Shannon Sharpe had damaged his silence following his release from ESPN after settling a authorized case that accused him of rape.

 “I’m sure everybody’s heard the news by now that I will not be returning to ESPN,” Sharpe stated on his Nightcap podcast.

“I found out this information a little earlier in the week, and really the only thing that I really asked is, ‘Guys, could we wait until Monday? My brother’s going into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, I really want it to be about him and I want it to be about my family,” Sharpe stated. “I said, ‘This coming out will overshadow everything he’s worked his entire life for.’ And, unfortunately, it didn’t happen that way.”

He additionally apologized to his older brother, Sterling Sharpe, who can be a former NFL star who shall be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame this coming weekend.  He hoped that the information wouldn’t be made public till after the ceremony. 

“I really want it to be about him and I want it to be about my family… This coming out will overshadow everything he’s worked his entire life for,” Shannon Sharpe stated. “I just wish this thing could have waited until Monday.”

In April, Sharpe was named in a civil lawsuit filed in Nevada alleging that he dedicated assault, sexual assault, sexual battery, and battery. When the go well with grew to become public, 

While he now not shall be on ESPN, Sharpe has tens of millions of subscribers to his podcasts Nightcap and Club Shay Shay.