Hugh Freeze’s Troubling Alleged DM To Liberty Student Goes Viral
Hugh Freeze’s Troubling Alleged DM To Liberty Student Goes Viral
Liberty head football coach Hugh Freeze found himself mired in controversy this week.
Chelsea Andrews, who describes herself as L.U.’s 2015 Sr. class president and sexual assault victim, outed Freeze’s alleged DMs to her in a very public Twitter thread.
Her posts largely speak for themselves:
Why is the head football coach at Liberty University DMing me during and after my lawsuit with LU?
At almost midnight.
When I didn’t tag him.
& I haven’t responded to the other DMs he’s sent over the months
Publicly naming so he can see that I don’t want direct contact w/ him pic.twitter.com/K3icZAuops
— Chelsea Andrews (@chelsandrews) July 10, 2022
“Why didn’t you speak up?”
😑😑😑😑😑😑😑😑😑 https://t.co/cixMhcEcB7
— Chelsea Andrews (@chelsandrews) July 10, 2022
Now a ****fake**** Liberty football player fan Twitter account is DMing me about Hugh Freeze midnight DMing me??? Wtf. 😵💫
Boys, lock this ish down. I’m the one who got raped at LU.
(Again, this is a fan account. Not defaming this player. Maybe he can speak to the account.) pic.twitter.com/Q4Ojj9fBlK
— Chelsea Andrews (@chelsandrews) July 10, 2022
Right. Because a head football coach DMing a
1) public RAPE VICTIM
2) who went through a LAWSUIT
3) with his current employer
4) to defend a man with another college athletics scandal… is a good idea. And ethical. And Christlike.
— Chelsea Andrews (@chelsandrews) July 10, 2022
I want the Department of Education investigation to make you remember this moment.
The refusal to hear new information and process it is concerning.
I love my alma mater and all media I’ve ever done will support that.
I don’t love Hugh Freeze DMing me to defend Ian McCaw.
— Chelsea Andrews (@chelsandrews) July 10, 2022
I have no idea what’s been going on with half of this stuff today.
I’m not from the athletics world.
But the “hey coach when you read this” Tweets give me life. Y’all know the routine! https://t.co/XhVYWWqOZh
— Chelsea Andrews (@chelsandrews) July 10, 2022
Establishing boundaries is something that is often difficult for sexual assault survivors.
To the people telling me I was wrong to screenshot a DM, what else would you have me do?
Forced empathy. (I’m not walking on eggshells when something makes me uncomfortable anymore.)
— Chelsea Andrews (@chelsandrews) July 10, 2022
THANK YOU.
I’m not trying to be “pick me girl.”
As a sexual assault survivor I actually don’t like interacting with people from the inside unless I know they are safe.
I have clinical PTSD.
How about LOOK AT HIM is what I did.
“I’m uncomfortable” is what I did. https://t.co/ICNtIRKuuo— Chelsea Andrews (@chelsandrews) July 10, 2022
Yikes.
Liberty was recently at the center of some pretty ugly legal action that accused the university of improperly handling sexual assault allegations.
Two of the women involved with the lawsuit, one of which was Andrews, spoke out about the matter in a TV interview with Inside Edition last November:
All in all, this is just a bad look for the school and for Freeze.
This has been a pretty crazy time for college football as a whole. Between massive superstar Heisman frontrunners getting exposed for their bizarre bedroom fetishes, college coaches finding themselves in ugly circumstances with beautiful young blondes, and respected universities being accused of playing stars based on race – it has been one problem after another.
Yikes. https://t.co/b4rXcQN5fm
— Game 7 (@game7__) July 10, 2022
This is just par for the course.
How will Freeze and Liberty University as a whole respond to this weird viral drama?
Time will tell.
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A longtime sports reporter, Carlos Garcia has written about some of the biggest and most notable athletic events of the last 5 years. He has been credentialed to cover MLS, NBA and MLB games all over the United States. His work has been published on Fox Sports, Bleacher Report, AOL and the Washington Post.
