NASCAR driver Jeremy Mayfield, who was revealed yesterday to have tested positive a second time for methamphetamine during a July 6th test, had some awesomely extreme words for his stepmother, who claimed that she had personally witnessed Mayfield using meth more than 30 times over a seven year period, in an affidavit that was filed to the court that had overturned Mayfield’s suspension after concluding, based on the levels of meth he tested positive for, “the test results would only be accurate if Mayfield were a habitual meth user.”
Uh… yeah… and clearly that’s impossible?
Now Mayfield has hit back at his stepmother:
"She's basically a whore," he told ESPN.com's David Newton. "She shot and killed my dad."
Mayfield's father, Terry, died in 2007 at age 56 of what the Chapel Hill, N.C., medical examiner called a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest. Nevertheless, Mayfield told ESPN.com on Wednesday that his stepmother will be served with a wrongful death suit on Thursday.
"She knows what we've got on her," Mayfield said. "For her to come out and do this is pretty ballsy. Everybody that's ever known me knows I never, ever have been around her for more than 10 hours of my life. She's a gold digger. I knew that from Day 1."
Although he said he has no proof, Mayfield claimed that NASCAR paid Lisa Mayfield for her affidavit.
"It wouldn't take much money. She tried to get money from me," Mayfield said. "I have a very short fuse when it comes to her."
Normally this would be the point where I scoff, but in a story this full of redneck insanity, who the hell knows who might be telling the truth. Where’s Judge Judy when you need her? (Hmmm… is Judge Judy even still on? Did I just make a pop culture reference from 1998? Anyway…)
NASCAR wasn’t spared in Mayfield’s rant either. “They're playing this high school [expletive], they better be ready,” he added. “I'm coming after them in a big way. I'm prepared to go all the way and have the backing to do it if it takes everything I've got. I'm not going to back down for something I didn't do.”
Something, you know, he didn’t do habitually for years, and twice test positive for, that is.