Michele Bundy Evans filed a $4 million defamation lawsuit against Sharpe for divulging their ongoing legal dispute on television after news broke that she filed a restraining order accusing him of sexual assault and stalking for the September 2010 incident, according to court documents obtained by The US Sun.

The Evans lawsuit has prompted Sharpe's legal team to issue another statement. "It should be of no surprise that when someone famous is in the news, all sorts of people crawl out

In her defamation suit, Evans, claimed that during an argument, the football legend forced his decade-old girlfriend to her knees and sexually assaulted her before raping her.