Skylar Diggins garnered national attention when she led Notre Dame’s Women Basketball team to the Final Four earlier this month.
Pop stars Chris Brown and Lil Wayne both tweeted her well wishes before her championship game. Lil Wayne took things a step further by sending out a flirtatious tweet, “Let’s go Notre Dame! Let’s go @skydigg4! Wifey! You are a winner in my book regardless.”
In a matter of days, her Twitter followers grew by nearly 90,000. Lil Wayne even wore Diggins’ jersey during a recent concert.
But late Friday night, Diggins experienced the down side of fame when a picture of a nude woman that looks like Diggins was released online.
Diggins responded quickly by tweeting, “Gotta clear this up. I don’t know what pic is going around, but that is NOT ME. I don’t know who is going around trying to defame my character, but it’s sad. The people that know me and love me know that I would never handle myself in such a careless and classless manner. I can truly say I am hurt by this. I don’t believe how someone could attempt to ruin my name [by] being untrue. I am stronger than this though.” –a.r.
