News : Sheryl Crow 'The Truth Will Set You Free'
News : Sheryl Crow 'The Truth Will Set You Free'
Sheryl Crow, the former flame of Lance Armstrong, apparently appreciates that the shamed cyclist has come clean.
But does she also know more to the doping scandal than she’s letting on?
“I think that honesty is always the best bet and that the truth will set you free,” Crow, 50, told “Entertainment Tonight” in a preview of an interview airing Tuesday.
The “Strong Enough” singer started dating Armstrong, 41, in 2003. They were engaged in 2005 but broke up the following year.
“To carry around a weight like that would be devastating in the long run,” Crow added.
She said she caught “bits and pieces” of Armstrong’s much-hyped interview with Oprah Winfrey last week.
He acknowledged that he used performance-enhancing drugs in his quest to become an American cycling champion. He claimed he stopped doping in 2005 and was clean in his 2009 and 2010 races.
He was banned from all competition for life after a U.S. Anti-Doping Agency report called him the drug kingpin of the “most sophisticated, professionalized and successful doping program that sport has ever seen.”
According to Celebuzz, Crow was named in affidavits submitted to the agency last year.
Armstrong's teammate, Frankie Andreu, and his wife, Betsy, claimed they were in a hospital room in 1996 when Armstrong admitted to doctors that he used performance-enhancing drugs.
Some time in 2004, when a book linked Armstrong to doping, Andreu said the cycling champ approached him about having his wife retract a statement that he confessed to doctors eight years earlier.
“His girlfriend at the time, Sheryl Crow, was in the room and I felt uncomfortable talking about this in front of her so I did not say much,” Frankie Andreu said in the signed affidavit, according to Celebuzz.
The Grammy winner has been relatively quiet about Armstrong’s fall from grace since the explosive report. An attorney for the songbird declined to comment about her cooperating with last year's investigation of her ex-beau.
She told Katie Couric last year that she “felt bad” about what he was going through.
“I felt bad for [Armstrong], I felt bad for his family and I kinda felt like the rest of America,” she said.
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