Dianna Russini’s Comeback Takes a New Turn After Analyst Calls Out Her Comments on Mike Vrabel Controversy (Getty Images)
Russini stepped down April 14 after photos of her with the Patriots head coach surfaced. Older photos of the pair, taken March 11, 2020, at a New York City bar, resurfaced and were published in April. Because it wasn’t helping us heal, once we realized nothing was going to stop this, it became unhealthy for us to read it.
Stillman called her recent People magazine interview about the Mike Vrabel scandal “so shameful” and said she is not the victim. Her new weekly show, “The Russini Report,” premieres November 11 on BetUS. Russini told the magazine that the story spun out of her control. It was piling on and adding to what we were already dealing with,” she said. But when Vrabel gets up there, and he tells you that he’s hurt a lot of people that he’s really close with, he’s admitting that he did what he did,” the analyst said. Russini also said it “quickly went from just one moment that people felt was true and erased years of work. “This isn’t something that everybody else did,” he said. “This is something you did.”
Dianna Russini returns to sports media Wednesday, but analyst Jared Stillman is already pushing back. Both denied any impropriety. Stillman’s criticism lands one day before that debut, and it centers on a single question: what exactly did she say was a lie? “The lies became so out of control. This was a runaway train, and there was nothing I could do to stop it. “Dianna doesn’t even do that in her People magazine exclusive interview. Mike Vrabel addressed it; granted, in his own way. Stillman asked whether she meant only the Arizona photos. “One moment? The moment in Arizona? What about the moment in New York? What about all the other moments? Russini stayed away from sports media. The Athletic found her undisclosed relationship with Vrabel broke its standards, though it did not rule on whether it was romantic. She is back with a one-hour live NFL show on the BetUS TV website and the platform’s X account, built around gambling analysis, game previews and matchup breakdowns. Stillman was unmoved by her talk of family support.