Report: Accuser Backtracks on Recant re Kevin Clash

November 19, 2012 Hot Topics

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The trouble on Sesame Street isn’t over yet. The man who claimed he had underage sex with Kevin Clash, and then recanted to say it was “an adult consensual relationship,” now states he was pressured to change his story.

TMZ reports Sheldon Stephens, 23, signed a settlement agreement for $125,000, in which "Stephens agrees that immediately upon execution of this Agreement, his counsel, Andreozzi & Associates, P.C., shall release the [following] statement ... 'He [Stephens] wants it to be known that his sexual relationship with Mr. Clash was an adult consensual relationship.'"

Stephens now says he didn’t want to sign the agreement, was literally crying in the negotiations, and stands by his original story that he had sex with Clash when he was 16. Stephens is currently interviewing new lawyers to undo the settlement.

Clash's lawyer told TMZ Friday he would have no comment on the settlement story.

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gillian

186 days ago

SO what did he realize? It wasn't enuf money? These cases are in the news EVERY day and the victims don't recant their stories because they want to see the offender punished. This one has money in his face, allegedly, recants his story. Goes home, prob talks to his friends who egg him on about not enuf money so he recants his recant... Something sounds wrong with this one.. How come NO OTHER victims?

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carinberg

187 days ago

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Janice

187 days ago

Did he take the money and then come out with this statement? Hmmmmm sounds very fishy.

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