Michael, 40, sits down with Bryant Gumbel on HBO’s “Real Sports” to discuss the allegations and bitter divorce battle with his ex,-wife  Jean Muggli, 46.  The former New York Giants star, 40, was said to beat Muggli repeatedly, cheat on her and is now ignoring their 8-year-old twin daughters, Sophia and Isabella.
 
The worst of it?” he tells Bryant. “I think early on when you’re reading all these things in the paper that aren’t true – I’m not an adulterer. I’m not gay. I mean, I didn’t beat anybody.”
 
Yes, during the nasty divorce battle, Jean, 40, accused Michael of having a gay affair with his friend and TV doctor Ian Smith. “Michael moved into Ian’s one-bedroom apartment,” Jean Strahan (pictured below) said back in 2006. “And you can say an alternative lifestyle sprouted.” Jean’s lawyer quickly stopped her before she could elaborate on her claims. Since then, the gay rumors have followed Michael around.
 
Michael filed for divorce after seven years of marriage after Jean withdrew a whopping $3.3 million dollars from the couple’s bank account.  Even though the abuse charges were dropped, his ex-wife still received a $15 million divorce settlement and $18,000 child support each month.
 
How can she make ends meet?
 
However, Michael keeps things in perspective, telling Bryant; “People don’t care, Everybody has their own problems … I just kept go on being myself and it worked.”