Kelly Stafford said the sports world is “dramatic as hell” while discussing the discourse surrounding UNC football coach Bill Belichick and his 24-year-old girlfriend Jordon Hudson.
During the latest installment of her “The Morning After” podcast, the wife of Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford agreed with her co-host, Hank Winchester, who said it was “unacceptable” for Hudson to interrupt Belichick’s recent interview with “CBS Sunday Mornings” when the subject shifted to their relationship.
However, Stafford explained that the topic was “fair game” because Hudson is public about her and the 73-year-old Belichick’s relationship on social media for the public to see.
“Bill Belichick, you never really saw him much in the social media platform stuff and now he’s everywhere with her,” Stafford, 35, said. “So I do think there is a little bit of responsibility in knowing that, for her knowing that questions are going to be asked because they are so public with their relationship.
“Honesty, I don’t mind, I think it’s fair game both ways. If she doesn’t want to talk about it, then they don’t have to talk about it… This whole thing is very interesting to me.
“I just think the whole sports world in general right now is dramatic as hell. And I understand that these guys are not just athletes. We know this. But at the same time, they are athletes.
“Why is everything so damn dramatic?”
Belichick and Hudson are at the center of a media firestorm after she interrupted his “CBS Sunday Mornings” interview, which aired April 27.
The former cheerleader at Bridgewater State University stopped Belichick from answering CBS’s Tony Dokoupil’s question about how they met.
After that moment went viral, multiple reports said Hudson is overly involved in and controlling Belichick’s career — and acting as his representative at UNC and beyond.
Belichick, in a joint statement with UNC, said Wednesday that Hudson wasn’t trying to control his CBS interview but instead “doing her job,” and they were under the impression the interview topics would focus the interview solely on his new book, “The Art of Winning: Lessons from My Life in Football,” which releases May 6.
The former NFL coach, nor UNC have publicly confirmed if Hudson is an employee of the university.
During her Monday podcast, Kelly went on to discuss the 2025 NFL Draft, which took place last week in Green Bay and centered mostly around Shedeur Sanders, who dropped to the fifth round with the 144th overall pick to the Cleveland Browns.
“I mean the whole draft was a scene from [the former TV show] ‘90210,’” she said. “It had nothing to do with the people that were getting drafted it. It had everything to do with all the side stories.”
Kelly also mentioned the drama surrounding the Eagles’ visit to White House to celebrate their victory over the Chiefs in Super Bowl 2025 — and how people on social media went after Saquon Barkley for spending time with President Donald Trump, as well as Jalen Hurts for skipping the event.
“… You know what social media has f–ked us because everybody knows everyone’s business and everyone has a comment about it,” Kelly added.
