C’mon.. you know you can’t get enough news about Terrell Owens from the Dallas Morning News.
DALLAS James “Buddy” Primm, the personal trainer for Terrell Owens, said Thursday that the Cowboys’ wide receiver had relieved him of his services and was no longer speaking to him.
In a telephone conversation with The Dallas Morning News, Owens acknowledged as much and said Primm “had no business” discussing details of his private life with the news media.
Primm, 55, said Wednesday that Owens had been distraught over not being able to see his son, who celebrated his 7th birthday Monday. Then, hours later, he said, the receiver’s fiancee, a woman he had dated for three years, severed their engagement.“He shouldn’t have been telling you anything about my personal life anyway,” said Owens. “That’s where it stops right there. He should have never said anything remotely involving me or my personal life, especially my son or even my ex-girl.”
A resident of Georgia, where Owens makes his off-season home, Primm began working out the wideout seven years ago, when he played for the San Francisco 49ers.
He says he cares “deeply” for Owens and loves him “like a son,” one whose fatherless childhood took place in abject poverty in rural Alabama, where he was raised by his mother and grandmother. Owens apparently went for years without knowing that a man who lived on the same street was his father.
“The background that I’ve had,” Primm said Wednesday, “it’s enabled me to take a very special person who, if he stays within a structure, would be able to accomplish anything. I believe I’m one of the people who can help provide that structure.”
As for playing the role of a father figure, he said, “There’s never been one there. . . . My thing is helping other people. I enjoy that. I’m a Christian. It gives me a feeling of fulfillment. I like to do the best I can and be the very best at it.”
Primm calls his style “hands-on and personal.” Until recently, he had even been living with Owens at his newly purchased loft in the shadow of the Fair Park area. Owens said Primm was inexperienced in dealing with the news media.“He is a victim of what I have fallen victim to over the course of my career,” Owens said. “He shouldn’t have said anything about my personal life period. Now I really have to be guarded as far as who I talk to. If I can’t trust my own trainer, I can’t trust nobody.”
Let that be a message to my fellow personal trainers out there: Stay out of your clients’ personal business. And never talk about a client’s personal life to ANYone else.
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