Racial slurs, groin kicks: Ex-Vol Haynesworth alleges abuse by ex-Lady Vol Jackson

Former University of Tennessee football star Albert Haynesworth is opening up about his tumultuous relationship with former Lady Vols basketball player Brittany Jackson, alleging she repeatedly used racial slurs and physically abused him.

In a series of Twitter posts on Wednesday, the former NFL star detailed what he called "The Ugly Truth About Brittany," with whom he has a son.

The football player-turned failed Knoxville burger store owner wrote that Jackson called him the n-word "on numerous occasions" because "she wanted me to feel hurt bc I didn't show her affection."

Haynesworth alleged Jackson became "extremely violent where more than 10 times in Tennessee and Florida I ... called the police to restrain her."

One of those calls occurred on Jan. 10 in Southeast Knox County.

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Sheriff's deputies responded about 1:30 a.m. to a home on Kimberlin Heights Road, where Haynesworth said Jackson — who had been drinking wine — kicked the former 320-pound defensive tackle twice in the groin during an argument, according to a report from the Knox County Sheriff's Office.

Haynesworth refused medical attention, and Jackson had left the home before deputies arrived, the report reads. Haynesworth didn't file charges in that case, KCSO spokeswoman Martha Dooley said.

"Yes I have witnesses and bruises but me (sic) for some reason still tried to protect her by not sending her to jail bc I didn't want to ruin her so called career and name," Haynesworth wrote in one tweet.

Haynesworth also alleged on Twitter that "MOST" of the money given to Jackson's Alzheimer's event "goes right in her pocket. That's why she wants the checks written to her foundation and not the Chattanooga Alzheimer's foundation."

Jackson has organized several celebrity basketball games in Bradley County, where she grew up. The events aim to raise money to help find a cure for Alzheimer's, which plagued famed Lady Vols basketball coach Pat Summitt until she died in June 2016.

TMZ reported Jackson has accused Haynesworth of skipping child-support payments, but didn't specify when or how those accusations were made.

Jackson and Haynesworth did not return requests for comment Wednesday.

The 6-foot-tall Jackson started on Summitt's team from 2001-04. The Lady Vols reached the Final Four of the NCAA tournament every year during that period, and played in the national championship game in 2003 and 2004.

After playing for the Vols under coach Phillip Fulmer, Haynesworth was drafted in the first round of the 2002 NFL draft and played seven seasons with the Tennessee Titans.

When the Titans hosted the Dallas Cowboys in 2006, Haynesworth kicked off the helmet of Andre Gurode, then stomped on his face, causing the Cowboys' offensive lineman to get 30 stitches under his right eye. Haynesworth was ejected and suspended for an unprecedented five games. He apologized to Gurode, and the two later became friends.

The former Vol went on to play brief stints for the Washington Redskins, the New England Patriots and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers before being released in 2012.

In 2013, Haynesworth brought BurgerFi, a Florida-based burger chain, to Knoxville's Cumberland Avenue. His franchise is now closed.

Both Jackson and Haynesworth have had run-ins with the law.

In 2010, Jackson pleaded guilty to simple assault after she and her sister Lindsey got in a fight with another woman on the campus of Tennessee Wesleyan College in Athens. Jackson was charged with DUI weeks later when she reportedly crashed into another vehicle at a traffic stop and left the scene.

Haynesworth in 2015 pleaded guilty in a Knox County court to a reckless boating charge. In 2011, he was charged with assault after he allegedly punched a man during a traffic altercation. That charge was dropped following a settlement. Later that year, he pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor assault charge after a waitress in Washington, D.C., accused him of groping her.

Reporter Travis Dorman can be reached at 865-342-6315 or at travis.dorman@knoxnews.com. Follow him on Twitter @travdorman.