Tyreek Hill apologizes for language in audio recording
Kansas City Chiefs receiver Tyreek Hill spoke to the media at training camp on Sunday for the first time following a turbulent offseason.
While he wouldn't go into detail about the child abuse allegation against him and the subsequent investigations, Hill did make a statement about the audio of a conversation between him and his former fiancee, Crystal Espinal, that emerged in April.
In the recording, Hill and Espinal are discussing their three-year-old son and the incident that resulted in the boy suffering a broken arm. Hill is heard telling Espinal, "You need to be terrified of me, too, bitch."
"I'm just here to man up to what I did, on the audio, my bad language. Im'ma man up to that," Hill said during the media scrum. "I don't want nobody talking to my little sister, my daughter that I have now, my mom like that. That's very disrespectful.
"Never again. I'm growing as a human being, as a person. Never again."
Hill also addressed the portion of the tape in which he and Espinal referenced the wideout punching his son in the chest.
"Punching my son in the chest? That would probably refer to me teaching my son how to box," he said.
"Sometimes things get thrown out of context when feelings get involved. But I'm not going to get into all that right now."
Hill thanked his teammates - who he worked out with during the offseason - as well as the Chiefs organization and NFL commissioner Roger Goodell. He avoided a suspension after the investigations concluded.
"I have to work on my life skills," he added, according to NFL Network's Andrew Siciliano.
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Hill added that he didn't know the 11-minute audio recording existed until it came out. #ChiefsKingdom pic.twitter.com/jplm2QQzVt
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