Charles Barkley raises concerns for Bill Belichick as former NFL coach's personal life thrust into spotlight

Bill Belichick's much-discussed romance with Jordon Hudson returned to halfway signifier pursuing a high-profile tv interview.

Belichick's girlfriend, Jordon Hudson, was accused of attempting to asseverate her power during the erstwhile NFL coach's sit-down with "CBS News Sunday Morning." The interrogation was portion of a promotional circuit for Bilichick's caller book, "The Art of Winning — Lessons from My Life successful Football."

Figures crossed the sports satellite and beyond person shared their thoughts successful the days since the scrutinized interview. On Wednesday, erstwhile NBA prima and existent broadcaster Charles Barkley became 1 of the latest to measurement successful connected the situation.

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College hoops expert Charles Barkley connected aerial earlier the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament Final Four title game. (Mitchell Layton/Getty Images)

During an interrogation with longtime sports broadcaster Dan Patrick, Barkley described Belichick arsenic 1 of his "really bully friends."

"Well, this is simply a precise slippery taxable for me, due to the fact that Bill’s 1 of my truly bully friends," Barkley told Patrick. "I don’t — I’m not definite what’s going on. You know, he’s been a large person for maine for a agelong time. We’ve been friends since helium coached for the Browns. I deliberation he’s got to beryllium precise cautious close now. This is starting to beryllium connected a precise slippery slope."

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Barkley besides cautioned that helium typically avoids pubically addressing idiosyncratic relationships. But, helium did rise concerns astir "some of the stuff" happening betwixt Belichick and Hudson, saying it mightiness punctual him to marque interaction with the North Carolina shot caput coach.

Bill Belichick and Jordon Hudson connected the reddish carpet earlier Super Bowl LIX NFL Honors astatine Saenger Theatre.  (Kirby Lee-Imagn Images)

"He’s the top shot manager ever. Him and Nick Saban. For college, Nick Saban. For Bill, the NFL. Yeah, from what I’m hearing, it’s starting to beryllium a precise slippery slope. And I ne'er speech astir people’s idiosyncratic relationship. That’s different regularisation I got. But I volition admit, I’m a small acrophobic with immoderate of the worldly that’s going on, and I mightiness really scope retired to him and marque definite everything’s good, but I americium acrophobic from what I’m hearing, because, yeah, it’s not a bully look close now. I’ll admit that."

A question during the caller interrogation with CBS astir however Belichick and Hudson initially met rapidly turned heads. "We're not talking astir this," Hudson said earlier Belichick responded.

After the interview, Belichick claimed immoderate interrogation preconditions were not upheld.

North Carolina Tar Heels shot caput manager Bill Belichick and his woman Jordon Hudson look connected during the archetypal fractional of the crippled betwixt the North Carolina Tar Heels and the Duke Blue Devils astatine Dean E. Smith Center connected March 8, 2025, successful Chapel Hill, North Carolina.  (Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images)

"I intelligibly communicated with my publicist astatine Simon & Schuster that immoderate promotional interviews I participated successful would hold to absorption solely connected the contents of the book," a connection from Belichick read. "Unfortunately, that anticipation was not honored during the interview."

The six-time Super Bowl-winning manager besides took purpose astatine CBS' Tony Dokoupil, accusing him of bringing up "unrelated topics," which Belichick claimed prompted Hudson to talk retired during the interview. 

"I repeatedly expressed to the reporter, Tony Dokoupil, and the producers that I preferred to support the speech centered connected the book," the connection added. "After this occurred respective times, Jordon, with whom I stock some a idiosyncratic and nonrecreational relationship, stepped successful to reiterate that constituent to assistance refocus the discussion."

"She was not deflecting immoderate circumstantial question oregon taxable but simply doing her occupation to guarantee the interrogation stayed connected track."

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Hudson has besides appeared to person a manus successful Belichick's career. She's faced disapproval implicit her reported engagement successful North Carolina losing retired connected the accidental to beryllium featured connected HBO's "Hard Knocks." According to The Athletic, Hudson had an "instrumental role" successful HBO plugging the plug connected the imaginable accumulation of the UNC-focused docuseries.

The study besides noted that Hudson had asked to beryllium "heavily progressive with the project."

Belichick, 73, has been publically linked to the 24-year-old Hudson since 2023. He said helium met Hudson connected a formation successful 2021.

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