Bernstein implied that the Seahawks quarterback could be gay on WSCR-AM’s “Boers & Bernstein” when a listener asked whether God told Wilson to abstain in his previous marriage with Ashton Meem, who was rumored to have had an affair with former Seahawks receiver Golden Tate.
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“If you start to piece this all together, I think you come away with a pretty easy-to-reach conclusion here,” Bernstein said during a long-winded segment, as transcribed by Yahoo Sports. “The whole thing. Don’t you? Don’t you just wish he could feel comfortable enough to be a little more truthful with all of it?
“Put the pieces together. The whole Russell Wilson thing — all of the artifice here. Everything that’s going on. All the strangeness. All of the stuff with the first wife, and the discomfort there … and this isn’t a new pattern.”
Bernstein continued:
“And I understand there were times past where you felt you had to live a lie. This isn’t that time. This is quite the opposite of that; you don’t have to live a lie. You don’t have to be artificial.”
Bernstein doesn’t outright calls Wilson gay during the segment, nor does he say being gay would be a bad thing. But it’s fairly obvious that’s what he was insinuating, and his comments are sure to drum up some controversy.
