known as takotsubo syndrome (TTS) — less than a year after her veteran son tragically took his own life.
Dawn Turner, 57, of the U.K., lost her son in August of last year.
Just last month, the mom of three awoke with "unbearable" chest pains, she said — and called an ambulance, worried she was going into cardiac arrest. But when she arrived at the hospital, doctors told her she was suffering from the effects of grief caused by a broken heart, as news agency SWNS reported.
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TTS is a temporary, reversible heart condition often triggered by extreme emotional or physical stress, such as grief, fear or severe illness, according to experts.
Symptoms usually mimic a heart attack, with sudden and severe chest pain and shortness of breath the most common — and it primarily affects women over the age of 50.
Turner, of Eckington in Worcester, said, "I was [sitting] downstairs earlier that night and thought I had a bit of indigestion. I went to bed and just couldn’t get comfortable — I was breaking out in a sweat and had heart palpitations.
"Then, around midnight, I had pain down my arm and in my jaw. I was still putting it down to indigestion ... My partner Paul asked me if I was all right, and I said, ‘I think I'm having a heart attack.'"
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She said she couldn't catch her breath — "and my heart felt as though it was missing a beat and then [started] thudding again. For those moments, I truly believed I was having a heart attack."
She said her partner called emergency services, and an ambulance arrived within five minutes.
"They came in and linked me up to an ECG. They said, ‘Your heart is all over the place — there’s an extra beat, and it’s all over the place,’" she said, as SWNS reported.
Turner was rushed to the hospital by ambulance.
In emergency care, Turner was also given blood tests.
She added, "They came back and said I didn’t have the enzymes produced from a heart attack in my blood. But they said there [was] something going on."
After undergoing more tests and seeing a cardiologist, Turner was told she had takotsubo syndrome.
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"I told [the doctor] that my heart feels broken. I told her about [my son] Rob, and she said it’s exactly that. She said it’s a real thing, and that I'd been under so much stress. The body can only take so much, and the grief and the stress can be quite physical."
Turner's son committed suicide in August 2025 after struggling to get help with his mental health.
He spent 10 years in the Royal Horse Artillery after joining in 2006, when he worked as an artilleryman.
He did two tours of duty in Afghanistan, she said, and returned to civilian life in 2016 before suffering several worsening health conditions.
Turner, who is also the CEO of a veterans charity called Stepway, "When he left the army, he got married, and they settled down in London. He walked straight into a job as a delivery driver. But then his health took a downward spiral, and he started having digestive troubles."
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He was eventually told he had PTSD — but those symptoms may be similar to those of mild traumatic brain injury, Turner said.
"He was deaf in one ear from using the guns," she said. "He realized he was putting so much pressure on his marriage, so he moved back up with me. He started to build himself up — then COVID hit."
Turner said there were unfortunate delays as her son tried to get access to various services and facilities.
"When people lose loved ones, you’re obviously distraught, but you eventually find closure," she said, per SWNS. "I found peace when I lost my sister in 2015. But with Rob, I can't find closure because there’s no justice there."
Turner is now on the mend and hopes to be fully recovered in a couple of weeks, SWNS reported.
"Until that moment, I had never really understood that a person could become so overwhelmed by stress and grief that it physically affects the heart," she shared. "Broken heart syndrome can look and feel like a heart attack. It was a warning sign for me, and for anyone. It can change the shape of one of your heart chambers … it can cause some serious damage."
She added, "The cardiologist told me that thankfully, my heart itself is healthy and there was no damage, but that it will take around two weeks to a month for my heart to reboot itself."
Turner was told she needed to rest, seek counseling and make lifestyle changes to reduce stress.
"Things have settled down, and I’m taking things easy — I’m pacing myself now, and I feel a lot better. Paul said, 'Maybe the extra beat is for Rob. You are carrying on living for him.'"
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Turner said, "That broke me and healed me a little bit all at once."
Fox News Digital previously reported that broken heart syndrome, which causes the heart to temporarily weaken, has been linked to the brain’s reaction to stress, as studies have found.
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In an article published in the European Heart Journal in March 2019, Swiss researchers said they found that the syndrome is linked to the way the brain communicates with the heart.
Caused by intense emotional events, TTS is a rare, temporary condition that weakens the left ventricle and disrupts its normal pumping function.
The syndrome causes the heart's main pumping chamber to change shape and get larger. The heart muscle becomes weaker, and its pumping action loses strength.
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Symptoms include sudden, intense chest pain, pressure or heaviness in the chest, along with shortness of breath.
It is treated with beta blockers and blood-thinning medicine to reduce risks of clots and other flareups.
Michele Tafoya blames George Floyd riots as 'turning point' for Minnesota downfall under Tim Walz
Senate candidate Michele Tafoya says Minnesota isn’t the "paradise" it used to be, arguing Gov. Tim Walz’s response to the riots following George Floyd's death made residents embarrassed of their home state.
"When the George Floyd riots happened, which was really a turning point in Minnesota, [Walz] didn't do anything for days," Tafoya said on the "Planet Tyrus" podcast. "If people remember, the governor was nowhere."
Tafoya, a former NFL sideline reporter, is currently running for a U.S. Senate seat in Minnesota. She characterized Walz's behavior during the 2020 unrest following George Floyd's death as part of a pattern of "incompetence" that she claims led the state into decline.
Floyd’s death ignited a nationwide reckoning as multiple cities saw protests, with some devolving into violence and looting. In Minneapolis, where Floyd was killed, rioters set fire to the city's Third Police Precinct.
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Tafoya argued Walz "let the police station burn down" and "kept police officers from doing their jobs and protecting people here in Minnesota."
At the time, Walz was criticized for what some saw as hesitation to send in the National Guard to calm the situation. However, the governor has consistently defended the state’s response.
"I’m proud of Minnesota’s response; I’m proud of Minnesota’s first responders who were out there, from firefighters to police to the National Guard, to citizens that were out there," Walz said during a previous gubernatorial debate, as reported by the Associated Press.
But Tafoya disagrees, arguing that the handling of the riots tarnished the reputation of the state. She said many Minnesotans no longer feel pride in their state.
"They're kind of embarrassed to say where they're from. And that's really sad, because honestly, we used to brag about being Minnesotans," she said.
Tafoya also criticized Walz over the fraud scandal that has rocked the state in recent months, involving an estimated billions in estimated lost taxpayer funds. She accused the governor of allowing the theft to happen under his watch, saying he has "overseen the complete destruction of a once great state."
Walz addressed the fraud allegations during a March House Oversight Committee hearing. He told lawmakers, "I’m going to prosecute every single person that’s involved in fraud, but we can’t do it alone."
He then argued that the federal government’s focus on Minnesota was part of "political retribution at an unparalleled scale."
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Mets’ losing streak moves to 12 games after painful collapse vs Twins
The light at the end of the New York Mets’ clubhouse tunnel appeared bright after Francisco Lindor hit a three-run home run in the bottom of the third inning, and starter Nolan McLean was mowing down Minnesota Twins batters, taking a no-hitter into the sixth inning.
The Mets’ losing streak, sitting at 11 games as their returned home on Tuesday, the longest it’s been for the franchise since 2004, was on the way to ending at Citi Field.
Until it wasn’t.
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McLean’s no-hitter ended when Matt Wallner singled to lead off the sixth inning, but the young starter who was featured in Team USA’s World Baseball Classic rotation was able to get the next two batters out. But his Team USA teammate, center fielder Byron Buxton, gave all Mets fans a "here we go again" moment when he hammered a two-run homer to left field to cut New York’s lead to just one run.
McLean came out to the mound for the top of the seventh inning instead of manager Carlos Mendoza going to the bullpen, and Luke Keaschall tied the game after singling home Kody Clemens, who doubled to right field just an at-bat prior. It was a 3-3 ball game, and just like that, the Mets’ losing streak was getting close to extension.
The wheels fell off in the top of the ninth inning, as reliever Devin Williams, who has struggled in his previous two outings, ensured the losing streak continued.
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Williams walked Josh Bell and Ryan Jeffers to begin the inning, and Kody Clemens’ sacrifice bunt ended with the bases loaded after the Mets were unable to secure an out. Then, Keaschall came through with yet another clutch single, scoring James Outman with the eventual game-winning run.
Williams’ lack of control cost him once more following the Twins’ first lead of the night, walking Wallner to allow a free run to trot home from third base. It could’ve been even worse if not for Austin Warren coming into the game and striking out all three Twins he faced to stop the bleeding.
But, with a two-run deficit in the bottom of the ninth inning, the Mets couldn’t muster their own come-from-behind magic. Luis Torrens struck out, Francisco Alvarez lined out to right field, and Tyrone Taylor struck out swinging. In fact, the Mets didn’t have a hit in the final five innings of the loss.
Now, for the first time since 2002, the Mets, owners of the highest payroll in MLB at around $334 million, have lost 12 straight games.
Some fans entered the stadium wearing paper bags on their heads with drawn tears flowing from their eye cutouts. There may have been a moment where they were close to taking them off, but this is simply the way things are going for the Mets at the moment.
"They're not going to be happy, that's not a secret," Mendoza said before Tuesday’s loss, per ESPN. "Our fan base, they're going to let you know when you're not playing well."
This is a Mets team with playoff expectations, but their losing streak has them with a 7-16 record – tied for the worst in MLB with the Kansas City Royals.
New York will try it all again tomorrow in Flushing, Queens, with Clay Holmes getting the start for the Mets. And perhaps the latest sliver of hope for fans is that Juan Soto, their superstar outfielder, is expected to return to the lineup after dealing with a calf strain.
Mike Vrabel addressed Dianna Russini saga with Patriots players differently than he did with reporters
Before Mike Vrabel made his first public statement about the Dianna Russini saga in front of some reporters on Tuesday, he addressed it privately with club ownership earlier and with his players on Monday.
And the message was predictably different.
His discussion with reporters – both at a podium and later as they huddled around when he sat in a chair – did not include any explanation of what actually happened or didn't between him and the NFL reporter for The Athletic. It also didn't include any apology to, well, anyone.
Vrabel’s talk with players was more candid.
He addressed the issue in the first team meeting of the offseason conditioning program "from the jump," one player who was present texted OutKick.
And Vrabel indeed did apologize to them – or at least it felt that way to this player – for the unwanted attention the issue has brought on the team at a time he wants all the attention on the players working to get better and the ones about to be selected in the NFL Draft this week.
"He mentioned how we all on a journey together," the player said, "and sometimes we fail but we got to be prepared to keep going together no matter what. We knew what he was talking about."
A former Patriots player who said he heard from people in the meeting said his understanding is that Vrabel "showed accountability."
But how exactly that was articulated remains vague.
No, Vrabel apparently did not share any salacious details or deny worst thoughts about the Page Six article that became a national story two weeks ago. That story included the married coach sunbathing with the married Russini at a pool, spending time together in a hot tub, then holding hands and embracing on the roof of a private bungalow days before the NFL annual meeting in Arizona.
It might be argued that Vrabel doesn’t owe anyone outside his family any details. Not even his locker room of players. What they have to know is he feels he let them down by possibly making their jobs harder and he’s sorry for that.
Vrabel admitted to reporters he met with Patriots principal owner, chairman and CEO Robert Kraft and his son and team president Jonathan Kraft about the Russini story.
While he had previously said he’d had "difficult conversations with people I care about," and included "the organization" as part of that, he said his talk with the Krafts was not necessarily difficult.
Vrabel, by the way, declined to address Russini losing her job when she resigned from The Athletic.
The hope for the Patriots is that this subject will fade into memory sooner than later. That may happen unless players start to add more details about the meeting or give opinions about the story.
There’s also the possibility Russini re-emerges and discusses the matter, or The Athletic unveils the findings of an investigation it publicly announced as underway.
Even if that happens, it is at this point unlikely Vrabel will address the matter any further.
Former Yale coaches speak out against athletic director to student newspaper
Disgruntlement continues to leak out of the Yale athletic department.
Yale University's student newspaper, The Yale Daily News, reported that eight former university coaches and athletic staff members "backed" the complaints shared in a letter from former Yale hockey coach Keith Allain to President Maurie McInnis.
The letter, which was first reported by Fox News Digital on March 23, alleged Yale athletic director Vicky Chun fostered a "toxic environment."
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"Vicky Chun is the absolute worst leader I have ever been around in my life. She is dishonest, self centered and inaccessible. Vicky’s singular talent is self promotion and has created a toxic environment within the department where she is insulated by a cadre of administrators whose main task seems to be silencing any dissent," Allain's letter read.
The Yale Daily News reported that eight of 12 anonymous former coaches and staffers interviewed agreed with Allain that Chun has created a "culture of fear."
McInnis told the student newspaper that "many people" have sent letters about Chun as the university considers whether to renew her contract.
The status of Chun's contract renewal has become a topic of uncertainty after a Fox News Digital investigative series into Yale's athletic department under her leadership. Yale has not responded to Fox News Digital's inquiry on the status of Chun's contract renewal.
Fox News Digital's investigative series also found that, under Chun's leadership, former Yale strength and conditioning coach Thomas Newman's lawyers alleged that he was unknowingly recorded and was "ultimately forced out"; a woman's track and field athlete left her program due to an alleged "toxic culture"; and two of Yale's top athletic officials bought a house together a year before one of them was hired by the university, while a former employee was allegedly pushed to retire to open a job for one of those officials.
Ann-Marie Guglieri, Yale's executive deputy director/chief operating officer of athletics, and Mary Berdo, deputy director of athletics, the second- and third-ranked positions in the department under Chun, purchased a house together in Milford, Connecticut, in June 2018, the deed shows. Berdo was then hired by the university in April 2019.
Two former employees of the Yale athletics department have alleged that Guglieri and Berdo are in a romantic relationship. Additional former employees have alleged a former administrator was pressured to accept a voluntary retirement package, which then created an opening for Berdo.
Two former employees said the athletics department could not increase its headcount to hire Berdo at the same time it hired Guglieri. But Fox News Digital learned that a former athletics department administrator reluctantly accepted a voluntary retirement package, and then Berdo was hired shortly thereafter.
The former senior associate athletic director was allegedly given "no choice" but to accept the voluntary retirement package in the fall of 2018, creating a vacancy in the department’s front office prior to Berdo’s hiring, according to a former Yale Athletics employee with firsthand knowledge of the situation.
"A senior associate athletic director was called in October of 2018 and was pressured to accept a retirement package, and this person had no choice but to take this retirement package and give 90-day notice, and just after the 90-day notice, Mary Berdo was hired," the former employee said.
Allain told Fox News Digital that the former employee’s recollection of the pressured retirement and eventual hiring of Berdo is consistent with what he had been told by individuals within the athletics department.
While Yale declined to comment "on individual personnel matters," a spokesman for the university president’s office told Fox News Digital: "We can confirm that Yale has a robust set of personnel and disclosure policies that it followed."
Chun, a former volleyball player and later head coach for Colgate University, took over as Yale athletic director in 2018 after serving in the same position at Colgate from 2012-18.
In an interview earlier in March with the Yale Alumni Association, Chun admitted to making a mistake that made her cry in her first year as Yale AD.
"I was talking to the football alums, you know, there's this great helmet that I had at my previous institution. And I thought if Colgate can afford it, we definitely can afford it. So I announced, we are getting these coolest, custom-made Riddell helmets. So then my deputy comes to me and says ‘What are you thinking? Do you know how much these helmets cost?' And I said, ‘Yeah, we had them at Colgate.’ She goes, ‘Yeah, like six or seven of them,’" Chun said in the interview.
"And I did cry. Because I thought, ‘Wow, this is going to be the shortest-lived athletic director,’ and, you know, here I am!"
Fox News Digital has reached out to Yale for further comment but has not received a response.
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