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Just a few days after her alleged affair with New England Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel broke, an almost too-good-to-be-true story came out that Dianna Russini heroically intervened in a car crash to help one of the victims out of the wreck. As it turns out, it was too good to be true.
A few days after Dianna Russini resigned from The Athletic amid the Mike Vrabel scandal, a story emerged that she had heroically intervened in a car accident near her home in Wyckoff, New Jersey on April 15 — climbing an overturned Jeep to rescue the driver and their dog.
A second witness has come forward with an entirely different version of what happened when Dianna Russini came across a car wreck in New Jersey amid the Mike Vrabel scandal
Now, however, the New York Post has found a witness who has a much different and less Batwoman-esque story, as they say it was Russini’s husband who actually tore opened the roof of the overturned vehicle to rescue the driver. Russini’s role in the incident was holding the dog’s leash after it was removed from the Jeep, the witness said.
“That tipster said that — while Russini had indeed come into the street to help with the crash — it was in fact the tipster’s husband, not Russini, who had freed the driver and his dog by ripping open the canvas roof of the Jeep. The tipster added that Russini had merely held the dog’s leash after the pet had been released from the wreckage. And she insisted that Russini most certainly had not scaled the car.” [via The New York Post]
It goes without saying that holding a leash is significantly different than scaling an overturned Jeep and pulling human lives out of it. While the original story framed Russini as the hero of the rescue, the new witness account frames her husband as the hero and Russini as someone who was present and on dog duty.
The accident did occur on April 15, which was exactly one day after she resigned from The Athletic, which is certainly a bizarre instance of cosmic timing. And while Russini was actually at the scene, her actions once there have been disputed.